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These People Just Got Filthy Rich From The LinkedIn IPO

By Alyson Shontell
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Ellen Levy and Reid Hoffman both made millions (and billions) of dollars today.   Ross Mayfield via Flickr

LinkedIn might have gotten screwed out of $130 million, but the early members all did pretty well for themselves.

About 30 people became millionaires today, and a few became billionaires.

We looked through the most recent SEC filing to see how much everyone's shares are worth.

20. Steven Beitzel: ~ $29 million

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*Image not available

Number of shares pre-offering: 290,000

Percent of total shares: Less than 1%

What they're worth*: $29,000,000

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

19. Erika Rottenberg (VP, General Counsel & Secretary): ~ $32 million

erika rottenberg linkedin
LinkedIn

Number of shares pre-offering: 323,275

Percent of total shares: Less than 1%

What they're worth*: $32,327,500

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

18. David Henke (SVP Operations and Engineering): ~ $34 million

david henke linkedin
LinkedIn

Number of shares pre-offering: 336,458

Percent of total shares: Less than 1%

What they're worth*: $33,645,800

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

17. Agiladevi Ramanathan (Principal DBA): ~ $36 million

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Number of shares pre-offering: 363,917

Percent of total shares: Less than 1%

What they're worth*: $36,391,700

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

16. Ian McNish (Principal Systems Architect and member of founding team): $37 million

ian mcnish linkedin
LinkedIn

Number of shares pre-offering: 373,000

Percent of total shares: Less than 1%

What they're worth*: $37,300,000

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

15. Patrick Crane (former VP Marketing): ~ $38 million

patrick crane linkedin

Number of shares pre-offering: 381,226

Percent of total shares: Less than 1%

What they're worth*: $38,122,600

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

14. The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc: ~ $43.6 million

Mcgraw hill

Number of shares pre-offering: 435,920

Percent of total shares: Less than 1%

What they're worth*: $43,592,000

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

13. Ellen Levy (VP Strategic Initiatives): ~ $45 million

ellen levy linkedin

Number of shares pre-offering: 450,000

Percent of total shares: Less than 1%

What they're worth*: $45,000,000

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

12. Dipchand "Deep" Nishar (Xoogler, VP of Product Strategy): ~ $50 million

Deep Nishar LinkedIn
Linkedin

Number of shares pre-offering: 498,958

Percent of total shares: Less than 1%

What they're worth*: $49,895,800

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

11. Yan Pujante (software engineer and member of founding team): ~ $79 million

Yan Pujante LinkedIn
Linkedin

Number of shares pre-offering: 785,250

Percent of total shares: Less than 1%

What they're worth*: $78,525,000

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

10. Goldman, Sachs & Co: ~ $87 Million

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goldman building during the snow storm BI camera

Number of shares pre-offering: 871,840

Percent of total shares: Less than 1%

What they're worth*: $87,184,000

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

9. Konstantin Guericke (VP of Marketing): ~ $90 million

Konstantin Guericke LinkedIn
Zurb

Number of shares pre-offering: 901,000

Percent of total shares: 1%

What they're worth*: $90,100,000

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

8. Steven Sordello (CFO): ~ $91 million

Steve Sordello LinkedIn
Facebook

Number of shares pre-offering: 907,327

Percent of total shares: 1%

What they're worth*: $90,732,700

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

7. Eric Ly (co-founder and former CTO): ~ $136 million

Eric Ly LinkedIn Presdo
Crunchbase

Number of shares pre-offering: 1,365,750

Percent of total shares: 1.5%

What they're worth*: $136,575,000

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

6. Jeffrey Weiner (CEO): ~ $203 million

jeff weiner

Number of shares pre-offering: 2,322,726

Percent of total shares: 2.5%

What they're worth*: $203,079,972

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

5. Bain Capital Venture Integral Investors: ~ $370 million

Bain Capital
Bain

Number of shares pre-offering: 3,705,318

Percent of total shares: Less than 1%

What they're worth*: $370,531,800

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

4. Bessemer Venture Partners: ~ $458 million

Bessemer Venture Partners

Number of shares pre-offering: 4,578,253

Percent of total shares: 5.1%

What they're worth*: $457,825,300

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

3. David Sze (Greylock Partners): ~ $1.4 billion

David Sze Greylock
David Sze was cofounder of Brience and is now a partner at Greylock.

Number of shares pre-offering: 14,047,978

Percent of total shares: 15.6%

What they're worth*: $1,404,797,800

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

2. Michael Moritz (Sequoia Capital): ~ $1.7 billion

Michael Moritz
Wharton

Number of shares pre-offering: 16,840,309

Percent of total shares: 18.7%

What they're worth*: $1,684,030,900

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

1. Reid Hoffman: ~ $1.9 billion

Reid Hoffman
LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman wins big.

Number of shares pre-offering: 19,066,032

Percent of total shares: 21.2%

What they're worth*: $1,906,603,200

*Assuming stock trades at $100 per share

Now check out the people who will get rich when Facebook IPOs:

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Alyson is the Editor-in-Chief and CCO at Fortune.  She was previously a co Editor-in-Chief overseeing Business Insider's tech and business coverage.She joined Business Insider in July 2008 as the company's sixth employee. She started as a sales planner before joining the editorial team in 2010, where she became a startup reporter and was first to cover some of today's largest tech companies, including Pinterest, Tinder, Instagram, Uber and Snap. Alyson rose to become a senior correspondent, then Executive Editor.She was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Business Insider in 2016, at which point she became the youngest and only woman to run a global business publication. Under her leadership, the business division has grown to hundreds of  millions of monthly readers.Alyson was a host of  Insider's conferences and launched a podcast, "Success! How I Did It," where she interviewed influencers ranging from Sheryl Sandberg to Steve Ballmer about their career paths (subscribe on iTunes here).She has appeared on ABC, Good Morning America, Al Jazeera, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, and CBC, and she has interviewed media personalities such as Megyn Kelly, technology leaders like Fred Wilson, political leaders like John Brennan, and sports star LeBron James. She is a judge for the prestigious Gerald Loeb Awards in business journalism, and has been named one of Min's Rising Stars in Media, as well as Folio's 2017 Top Women in Media.She graduated from Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she majored in psychology and advertising.You can read some of her investigative articles here:— Leaked videos reveal the true founding story of Snapchat— The founder who dumped Jared Kushner: Inside the phone call that left the White House star in a fit of rage— The downfall of billion-dollar startup, Fab— How a startup that raised the largest seed round in Silicon Valley history blew itself up before it even launched— The dark side of Facebook, where people lie, cheat, and make millions— A profile of Uber's controversial CEO, Travis Kalanick— The mystery of Jody Sherman, a founder who was driven to suicide and left behind a shocking business disasterDisclosure: Alyson owns bitcoin and Snap. She is also an investor in The Spun, a sports-media startup founded by her husband.
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