Face the Nation: Who Owns Facebook?

True or False? Bono owns Facebook.

The topic of Facebook's ownership came up not long ago in water cooler conversation and, after consulting almighty Google, we were admittedly a little surprised to see the list of stakeholders.

And then along came this awesome infographic.

So who's profiting from the behemoth social networking service that boasts 600 million+ monthly active users?

Noted in this chart:

• Facebook staff: 30%
  
• Co-founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg: 24%
• Co-founder Dustin Moskovitz: 6%
• Co-founder Eduardo Saverin: 5%
• Napster’s Sean Parker, Founding President of Facebook: 4%
• Digital Sky Technologies, a Russian investment firm: ~10%
• Goldman Sachs: ~0.8%
• Goldman Sachs’ clients: ~3%
• Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm: ~1.5%
• Meritech Capital Partners: ~1.5%
• Peter Thiel, PayPal co-founder and Clarium Capital president: ~3%
• Elevation Partners (yep, that includes U2's Bono among others): ~1.5%
• Other investors: ~9.7%

Other stakeholders not listed include Microsoft (1.6% stake) and Hong Kong billionaire Li-Ka Shing (0.8%).

Interesting infographic. And such pretty colors.