Elon Musk Owned 30% of Tesla at IPO and He Was Not a Founder

The "other shareholders" category is frustrating, because I'm pretty sure it contains some pretty large shareholders (presumably just below the threshold to be listed individually). Google lists Ram Shriram, but the other 3 initial angel investors (Andy Bechtolsteim, David Cheriton, and Jeff Bezos) don't appear, even though Andy & David were the ones who convinced Larry & Sergey that it could be a giant company instead of just a doctoral thesis. Stanford also owned over $1B in Google shares at IPO, but that's not reflected in the graph. Facebook had 5 founders; Zuckerburg and Dustin Moskovitz appear, Eduardo Saverin was diluted out, but what about the other 2? None of Tesla's actual founders appear; they're all just lumped in as "other shareholders".

Re: Elon Musk Owned 30% of Tesla at IPO and He Was Not a Founder

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Post by nostrademons » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 11:15 PM UTC

darian314 wrote: post #3

AbdulMohammad wrote: post #2

Fascinating to see all these S1’s visually

Yeah what happened to PayPal? What a crazy cap table.

Merger of 2 existing companies, both of which had undergone multiple pivots and brought their own VCs and angel investors to the table.

Re: Elon Musk Owned 30% of Tesla at IPO and He Was Not a Founder

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Post by darian314 » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 11:16 PM UTC

nostrademons wrote: post #5

darian314 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah what happened to PayPal? What a crazy cap table.

Merger of 2 existing companies, both of which had undergone multiple pivots and brought their own VCs and angel investors to the table.

Makes sense

Re: Elon Musk Owned 30% of Tesla at IPO and He Was Not a Founder

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Post by darian314 » Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 11:17 PM UTC

nostrademons wrote: post #4

AbdulMohammad wrote: post #2

Fascinating to see all these S1’s visually

The "other shareholders" category is frustrating, because I'm pretty sure it contains some pretty large shareholders (presumably just below the threshold to be listed individually). Google lists Ram Shriram, but the other 3 initial angel investors (Andy Bechtolsteim, David Cheriton, and Jeff Bezos) don't appear, even though Andy & David were the ones who convinced Larry & Sergey that it could be a giant company inste…

Yeah unfortunately I looked at the source for each of these and the S-1's themselves don't detail those numbers. Maybe we'll never know...

Re: Elon Musk Owned 30% of Tesla at IPO and He Was Not a Founder

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Post by jesserenton » Thu, Apr 18, 2019, 8:52 PM UTC

Sequoia Capital did well on Zoom (IPOed today), apparently: https://grph.com/d/mzo1W9QP4Mk