Check the chart posted by Felix Salmon of US equity listings and their steep decline post 1997. Pretty wild right? Consolidation within all sectors has surely contributed to the decline in public listings, as well as decreased margins of conducting business within the United States.... Do not get me started...
(TechCrunch writes) "Out of the 5 percent stockholders, the company’s largest shareholder is LinkedIn’s founder and chairman Reid Hoffman and his wife Michelle Yee, owning 19 million shares or 21.4 percent of the company. He’s followed by Sequoia Capital (16.8 million shares or 18.9 percent), Greylock Partners (14 million shares or 15.8 percent) and Bessemer Venture Partners (4.6 million shares or 5.1 percent).
Seqouia was LinkedIn’s earliest investor in 2003, followed by Greylock in 2004. Bessemer participated in LinkedIn’s three later rounds in 2007 and 2008."
Now we know who is going to have a party once they begin trading Linkedin's and facebook shares......
