
• 亿万富翁彼得·蒂尔是脸书的首位外部投资者,他可能对过早套现感到后悔。在这家科技公司首次公开募股仅数月后,他便以每股20美元的价格抛售数百万股股票,套现4亿美元;而如今该股股价已飙升至当初的37倍,这意味着他本有机会多赚150亿美元。
投资是一场风险与回报的博弈。若判断正确,你可能积累数十亿财富;若判断失误,一切都可能化为乌有。
对于贝宝联合创始人彼得·蒂尔而言,成为脸书首位外部投资者无疑是一次极为成功的抉择——但他或许会因抛售所持股份而心生懊悔。
这位科技企业家在2004年,即脸书创立仅数月时,首次投入50万美元,购入该公司10%的股份,彼时公司估值约为490万美元。近十年后,在2012年5月该公司首次公开募股后,蒂尔决定套现。他出售了约2010万股股票(占其所持股份的绝大部分),每股价格在19.27美元至20.69美元之间,当时套现约4亿美元。
倘若他一直持有这些股票直至今日,其价值将达到约147.6亿美元(截至撰写本文时,Meta的股价为736美元),这一决策或许会让这位硅谷最精明的投资者之一感到遗憾。
他当初为何会选择投资呢?他认为大学市场——即脸书最初的受众群体——被严重低估。
“我认为投资者总是倾向于投资自己使用的产品,而低估那些自己不使用的产品,因此,很少有投资者会关注大学市场。”他在2015年接受《This Week in Startups》采访时表示。
《财富》杂志已联系蒂尔寻求置评。
脸书是亿万富翁的摇篮
尽管他出售了公司的大部分股份,但这位57岁的投资者多年来仍深度参与公司事务,直至2022年才退出董事会。
“彼得一直是公司董事会的重要成员,我由衷感谢他为公司所做的一切——从几乎不被外界看好时给予信任,到在商业、经济及世界格局等方面给予我诸多教诲。”脸书联合创始人兼首席执行官马克·扎克伯格(Mark Zuckerberg)在蒂尔卸任时说道。
据彭博社报道,目前蒂尔的净资产约为217亿美元,这在一定程度上得益于他作为贝宝和帕兰提尔(Palantir)联合创始人所获得的数十亿美元收益。
他并非唯一一位因脸书成功而获益的投资者;这家社交网络的蓬勃发展已造就无数百万富翁——以及多位亿万富翁。
诚然,从财务角度看,无人能比扎克伯格获益更为丰厚。据彭博社报道,他目前位列全球第二大富豪,净资产估计达2600亿美元。事实上,今年,他的财富增长幅度超过其他任何一位亿万富翁,年初至今已增长528亿美元。
不过,该公司鲜为人知的联合创始人也已跻身亿万富翁行列,包括达斯汀·莫斯科维茨(Dustin Moskovitz,114亿美元)、爱德华多·萨维林(Eduardo Saverin,400亿美元),以及前首席运营官雪莉·桑德伯格(Sheryl Sandberg,25亿美元)和前总裁肖恩·帕克(Sean Parker,30亿美元)。
错误的时机,错误的抛售
尽管蒂尔可能会为2012年的抛售感到后悔,但与苹果(Apple)第三位联合创始人罗纳德·韦恩(Ronald Wayne)过早退出的情况相比,这或许不值一提。
在合同签署仅12天后,韦恩便以800美元的价格出售了自己在这家电脑公司10%的股份。鉴于苹果公司如今市值高达3万亿美元,他原本持有的10%股份如今价值可能在750亿至3000亿美元之间(不过,由于新投资者加入和公开上市,他的股份很可能已被稀释)。
尽管韦恩曾表示,当时对此毫无遗憾,因为他认为自己终有一天只会是“墓地里最富有的人”,但他后来承认,若能不为钱财忧心自然更好。为了维持生计,他靠出租部分房产以及每月领取社会保障金度日。
“我从未大富大贵,却也从未忍饥挨饿。”他在接受《商业内幕》采访时说道。(*)
译者:中慧言-王芳
• 亿万富翁彼得·蒂尔是脸书的首位外部投资者,他可能对过早套现感到后悔。在这家科技公司首次公开募股仅数月后,他便以每股20美元的价格抛售数百万股股票,套现4亿美元;而如今该股股价已飙升至当初的37倍,这意味着他本有机会多赚150亿美元。
投资是一场风险与回报的博弈。若判断正确,你可能积累数十亿财富;若判断失误,一切都可能化为乌有。
对于贝宝联合创始人彼得·蒂尔而言,成为脸书首位外部投资者无疑是一次极为成功的抉择——但他或许会因抛售所持股份而心生懊悔。
这位科技企业家在2004年,即脸书创立仅数月时,首次投入50万美元,购入该公司10%的股份,彼时公司估值约为490万美元。近十年后,在2012年5月该公司首次公开募股后,蒂尔决定套现。他出售了约2010万股股票(占其所持股份的绝大部分),每股价格在19.27美元至20.69美元之间,当时套现约4亿美元。
倘若他一直持有这些股票直至今日,其价值将达到约147.6亿美元(截至撰写本文时,Meta的股价为736美元),这一决策或许会让这位硅谷最精明的投资者之一感到遗憾。
他当初为何会选择投资呢?他认为大学市场——即脸书最初的受众群体——被严重低估。
“我认为投资者总是倾向于投资自己使用的产品,而低估那些自己不使用的产品,因此,很少有投资者会关注大学市场。”他在2015年接受《This Week in Startups》采访时表示。
《财富》杂志已联系蒂尔寻求置评。
脸书是亿万富翁的摇篮
尽管他出售了公司的大部分股份,但这位57岁的投资者多年来仍深度参与公司事务,直至2022年才退出董事会。
“彼得一直是公司董事会的重要成员,我由衷感谢他为公司所做的一切——从几乎不被外界看好时给予信任,到在商业、经济及世界格局等方面给予我诸多教诲。”脸书联合创始人兼首席执行官马克·扎克伯格(Mark Zuckerberg)在蒂尔卸任时说道。
据彭博社报道,目前蒂尔的净资产约为217亿美元,这在一定程度上得益于他作为贝宝和帕兰提尔(Palantir)联合创始人所获得的数十亿美元收益。
他并非唯一一位因脸书成功而获益的投资者;这家社交网络的蓬勃发展已造就无数百万富翁——以及多位亿万富翁。
诚然,从财务角度看,无人能比扎克伯格获益更为丰厚。据彭博社报道,他目前位列全球第二大富豪,净资产估计达2600亿美元。事实上,今年,他的财富增长幅度超过其他任何一位亿万富翁,年初至今已增长528亿美元。
不过,该公司鲜为人知的联合创始人也已跻身亿万富翁行列,包括达斯汀·莫斯科维茨(Dustin Moskovitz,114亿美元)、爱德华多·萨维林(Eduardo Saverin,400亿美元),以及前首席运营官雪莉·桑德伯格(Sheryl Sandberg,25亿美元)和前总裁肖恩·帕克(Sean Parker,30亿美元)。
错误的时机,错误的抛售
尽管蒂尔可能会为2012年的抛售感到后悔,但与苹果(Apple)第三位联合创始人罗纳德·韦恩(Ronald Wayne)过早退出的情况相比,这或许不值一提。
在合同签署仅12天后,韦恩便以800美元的价格出售了自己在这家电脑公司10%的股份。鉴于苹果公司如今市值高达3万亿美元,他原本持有的10%股份如今价值可能在750亿至3000亿美元之间(不过,由于新投资者加入和公开上市,他的股份很可能已被稀释)。
尽管韦恩曾表示,当时对此毫无遗憾,因为他认为自己终有一天只会是“墓地里最富有的人”,但他后来承认,若能不为钱财忧心自然更好。为了维持生计,他靠出租部分房产以及每月领取社会保障金度日。
“我从未大富大贵,却也从未忍饥挨饿。”他在接受《商业内幕》采访时说道。(*)
译者:中慧言-王芳
• Billionaire Peter Thiel was Facebook’s first outside investor, but he may now have regrets for how soon he cashed out. Just months after the tech company’s IPO, he sold millions of shares for $20 each for a sum of $400 million; with the stock now worth 37 times more, he could have been $15 billion richer today.
Investing is a game of risk and reward. Get it right, and you could build a billion-dollar fortune. Get it wrong, and it might all go up in smoke.
For PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, being the first outside Facebook investor was hardly a bust—but there may be some seller’s remorse.
The tech entrepreneur first coughed up $500,000 in 2004 for a 10% stake in the company, just months into its creation—giving it a value of about $4.9 million. Nearly a decade later, following the company’s May 2012 IPO, Thiel decided it was time to cash out. Thiel sold about 20.1 million shares in the company—a majority of his stake—for $19.27 to $20.69 each, netting him about $400 million at the time.
Had he held his shares until today, they would be worth about $14.76 billion (Meta’s stock price is $736 at the time of writing), a decision that may haunt even one of Silicon Valley’s savviest investors.
What led him to invest in the first place? He believed the college market—which was Facebook’s original audience—had been underestimated.
“I think investors always have a bias to invest in things they themselves use and they undervalue things they don’t use so there aren’t many investors who are in college,” he said to This Week in Startups in 2015.
Fortune reached out to Thiel for comment.
Facebook is a billionaire farm
Despite selling a majority of his stake in the company, the 57-year-old remained heavily involved for many years, serving on the board until 2022.
“Peter has been a valuable member of our board and I’m deeply grateful for everything he has done for our company—from believing in us when few others would, to teaching me so many lessons about business, economics, and the world,” Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the time of Thiel’s stepping down.
Today, Thiel’s net worth sits at about $21.7 billion, according to Bloomberg, thanks in part to the billions he made from being the cofounder of PayPal and Palantir.
And he’s not the only investor to have thrived off the success of Facebook; the social network’s growth has created countless millionaires—and multiple billionaires.
Of course, no one has benefited more financially than Zuckerberg, who is currently the second-richest person in the world, according to Bloomberg, with an estimated net worth of $260 billion. In fact, his worth has increased more than any other billionaire this year, with a year-to-date growth of $52.8 billion.
But the company’s lesser-known cofounders have also joined the billionaire club, including Dustin Moskovitz ($11.4 billion) and Eduardo Saverin ($40 billion), as well as former COO Sheryl Sandberg ($2.5 billion) and former president Sean Parker ($3 billion).
The wrong sale at the wrong time
While it’s possible Thiel regrets selling in 2012, nothing might dwarf the early pullout from Apple’s third cofounder, Ronald Wayne.
He cashed out his 10% stake in the computer company for $800 just 12 days after signing the contract. Wayne’s share could now be worth between $75 billion and $300 billion, thanks to the company’s current $3 trillion market cap (his shares would have likely been diluted thanks to new investors and public offering).
And while Wayne has said he had no regrets at the time since he figured he would one day just be the “richest man in the cemetery,” he’s since admitted it would’ve been nice not to worry about money. To make ends meet, he’s relied on renting out part of his property, as well as cashing his monthly Social Security check.
“I’ve never been rich, but I’ve never been hungry either,” he told Business Insider.