| Individual | | Shares | | Worth | | vote % |
| CEO Andrew D. Mason | | 46,934,488 | | $1,220,296,688 | | 19% |
| Former CTO Kenneth M. Pelletier | | 2,698,944 | | $70,172,544 | | |
| Former COO Robert S. Solomon | | 4,055,000 | | $105,430,000 | | |
| Brian K. Totty | | 624,786 | | $16,244,436 | | |
| Board member Mellody Hobson | | 10,000 | | $260,000 | | |
| Co-founder Bradley A. Keywell | | 624,786 | | $1,071,850,988 | | 10.2% |
| Lightbank VC Eric P. Lefkofsky | | 129,239,408 | | $3,360,224,608 | | 28.1% |
| Board member Theodore J. Leonsis | | 1,848,770 | | $48,068,020 | | |
| Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz | | 1,899,336 | | $49,382,736 | | |
| New Enterprise Associates, Inc | | 87,453,072 | | $2,273,779,872 | | 8.8% |
| Accel Growth Fund L.P. | | 33,203,928 | | $863,302,128 | | 3.4% |
| MyCityDeal's Oliver & Marc Samwer | | 39,168,960 | | $1,018,392,960 | | 4% |
After going from selling slippers with flashlights (http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/30/groupon-was-almost-a-slippers-with-flashlights-company/) to being a 10,000 employee-strong business in three years, Groupon had its initial public offering today, (http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/04/groupon-ipo-shares-pop-40-on-first-trade-debuts-at-17-8b-market-cap/) to much fanfare and well, the opposite reaction. The offering was priced at $20 and experienced an exuberant opening pop of $28, which after a day of trading settled down a bit to close at $26.
While Groupon's co-founders and high-level executives notoriously took hundreds of millions (http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/30/groupon-insiders-345-million/)off the table in an earlier round of funding, they still had notable skin in the game today, as evidenced by the share allocation on Groupon's latest S-1 (http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1490281/000104746911008207/a2205238zs-1a.htm#ei79801_principal_and_selling_stockholders). Biggest winner? Lightbank founder Eric Lefkosky (http://www.crunchbase.com/person/eric-lefkofsky), who is now a billionaire three times over with a solid 28.1% voting share. CEO Andrew Mason (http://www.crunchbase.com/person/andrew-mason), by comparison, is now worth $1.2 billion in Groupon stock.
VC firm Accel Partners (http://www.accel.com/) and the Samwer brothers are also in enviable positions post IPO, each netting about a billion in Groupon equity for their troubles. It's probably safe to say that just about everyone on this list is on a customary six month lockout with regards to selling their shares, and God only knows what the stock will be trading at then.
While we all wait, here's a video of Mason and I back when he
was cool wasn't such a fancypants. [Hi Andrew ]
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Company: Groupon (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/groupon) Website: groupon.com (http://www.groupon.com) Launch Date: November 11, 2008 Funding: $1.14B Groupon features a daily deal on the best stuff to do, see, eat, and buy in more than 565 cities around the world. By promising businesses a minimum number of customers, Groupon can offer deals that aren't available elsewhere. Groupon brings buyers and sellers together in a fun and collaborative way that offers the consumer an unbeatable deal, and businesses a large number of new customers. To date, it has saved consumers more than $300 million and claims it...
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