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Does anyone know why, as a Facebook employee, Mark Zuckerberg is not subject to the same 90-day lockup period for disposing of his shares on the public market as the rest of the employees?

EDIT: The lock-up period isn't an SEC requirement; it's an agreement made with the underwriters. The S-1 filing states:

"Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC may, in its sole discretion, permit our executive officers, our directors, and the selling stockholders to sell shares prior to the expiration of the restrictive provisions contained in the “lock-up” agreements with the underwriters."

And it looks like they let him do just that.




He's CEO, bitch? (sorry), but maybe other directors were allowed to as well? I imagine my first answer is sadly not far from the truth..




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