Mark Zuckerberg Keeping His Facebook Shares For At Least A Year

Early major investor Peter Thiel has dumped much of his Facebook stock, as have Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz, Accel Partners, and Microsoft. Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has the ability to unload some of his roughly 500 million shares in October, but according to recent Securities and Exchange Commission filings, he won't do that for at least 12 months.

Early major investor Peter Thiel has dumped much of his Facebook stock, as have Co-Founder Dustin Moskovitz, Accel Partners, and Microsoft. Co-Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has the ability to unload some of his roughly 500 million shares in October, but according to recent Securities and Exchange Commission filings, he won’t do that for at least 12 months.

Zuckerberg, who has seen his own personal fortune drop along with Facebook’s stock value, claimed in the SEC 8-K report (a general notice to shareholders) that he doesn’t plan to sell anything in the near future.

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