Evan Williams, co-founder of Twitter (flickr.com / Julie Blaustein)
Twitter officially filed a public stock offering (IPO) to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to offer U.S. $ 1 billion, equivalent to Rp11,4 trillion.
140 character micro-blogging site that peg the value of its U.S. $ 20.62 per share. Twitter also will offer as many as 427.6 million shares at the initial stage.
If the IPO process was running smoothly, launch DNA India,October 9, 2013, you can bet that Twitter co-founder Evan Williams has led the company since its establishment in 2010, as well as the day's biggest shareholder, will become a new billionaire in the age to 41 years.
William has a Twitter share as much as 12 percent. If the stock per share Twitter behavior of U.S. $ 20.62, then if totalized Williams shares will be worth U.S. $ 1.2 billion, equivalent to Rp13,8 trillion. Fantastic.
To note, Williams joined Twitter in 2005, after he resigned from the corporate giant, Google Inc.. Although Williams is now no longer the CEO of Twitter because it was replaced by Dick Costolo in 2010, but as a pioneer, Williams still occupy the throne of directors of the company.
Indeed, many shareholders Twitter is getting ready to get rich after the IPO occurs. For example, the current CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo has a 1.6 percent stake in Twitter.
Approximately 2,000 employees of Twitter also has the potential to become rich. However, reportedly, they are not allowed to sell their shares until 15 February 2014. (Np)
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