Aviv "Vivi" Nevo ( he, אביב נבו; born 1965) is an

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. He is a major shareholder in

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and other companies, having built his fortune up from an initial $10 million inheritance.

Biography

Nevo was born in

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in 1965. As an infant, he moved to

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

his parents. His father, a chemical engineer and his mother, an

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, eventually divorced. Nevo is an only child. He is Jewish.

Business career

Stan Berk, a former

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manager who hired Nevo in the 1980s after they met at a

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gym, said Nevo worked for him from 1985 to 1988, and then "just disappeared." After a certain time period, they met again, and "Nevo had befriended billionaires and media titans. According to an anonymous business associate of Nevo, with an inheritance of around $10 million, Nevo set about investing and networking. ''

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'' reported that Nevo "opened trading accounts at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, as well as Allen & Co., which eventually won him an invitation to Sun Valley... Through diligence and hard work, the right contacts and a lot of the right trades during the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s, he turned his inheritance into a sizable fortune ... Later on, Nevo began sprinkling money around in private companies, many of which were new media ventures." His

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firm, NV Investments, invests in technology companies worldwide, and is said to have been an early backer of

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, and the largest individual shareholder in Time Warner.

Personal life and reputation

Nevo is said to be averse to

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: He has consistently refused requests for interviews, and was referred to by friends as an "international man of mystery." In July 2008, Nevo said that long-running rumors of an engagement to Chinese actress

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were true. The couple separated in 2010.

References

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