In 2008, Gideon Yu, then the chief financial officer of Facebook Inc., began steering some former employees who wanted to sell shares in the social network toward a specific buyer.
The firm, Millennium Technology Value Partners, paid about $10 million to acquire stock from about a dozen former employees of Facebook, according to people familiar with the matter.
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