Instagram was acquired by Facebook today for $1 billion in cash and stock.
It only has 13 employees. If all employees had equal shares (they didn't), that'd be $76.9 million per worker.
Meet 11 of the lucky employees and 5 investors behind Instagram.
Two other employees were hired during South by Southwest last month and their information wasn't available for this story.
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