Seattle Seahawks followers envisioning one other tech billionaire as the brand new proprietor of the NFL workforce have a pair Silicon Valley-based names to think about. Or not.
Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and Apple CEO Tim Prepare dinner have been talked about as potential suitors for the franchise, which was put up on the market in February by the property of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Entrance Workplace Sports activities reported Thursday that Zuckerberg and Prepare dinner are amongst a minimum of 4 events contemplating making affords for the workforce. They’re the primary severe names to emerge in a sale that might fetch upwards of $7 billion.
In a submit on X, Dylan Byers of Puck stated the report was not true and sources near Prepare dinner and Zuckerberg stated neither was fascinated with bidding for the Seahawks.
Reps for all of these concerned declined to remark or couldn’t be reached, together with the Paul G. Allen property and the financial institution dealing with the sale course of, Entrance Workplace Sports activities stated.
Based on Forbes, Zuckerberg is value $222 billion and Prepare dinner $2.8 billion.
Prepare dinner introduced final week that he’s stepping down as Apple CEO and can turn out to be government chairman on Sept. 1.
The plan to promote the 50-year-old franchise is a part of the lengthy technique of divesting lots of the property and investments that Allen made throughout his lifetime and direct all proceeds to philanthropy. Since his dying, Allen’s property has steadily moved to promote main property, together with actual property holdings and, extra not too long ago, advancing the sale course of for the NBA’s Portland Path Blazers.
Allen co-founded Microsoft with childhood pal Invoice Gates, and the billionaire philanthropist purchased the Seahawks in 1997 for about $200 million from earlier proprietor Ken Behring. The acquisition secured the workforce’s dwelling in Seattle after Behring threatened a transfer to California. Allen ran the workforce till his dying in 2018 on the age of 65 after he was identified with a recurrence of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Gates has beforehand expressed little interest in proudly owning the workforce, however the listing of those that might contains many who made their fortunes in tech, from former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
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