In exchange for the Greenstart financing and mentorship, the start-ups will each give a 3 to 15 percent common-stock stake to Greenstart, rather than the maximum 10 percent stake that Greenstart initially expected.
He remains the largest single shareholder in Microsoft, with 9.6percentt of the stock, a stake currently worth $21.6 billion.
As with preferred stock, this stake does not entitle everyone to participate in deciding how resources are to be used; this authority is to remain with the states in whose territory resources are located.
But before the company's initial public offering in 1997, Mr. Spencer netted 600,000 shares of Excite stock; his stake would be worth $64 million at the time that the company merged with At Home in January 1999.
Mr. Salmasi and his family, along with some other Omninet investors, received nearly half of Qualcomm's stock, a stake that was reduced to 30percentt after Qualcomm's initial public offering in 1991.
The Allbritton family holds about 53percentt of Riggs's stock, a stake worth about $264 million, and Mr. Allbritton's son, Robert, 35, has been the bank's chairman and chief executive since 2002.
Last year Sampoerna owned 57% of the company's stock, a stake worth $2.3 billion.
Owns $700 million in Kohl's stock; also stake in used car conglomerate Carmax.
If Icahn convinces bondholders to sell him all of the debt so he can convert it to stock, his stake in the company would jump to 30%.
Royal Caribbean Cruises has a zero coupon due February 2021 that is convertible into 11.7 shares of common stock (a stake now worth $191), trading at a price of $330.
