Eduardo Luiz Saverin was born on March 19, 1982, in São Paulo, Brazil, to a rich Jewish-Brazilian family. Roberto Saverin, his father, was a successful businessman who worked in exports. Sandra, his mother, was a psychologist. Saverin grew up in a wealthy family and showed an early talent for school and business. In the early 1990s, his family moved to Miami, Florida, to get away from Brazil, where kidnapping threats were on the rise.
Saverin did very well in school. He went to Gulliver Preparatory School in Miami and then went to Harvard University. He went to Harvard to study economics and graduated with honors in 2006. He was a member of the Phoenix S.K. Club, a well-known social group, and president of the Harvard Investment Association while he was at Harvard. He was good with numbers and investments from a young age. He is said to have made $300,000 trading stocks while he was in college.
The Story of Facebook
Eduardo Saverin will always be remembered as one of the people who started Facebook, the social media giant that changed the way people talk to each other around the world. Saverin met Mark Zuckerberg, a fellow student at Harvard, in 2004 when he was a junior. Zuckerberg had a big idea for a social networking site. Saverin co-founded “TheFacebook” with Zuckerberg, Dustin Moskovitz, Andrew McCollum, and Chris Hughes. At first, it was a way for Harvard students to connect.
Saverin was very important to the company’s early days. He gave it $1,000 in seed money and later gave it more money to keep it going. He was the company’s first chief financial officer (CFO) and business manager, and he was very important in getting the first advertising deals and helping to shape the platform’s business strategy. His 34% stake in the company showed how much he helped it grow in its early days.
But as Facebook got bigger, things got tense. Zuckerberg moved the company to Palo Alto, California, in 2005 to grow it. Saverin stayed in New York to work on business development. They had a falling out because they didn’t agree on strategy and he lost shares in new investment rounds. Saverin’s share of the company had dropped a lot by the end of 2005, and his role in it had also dropped. The legal issues that came up after that were settled outside of court. Saverin kept a large, though smaller, share of Facebook and was officially recognized as a co-founder.
Andrew Garfield played Saverin in the 2010 movie The Social Network, which dramatized this part of his life. The movie took some creative liberties, but it did a good job of showing Saverin’s important early contributions to Facebook’s success.
Life After Facebook
Saverin took on his role as an entrepreneur and investor after leaving Facebook. In 2011, he gave up his U.S. citizenship, which caused a lot of talk because people thought it was because of taxes before Facebook’s IPO in 2012. Saverin, on the other hand, said that the main reason was that he wanted to live and work in Singapore, where he had moved in 2009. He became a citizen of Singapore and got involved in the city’s lively tech scene.
Saverin helped start B Capital Group, a venture capital firm that invests in technology and healthcare startups, in 2012. B Capital has invested in more than 100 companies in Asia, the U.S., and other places, working with industry veterans like Raj Ganguly. Some of the most well-known companies they have invested in are Ninja Van, a logistics unicorn in Southeast Asia, and AImotive, a company that makes self-driving cars. B Capital will manage billions of dollars in assets by 2025, which shows Saverin’s sharp eye for promising businesses.
Saverin has also invested in startups like Qwiki, a multimedia platform, and Jumio, a digital payment company, in addition to B Capital. He believes in investing in new technologies and business models that can grow, especially in emerging markets like India and Southeast Asia.
Life and Legacy
Eduardo Saverin lives a low-key life in Singapore with his wife, Elaine Andriejanssen, whom he married in 2015. Saverin sometimes speaks at global tech and investment conferences, but the couple has mostly stayed out of the public eye.
Saverin is one of the richest people in the world, with a net worth of more than $20 billion as of 2025. This is mostly because of his remaining Facebook shares and smart investments. But his legacy goes beyond just money. His journey from a dorm room at Harvard to being a global investor shows how important it is to have a vision, take risks, and be strong.
Saverin’s story also shows how complicated startup relationships can be, as ambition and growth can put friendships and partnerships to the test. His time on Facebook ended with legal problems, but there’s no denying that he helped the site get off to a good start. His later businesses show that he wants to encourage innovation all over the world.
Conclusion: Eduardo Saverin‘s journey from being a Brazilian immigrant to co-founding one of the most important companies in history shows that he has an entrepreneurial spirit. He is still shaping the future of technology through B Capital and his angel investments, showing that his influence goes far beyond the Harvard dorm where it all started. Saverin is still an important person in the global startup ecosystem because he connects Silicon Valley with Asia’s booming tech scene.
