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Eduardo Luis Saverinis a Brazilian internet entrepreneur and investor. Saverin is one of four co-founders of Facebook, along with Mark Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. As of 2012, heowns less than 5% of Facebook's shares and has a net worth of $2 billion, according to Forbes. He has also invested in early-stage startups such as Qwiki and Jumio.
Eduardo Saverin was born in SãoPaulo, Brazil, to a wealthy Jewish Brazilian family, and his family later moved to Rio de Janeiro. Eduardo's father was an industrialist working in export, clothing, shipping, and real estate.
By 1993,Saverin's father had become wealthy, and in 1993 it was discovered that his son Eduardo´s name had been placed on a list of potential kidnapping victims by gangs specializing in kidnapping for ransom.As a result, the family emigrated to the United States to find a safer place to live, and settled in Miami, Florida. Saverin attended Gulliver Preparatory School in Miami, and went on to HarvardUniversity, where he was a member of the Phoenix S.K. Club as well as president of the Harvard Investment Association. While an undergraduate at Harvard, Saverin took advantage of Brazil's lax insidertrading regulations and made $300,000 via strategic investments in the oil industry. In 2006, Saverin graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in economics. He is amember of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity (Eta Psi chapter of Harvard University).
Saverin has lived in Singapore since 2009. In September 2011, he renounced his U.S. citizenship; the citizenship changemay reduce the capital gains taxes Saverin pays after the Facebook IPO, although his taxes may increase initially. Saverin's renunciation of U.S. citizenship may result in his not being permitted toenter the U.S. in the future if the Ex-Patriot Act, which was proposed in response to Saverin's announcement, becomes law.
During his junior year at Harvard University, Saverin met fellow Harvard...
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