Major Facebook Investors Cash Out
The Samwer Brothers have sold their Facebook stake, which has grown to about three-and-a-half times the value the shares held at the time the German entrepreneurial trio bought in, when company had a valuation of $15 billion in 2008.
The Samwer brothers have sold their Facebook stake, which has grown to about three-and-a-half times the value the shares held at the time the German entrepreneurial trio bought in, when company had a valuation of $15 billion in 2008.
News of the sale first appeared in a German publication called Deutsche Startups, which said that the size of the original investment was “significant,” but smaller than the size of Microsoft’s 1.6 percent stake in Facebook.
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