Following the IPO, Accel had 135.7 million Class A shares and 7.9 million of the super-voting Class B shares.
The super-massive class can weigh millions or billions of stellar masses and reside at the centers of galaxies.
Before selling last week, Moskovitz converted 7.5 million super-voting Class B shares into Class A shares so that he could sell on the Nasdaq.
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At the same time, Mr Chidambaram estimates that he will earn huge revenues in 2013-14 by taxing the super-rich and upper-middle class.
It's a riff reminiscent of the fiscal cliff debates we're hearing in Washington, reflecting the growing gap between the super-rich and the middle class.
Rising commodity prices have allowed a class of super-rich, from Middle Eastern potentates to Russian oligarchs, to splash out on converting full-sized airliners into private jets.
The creation of Class B super-voting shares allowed the Sulzberger-Ochs family to maintain an all-but-unchallengeable control of the company while still allowing it to tap the public markets for capital it needed for expansion.
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"M'baye was top-class but Gavin dismantled him in style, " super-middleweight king Calzaghe told BBC Wales' Back Page programme.
Is it coincidence that the creation of this great wealth (for the middle class as well as the super-successful) coincided with the approach toward and institution of the classical gold standard?
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The competition within and between them will compete away those above normal profits rather than it being the class of hedge funds themselves which no longer offer the desired super-profits.
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In our world-is-flat, winner-take-all economy, many futurists said the winners would fall into two camps: super nimble start-ups from Silicon Valley (and similar hotbeds) wielding world-class technology and talent and the largest multinationals with brand, reach and fortress balance sheets.
Having a super-wealthy elite is not a problem if there is also a large, stable middle class.
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