I want to intoduce you to the co-founder of Facebook, one of the famous social network in the world.
Eduardo Saverin is well known as a Brazilian Enterpreneur. He owns a 5% share of Facebook, worth $1.3 billion USD as of October 7, 2010. Want to know his history? okay let me tell you
Saverin met Mark Zuckerberg during his freshman year in Harvard and later co-founded Facebook (used to known as The Facebook) with Zuckerberg during his sophomore year, assuming the role of CFO and business manager. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in Economics.
But, there's an internal conflicts and differences of opinion with Zuckerberg over the following summer, when Saverin was living in New York (where he worked briefly as a finance intern), Saverin drifted away from what was then known as "thefacebook". The Facebook turn into Facebook
After outside investors, venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel and Napster co-founder Sean Parker took control of the start-up's finances and capital needs and backed Zuckerberg as its CEO, Saverin's role diminished and his influence evaporated.And then Zuckerberg dropped Saverin's percentage ownership share of Facebook to 0.03%. Because of that Saverin sued Zuckerberg and Facebook in April 2005.
Saverin won in court , the court verified 7% ownership. Saverin also won his claim to label himself as a co-founder of Facebook .
and now he is currently believed to be living in Singapore and recently been funding Facebook games developer.
For those who watched movie, The Social Network, might have a better impression of him :)"You dont get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies" - The Social Network
source : Eduardo Saverin WIkipedia (with some changes)
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wow, i have watch social network and really interested with him. i mean everyone knows Mark but no one knows Eduardo. i adore him now. he's very smart and i think he needs to make his own 'facebook' lol just saying....
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