Whatsapp sold to Facebook New 2019
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Herman Syah
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Thursday, January 2, 2020
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Facebook Buys Whatsapp
So our asked Equilar, a company that specializes in analyzing exec compensation and also company information, to help us take a look at all the Stocks as well as Exchange Payment filings related to Koum's sales for 2016.
Whatsapp Sold To Facebook
It ends up he's sold more than 22 million shares worth roughly $2.8 billion considering that January.
Facebook accepted buy WhatsApp in February 2014 for over $19 billion in supply, and the price had actually risen to $22 billion by October, when the bargain closed, thanks to Facebook's climbing supply cost. Koum had about 45% of the firm when he sold it, Forbes estimates, which suggests his take on paper was about $10 billion. He additionally obtained a seat on Facebook's board.
At the end of 2015, according to Facebook's yearly proxy declaring, Koum owned over 60 million shares of common stock. He additionally had an additional 19 million restricted supply units, which vest with time as well as work as a motivation for him to stick around up until November 2018.
Based on that vesting timetable, it looks like he's made about 3 million of those RSUs until now this year.
So generally, he's marketed regarding one-third of his present risk in Facebook this year.
Koum's supply sales come as WhatsApp continues to grow rapidly and also as the business is making changes to the service that can open up brand-new moneymaking opportunities, yet likewise runs the risk of estranging some individuals.
On Thursday, Facebook introduced that WhatsApp was altering its personal privacy plan for the very first time given that the procurement to enable Facebook to see the telephone number that a user shares when they register for WhatsApp. Facebook can utilize this information to allow organisations to call individuals directly through WhatsApp, as they can already do with Messenger, and also will certainly allow Facebook to show even more relevant ads to logged-in users. Nevertheless, WhatsApp said it would certainly not share these telephone number directly with users.
WhatsApp passed more than than 1 billion regular monthly individuals in February as well as is one of the most preferred chat app in majority of the globe, according to current stats from SimilarWeb.
Facebook had no talk about the sales, as it does not comment on individuals' financial investment decisions.