Twitter finally released its official IPO filing, revealing who its major shareholders are–and giving some idea of how much those stakes are worth.

Ev Williams’s 12% stake is extremely lucrative on paper. Getty Images
One big winner: Co-founder Evan Williams, whose 12% stake makes him a billionaire–at least on paper. The shares held by Twitter’s co-founder and largest shareholder are worth about $1.08 billion, according to the $9 billion valuation the company reportedly attained in private sales of its stock.
Co-founder Jack Dorsey’s 4.9% stake comes to about $450 million.
Major venture capital shareholders include the investment duo of Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures, who already scored a big win this year when Yahoo bought blogging service Tumblr for $1.1 billion.
The two firms are listed in the filing among the six investors who hold stakes of 5% or more. The others are venture firm Benchmark Capital and two later investors, private equity firms DST Global and Rizvi Traverse.
Twitter has yet to put a price on its offering, but at the $9 billion valuation, a 5% stake would be worth $450 million–the same size as the venture fund Spark closed earlier this year.
Benchmark’s 6.7% stake is the only one specifically listed because one of its partners, Peter Fenton, is a Twitter director. That stake includes some stock he holds personally. The value of that stake would be about $603 million.
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It's a bad idea for twiiter to go this way, they should look at what happend to Facebook.

n what happend to facebook?

Negro1: n what happend to facebook?

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