Yesterday, Facebook bought messaging app WhatsApp for $19 billion — $12 billion in stock, $4 billion in cash, and another $3 billion in stock grants for employees that will vest over the next four years.
How much will WhatsApp’s employees make in the deal?
We don’t that how that $3 billion will be divided.
We do know the $12 billion in cash and $4 billion in cash will be divided among Whatsapp owners.
Whatsapp employees own a piece of the company.
How much?
Forbes’s Parmy Olson reports: “Early employees are said to have comparatively large equity shares of close to 1%.”
Ready to have your mind blown?
1% of $16 billion is…
…$160 million.
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