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发帖数: 10208 | 1 Eduardo Saverin, the Facebook Inc. (FB) co-founder who will become a
billionaire tomorrow after the world’s largest technology initial public
offering, said he never believed his $30,000 investment would go so far.
“Something I would’ve never imagined was when I put all my life savings
into the company, that it would have been an IPO at this level,” Saverin
said by phone from his home in Singapore. “You never imagine that $30,000
accumulated through your life, through gifts and birthday parties and other
events, and investing it in the company would create this type of returns.”
Saverin, 30, was part of a group of students at Harvard University who in
2004 started the social-networking site now used by more than 901 million
users. He renounced U.S. citizenship in September.
His stake may be worth $2.89 billion, based on the company’s 1.9 billion
total shares outstanding with the IPO. Facebook boosted the offering’s
price range to as much as $38 a share this week, indicating a market value
as high as $104 billion. The shares are set to price today and will begin
trading tomorrow under the symbol FB on the Nasdaq Stock Market.
Saverin owns about 4 percent of the company, according to whoownsfacebook.
com. He declined to discuss his percentage, the valuation, or how much tax
he will save by dropping U.S. citizenship, which according to a Bloomberg
analysis is at least $67 million. Singapore has no capital gains tax and
personal income taxes are a maximum 20 percent.
Zuckerberg, Prince Alwaleed
Co-founder Mark Zuckerberg could be worth more than $20 billion after the
IPO, giving him a fortune comparable to those of Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin
Talal and Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos, according to the Bloomberg
Billionaires Index. Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin is worth about $19.1
billion.
When the opening bell rings on the Nasdaq, Saverin will be celebrating at
home with “some very close friends” and speaking on the phone with his
parents and two siblings who still live in Miami, he said.
Saverin, who is a Brazilian national by birth and moved to the U.S. as a
child, became a U.S. citizen in 1998. He said he relocated to Singapore in
2009 because it’s an easy place to live, people speak English and it’s a
travel hub at the heart of rapidly growing Asia. The World Bank ranks
Singapore as the easiest place in the world to do business.
“I did not think once about my position related to tax savings,” he said.
“The whole idea that that was important to me or part of my consideration
is not accurate.” | d**i
发帖数: 9682 | 2 一般要兑现股票的时候，都会跑去新加坡。人真是命不同，一个本来就挺有钱的富家子
弟，庸才一个，但天上掉钱下来还真是挡也挡不住。 |
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