What's up w/ this new "Q" name Rizvi Traverse Management? (pizzagate)

submitted ago by bopper

Rizvi Traverse Indian billionaire. What, is this guy CIA intermediary? (High level compartmentalization? A few degrees removed?) He's propped up Playboy, Twitter, and works w/ Richard Branson and big Hollywood celebs.

Involved (investments) in all these things including film biz and Snapchat. Private global jet charters. SpaceX (rockets and space travel). This guy's got his fingers in everything. Virtual reality (that's another conspiracy for another place).

Website below, has a playboy white rabbit on his wall. Other stuff about him on the internet. Probably Linked-in too, dunno. Just putting it out there. Makes my head hurt.

Website http://www.rizvitraverse.com/

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2253986

Here he is, he digs anonymity.

http://www.rizvitraverse.com/insight-little-known-hollywood-investor-poised-to-score-with-twitter-ipo/

October 3rd, 2013 via Reuters

(Reuters) – When Twitter goes public in coming weeks, one of the biggest winners will be a 47-year-old financier who guards his secrecy so zealously that he employs a person to take down his Wikipedia entry and scrub his picture from the Internet.

BloodSnail ago

Dude that playboy (white rabbit) bunny on the wall. That is really weird.

bopper ago

They're all over it over there.

LightlyToasted ago

Just spend a little time lurking, you'll get the hang of it!

BloodSnail ago

I really like this subverse though. It's a wonderful meta-page for discussion

bopper ago

I'll keep trying :)

TimeOutofJoint ago

The playboy bunny on the wall is really strange.

ghost_tourist ago

Indian born Suhail R. Rizvi assisted HUGH HEFNER to buy Playboy Enterprises back in 2011.He is the son of Raza Rizvi, a ((Professor of Psychology)) Mmmm dig into this one....

rooting4redpillers ago

Here’s some stuff - scuttlebutt - about his Twitter investments, from November 9, 2013:

Suhail Rizvi, the newly-minted Twitter billionaire from India | Gadgets Now website

Excerpt:

The scuttlebutt is that Rizvi began acquiring Twitter shares from early investors and vested employees such as co-founder Evan Williams through his friend, former Google executive and Silicon Valley angel investor Chris Sacca. They succeeded in getting around traditional Silicon Valley VCs, who typically have first dibs on tech companies, by cleverly camouflaging their buying, outmaneuvering such storied firms such as Kleiner Perkins to become the largest outside shareholder of Twitter.

Beneficiaries besides his company Rizvi Traverse included wealthy clients such as Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal and JP Morgan Chase, all of whom raked in hundreds of millions on Thursday.

But from all accounts, no one made out better than Rizvi Traverse and its principal, who pulled in more than what even the founders and CEOs (Evan Williams and Jack Dorsey) and initial investors (Spark Capital, Benchmark Capital etc.,) made.

TimeOutofJoint ago

This is actually a pretty normal way to acquire stock in a private company. When a company is private, it's inevitable that some employees will want or need to sell and investors can take the opportunity to buy. Not illegal or unusual.

rooting4redpillers ago

I mostly just found this interesting. Not suggesting it was illegal, I wouldn’t know. It did seem - if not unusual - at least striking in $$$scope. This story would make a good movie.

bopper ago

They succeeded in getting around traditional Silicon Valley VCs, who typically have first dibs on tech companies, by cleverly camouflaging their buying, outmaneuvering such storied firms such as ...

Just shrewd biz maneuvers nothing to see here.

rooting4redpillers ago

I’ve never heard of him until now. Since he’s so intensly low-profile, that’s probably ditto for most ordinary people. Maybe he’s just a smart in doing this kind of business, maybe he’s more than that. I’m all for having a look, if relevance to pizzagate can be shown in good time. Also - since I read Q’s Saudi Arabia/LV incident scenario the other day - I thought the prominent mention of the Saudi prince in this article might be of interest.