In late 2003, Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg asked a Harvard student named Eduardo Saverin, a junior, to deposit $15,000 in a bank account that would be accessible to both of them. The money, Mark promised, would go toward the servers needed to host a site that Mark wanted to develop.
Like the Winklevoss brothers, Eduardo Saverin clearly felt he got screwed by Mark Zuckerberg in Facebook's early days, and in one way, he did. We can tell from the previously unpublished letter included in this story that Zuckerberg didn't really want Saverin to notice his stake in Facebook was being diluted.
On January 7, 2005, Zuckerberg caused Facebook to issue 9 million shares of common stock in the new company. He took 3.3. million shares for himself and gave 2 million to Sean Parker and 2 million to Dustin Moskovitz. This share issuance instantly diluted Saverin's stake in the company from ~24% to below 10%. Mark's plan had succeeded.
In one IM to a friend, Zuckerberg described his new partner, Saverin, as the "head of the investment society." Saverin was rich, Zuckerberg went on to say, because "apparently insider trading isn't illegal in Brazil."
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In the end, the lawyer was right to worry. Saverin eventually sued Facebook over breach of fiduciary duty. Facebook and Saverin settled, and he walked away with 4% or 5% of the company. That stake is now worth close to $5 billion.
There was a deafening silence in the conference room. Mark Zuckerberg was being sued for "stealing" the very idea of Facebook. The people who were suing him were his seniors from Harvard - Divya Narendra, Cameron Winklevoss and his brother Tyler Winklevoss.
Law firm leaks CEO Mark Zuckerberg's settlement with fellow Harvard students. Facebook Inc. reportedly paid out $65 million to settle a lawsuit filed against it by the founders of ConnectU Inc.
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Facebook co-founder, Eduardo Saverin, no longer works at Facebook. He hasn't since 2005, when CEO Mark Zuckerberg diluted Saverin's stake in Facebook and then booted him from the company. Saverin's exit from Facebook was the central plot of "The Social Network."
The film is only "40% true", says David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World. "Zuckerberg is unbelievably confident and secure. And he is not snide and sarcastic in a cruel way, the way Zuckerberg is played in the movie," he says.
With this in mind, The Social Network isn't entirely accurate, although it does hold a significant amount of truth about the rise of the social media platform. Still, it's interesting to look into how the film differs from the real-life story; here is a rundown of the biggest changes made for the screen.
The Winklevoss twins' Bitcoin journey. Facebook settlement (2008): The twins reach a settlement with Zuckerberg for $65 million in a mix of Facebook shares and cash. They claimed he copied their idea and some of the code they'd paid him to create.
3.2 billion USD (2022)Cameron Winklevoss / Net worthCrypto entrepreneurs and brothers Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, each have an estimated $5 billion fortune thanks to their cryptocurrency investments and stakes in crypto exchange Gemini.
Previously, a famous lawsuit was settled between the popular billionaire twins, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The former has managed to win the legal war against the social media giant after Zuckerberg paid $65 million to settle the case.
Zuckerberg also partnered with Saverin because Saverin gave the impression he knew something about business. Saverin was the kind of guy who wore suits to class at Harvard, and he left people—including Zuckerberg—with the impression that he was connected to the Brazilian mafia.
It's also the story of how Zuckerberg solved an early problem at Facebook, one that could have potentially prevented the company from becoming the global behemoth it is today. The story is sourced from people involved in the founding year of Facebook, people close to Facebook, and documents viewed by Business Insider .
On October 31, 2004, Saverin signed a shareholder agreement that alloted him 3 million shares of common stock in the new company. In the agreement, he handed over all relevant intellectual property and turned over his voting rights to Mark Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg became Facebook's sole director.
On January 7, 2005, Zuckerberg caused Facebook to issue 9 million shares of common stock in the new company. He took 3.3. million shares for himself and gave 2 million to Sean Parker and 2 million to Dustin Moskovitz. This share issuance instantly diluted Saverin's stake in the company from ~24% to below 10%.
At one point, he reached out to Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss, and Divvya Narendra – the Harvard students who allege that Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea for the company in the first place. Eventually, sources say, Saverin decided to attack Zuckerberg's reputation.
But it's based on a true story. This is that story. This is the story of how Saverin got so angry at Zuckerberg—how, from Saverin's perspective, Zuckerberg screwed him out of a huge chunk of Facebook stock . It's also the story of how Zuckerberg solved an early problem at Facebook, one that could have potentially prevented ...
Copy Link. Facebook co-founder, Eduardo Saverin, no longer works at Facebook. He hasn't since 2005, when CEO Mark Zuckerberg diluted Saverin's stake in Facebook and then booted him from the company. Saverin's exit from Facebook was the central plot of "The Social Network .".
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