Facebook’s Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Is Staying In Singapore
For the past 18 months, it is said.
I haven’t run into him, but have confirmed from at least ten local programmers and angel investors that Eduardo Saverin– the Brazilian-born estranged Facebook co-founder who helped Ben Mezrich write a devastating revenge book of his ouster before taking a settlement and disappearing from the face of the US tech scene– has been hiding out in Singapore for the better part of the last year-and-a-half. I’m told he lives in the penthouse of the tallest building of the city, and is a regular at Singapore’s club hot spots, especially a place called The Butter Factory.
Rolling with the city’s socialites aside, locals say that Saverin is pretty low-key. No one I spoke with had ever heard him refer to himself as the “co-founder” of Facebook. It either goes unsaid or, on one occasion, he told someone who’d never heard of him he was merely a “programmer of Facebook games.” I don’t know how much coding he’s doing, but he’s reportedly using that Facebook settlement money to fund a variety of Facebook game developers from his perch in Singapore– a perch that happens to be just next door to Facebook’s second largest market, Indonesia. He may be hiding out from the limelight and attention, but he’s certainly not trying to get away from Facebook itself.
HI EVERYONE,
Singapore is a cool, safe place to live!
Eduardo (yeah I doubt you will ever read this) I want to be your neighbour in Cafe World hahaha!!—> Cafe World is one of your “likes” I believe according to FB anyways.
How are the clubs in Singapore? Is there room for one more night club? And if so, I want to open one!
Anyways, I like promoting (rock) music!
If anyone would like to discuss the club/music scene with me, please send message to: Selena.Hanuman@msn.com
I live in Toronto, ON by the way,
-S