Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1Larry EllisonLarry EllisonBorn 17 Aug 1944Oracle's September 2025 proxy recorded Ellison's beneficial holding at 40.6% of its ordinary shares. Retention was only part of the story: Oracle reported reducing its outstanding share count by 35% through repurchases between the start of its 2016 financial year and the end of 2025. A founder's…0i
  2. 2Mark ZuckerbergMark ZuckerbergBorn 14 May 1984Meta's April 2025 disclosure showed Zuckerberg retaining roughly 14% of its shares through his holdings and associated vehicles, with about 61% of the votes. The gap comes from ten-vote Class B stock. Outside shareholders supplied capital and shared in the company's economic results, while the…0i
  3. 3Michael DellMichael DellBorn 23 Feb 1965Michael Dell's disclosed holding was 41.4% of all Dell Technologies common stock on 30 April 2025. That position followed a substantial restructuring of ownership: he partnered with Silver Lake to take Dell private in 2013, before the business returned to public trading. His case concerns buying…0i
  4. 4Daniel EkDaniel EkBorn 21 Feb 1983At the end of 2024, Ek's wholly owned investment vehicle held about 12.5 million Spotify shares, roughly 6.1% of the company. The much larger 14.3% beneficial-ownership figure also included shares over which he held voting proxies for Tencent-related holders. Spotify's 2018 direct listing had…0i
  5. 5Martin LorentzonMartin LorentzonBorn 1 Apr 1969Lorentzon retained about 20 million Spotify ordinary shares through his investment structure at the end of 2024, roughly 9.8% of the company. His disclosed voting power was 41.6%, boosted by beneficiary certificates that carried votes but no economic rights. Alongside Ek, he had taken a company…0i
  6. 6Brian CheskyBrian CheskyAirbnb attributed about 67.2 million Class A and B shares to Chesky on 7 April 2025, a little over a tenth of its outstanding common shares. Those holdings, including estate-planning trusts, carried 30.5% of the votes because Class B shares had twenty votes each. Public trading and a large founder…0i
  7. 7Brian Armstrong (businessman)Brian Armstrong (businessman)Born 25 Jan 1983Coinbase's March 2025 disclosure identified 24.1 million Class B shares in Armstrong's living trust. Its larger beneficial-ownership total also included exercisable options and shares of another trust for which he was trustee. Twenty votes per Class B share gave his reported holdings 50.2% of…0i
  8. 8Dustin MoskovitzDustin MoskovitzBorn 22 May 1984Moskovitz reinforced his Asana stake by putting more money into the business, including a $350 million purchase of newly issued shares in 2022. His August 2025 filing listed 56.9 million Class A shares held personally, alongside Class B stock and trust holdings. This was active concentration of…0i
  9. 9Evan SpiegelEvan SpiegelBorn 4 Jun 1990Snap reported roughly 169 million shares across its three classes for Spiegel at the end of 2024, including trust holdings. The economic block remained sizeable after the flotation, while high-vote Class C shares gave him 53.1% of total voting power. Snap's publicly traded Class A shares had no…0i
  10. 10Bobby MurphyBobby MurphyBorn 19 Jul 1988Murphy's disclosed Snap holdings totalled roughly 181 million shares across three classes on 31 December 2024. Although that was more shares than Spiegel's reported total, Murphy held 46.4% of the votes because the founders' mix of share classes differed. The co-founder's continuing financial…0i