>>751392

got it, branson is a client.

Rizvi, who counts British billionaire Richard Branson and Jeffrey Skoll, the former eBay executive and film producer, among his clients, began investing in Twitter in late 2010.

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In three years, Rizvi managed to sell Twitter stock to several big-hitter investors such as JPMorgan Chase and Kingdom Holding, Saudi Prince Alwaleed's investment arm.

He and his investors together hold a 15% stake in the San Francisco-based firm, purchased at a staggering cost of over $1bn, reported Reuters.

Branson and Skoll aside, Rizvi's network of high net-worth individuals includes Queen Noor of Jordan and Google's Larry Page and Eric Schmidt.

However, it is still not known if any of them have invested in Twitter.

The 47-year-old financier, the co-founder of New York-based private equity firm Rizvi Traverse, is known to guard his privacy fervently.

Both Rizvi and Twitter refused to comment.

From India to Hollywood

Rizvi, born in India, migrated to the US with his family at the age of five.

He and his older brother Ashraf graduated from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton business school and they both serve on the undergraduate school's executive board.

>>751520

Hef started Playboy in 1953, built a successful empire. Like all empires, it came on hard times in 2008, struggled for operations cash. Hef began selling access to his world famous parties.

Hugh Hefner

On Biography.com, read about Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and the impact his groundbreaking publication had on the world.

https:// www.biography.com/people/hugh-hefner-9333521

1. While his company was not profitable, Hef was sitting on a gold-mine, unknowingly.

We are in the INFORMATION age, right?

Enter “Venture capitalist” Suhail R. Rizvi, the co-founder and “Chief Investment Officer” of Rizvi Traverse Management.

1. Traverse is a fund management/investment company, and Rizvi “somehow” got in on the ground floor of companies like Twitter, Facebook, Space-X, Cube, etc. (ever wonder how they know what to invest in?)

Stick with me, it gets SO MUCH BETTER

bloomberg.com/research/stock…

1. In 2011, Hef cut a deal to “Sell” Playboy to Rizvi Traverse (really, it was buying public stock back). Although, he basically gave Playboy away. He traded the company to Rizvi for a $1M/year salary and the right to live in the mansion until he died.

Hugh Hefner reaches deal to take Playboy private - Los Angeles Times

archived 11 Oct 2013 23:12:21 UTC

https:// archive.fo/ukx2m#selection-2063.1-2063.93

1. Suhail Rizvi, called “a reclusive Hollywood insider and Wall Street financier who deletes his existence from the internet.”

They paid 18% over the stock value to make privatize it…Rizvi invested in an unprofitable Playboy why?

valleywag.gawker.com/twitters-bigge…

1. Rizvi, somehow gets info on what to buy before it goes big (almost as if start-up success is somehow controlled), knows Hef is sitting on a goldmine.

But who is interested in that goldmine, and what exactly, is worth so much money?

1. Enter Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

You know, the one who is currently hanging by his feet, being beaten by the mercenary crew formerly known as Blackwater?

Talal invested in Twitter “through” Rizvi…that means Rizvi invests Talal’s money. cnbc.com/2013/11/01/riz…

>>751705

it says here he was working as a real estate analyst while studying for mba

>>751854

maybe they made connections at wharton

>>752009

right around when things started whipping up, can't remember exactly, but that hurricane happened and completely destroyed necker island…..very publicly displaying how everything was destroyed and how they must rebuild everything….think about where the island is located. i always thought that was interesting timing

>>752071

and i remember before that obummer went there alone and hung out with branson for a couple of weeks or something.