Zuckerberg sells his shares, to pay taxes

Executive Director and founder of social network Facebook , Mark Zuckerberg today will sell part of its shares in the amount of 2.3 billion dollars , to pay taxes to the state .
The sale of its shares is part of the offer of 70 million shares. Zuckerberg is selling its 41.35 stake . Marc Andreessen , an investor in Facebook is also sold 1.6 million shares . Today , the value of a Facebook share reached 54 dollars , and this makes the value of shares Andreessen reach 86.4 million dollars .

Facebook " intends to use the net proceeds for working capital and for other general purposes of the corporation , " said according to a press release issued today by the company .

In September , Forbes had estimated Zuckerberg's wealth by $ 19 billion , or twice as much as last year . Facebook shares have risen 108 percent over the past year .