Who is Eduardo Saverin?

Eduardo Saverin (born March 20, 1982) is one of the co-founders of Facebook, along with Mark Zuckerberg. He owns a 5% share of Facebook, worth $1.3 billion. In The Social Network, Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin gets screwed. But Saverin writes, "The true takeaway for me was that entrepreneurship and creativity... are perhaps the most important drivers of business today." His $1.1 billion stake in Facebook probably helps.

Recently has been hiding out in Singapore for the better part of the last year-and-a-half. We have heard 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 who has spoken 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.”

Saverin is also an occasional guest blogger on CNBC.com. Last Friday he wrote that what he found most compelling about the film was “who said what to whom and why.” He wrote, “I have wondered how Hollywood would depict [Facebook's] creation and development on the big screen,” noting that “the movie was clearly intended to be entertainment and not a fact-based documentary.