paper millionaire

Facebook has only 3,200 employees, many of whom will now become paper millionaires.

When it first came to market, some 50 individuals within the services group became paper millionaires — that has now stretched to more than 200.

There have been estimates that 1,000 current and former employees could become paper millionaires when the company goes public.

Dozens of early employees have become paper millionaires through stock options.

But we both know that we've gone from being paper millionaires to near insolvents.

We have created hundreds of paper millionaires and quite a few billionaires.

The excesses of the late 1990s technology boom created paper millionaires based on unlikely ideas.

More than one-third of Facebook's 3,000 employees could be paper millionaires when the stock floats.

Like many of his colleagues at the interactive-television software company, the 31-year-old Flynn became a paper millionaire.

Even Japan's new class of paper millionaires, its owners of small homes, are unhappy.

I was a paper millionaire for about three days, and then I was sleeping on my dad's couch.

Some of its executives were paper millionaires.

Many of Google's employees became instant paper millionaires.

The three founding directors became paper millionaires.

Forty of the company's 170 employees also became paper millionaires, Mr. Litwack said.

Presumably the mood will be that much more buoyant at this annual affair, with so many Google employees now paper millionaires.

Reasons ranged from shareholder pressure for employee benefit reductions to the fact that many company executives would become instant paper millionaires.

The computer's potential briefly made Mr. Friedman, once the company's biggest stockholder, a paper millionaire several times over.

I was a paper millionaire again and the BBC followed my every move for eight months for its Trouble at the Top series.

LinkedIn had a bonanza initial public offering in May, when its stock price doubled and many of its employees became paper millionaires.

The vast majority of the 271 million shares remained under the control of Google, and many Google employees became instant paper millionaires.

"There's a lot of paper millionaires around here," said Mr. Gulati, now a general manager of Ascend's network management division.

Like Netscape, Apple came in an era of first-day "pops" in stock prices, instant paper millionaires and bull-market optimism.

When the stock was at its height at better than $80 a share and Quinlin was a paper millionaire, a friend suggested he sell some of his holdings.