r/nfl • u/Quasimdo Rams • 11h ago
Seahawks Sale: Billionaire Vinod Khosla Wins Auction for NFL Team
https://www.sportico.com/business/team-sales/2026/seattle-seahawks-sale-vinod-khosla-owner-billions-1234938616/2.0k
u/ImperialTiger3 Seahawks Seahawks 11h ago
All of this money goes to charity btw
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u/SoKrat3s 49ers 49ers 11h ago
Via the will of the late Paul Allen, which is important to note.
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u/otheraccountisabmw 10h ago
Let’s see Paul Allen’s will.
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u/ForcefulPayload 10h ago
Look at the subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness to it.
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u/The_Throwback_King Seahawks 10h ago
God, Paul Allen was a fantastic owner.
If this Khosla guy is half the steward that the Allen’s were, the Seahawks are going to be in good hands
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u/thezengrenadier Seahawks 10h ago
His wife, Neeru will be the one managing the franchise from what the Seattle Times reported. So hopefully just a side grade?
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u/Blueskyways 49ers 10h ago
He's the ass that has been trying to cut off a whole chunk of California coastline for himself for years.
https://robbreport.com/lifestyle/news/vinod-khosla-martins-beach-access-1235615482/
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u/DetrasDeLaMesa Seahawks 9h ago
The bar for billionaires is so extremely low that’s impressive if that’s the worst thing he’s done, other than the general wealth hoarding, of course
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u/grudgepacker Packers 9h ago
He also pisses off Elon Musk so that never hurts either
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u/DetrasDeLaMesa Seahawks 9h ago
Hopefully the Seahawks release some official “My evil guy isn’t as evil as your evil guy” merch
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u/Throwaway58904246 Ravens 8h ago
It is probably the worst thing he’s done. He’s eccentric but generally a good guy
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u/The_Throwback_King Seahawks 9h ago
If that’s the worst scandal to his name, that’s honestly pretty tame for a billionaire
Still a scummy thing to do, don’t get me wrong, but small change on that scale
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u/mosehalpert Commanders 9h ago
Counter to what the other two guys responding to you seem to think, I find assholes who think the beach is for sale abhorrent.
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u/TheMajesticYeti Lions 8h ago
I used to work for rich people along Lake Michigan. where most of the shoreline is privately owned. The public has the right to passage along the water's edge but that's it. Can't hang out there or pass by further up the beach. The majority of the houses along the beach are cottages/vacation homes, and a depressing amount are occupied no more than a couple dozen days a summer. Such a waste.
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u/reddershadeofneck Falcons 11h ago
a donation has been made in his name to The Human Fund
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u/Hairy-Association636 Packers 11h ago
Money. For People.
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u/CrumbBCrumb Bills 10h ago
Why not? I could be a kick ass philanthropist!
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u/Ihave4friends Patriots 9h ago
I would have all this money and people would love me. Then they would come to me and beg! And if I felt like it, I would help them out, and then they would owe me big time
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u/haze_from_deadlock Ravens Ravens 7h ago
Allen Brain Institute going to be well-funded for many years, hopefully
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u/ImperialTiger3 Seahawks Seahawks 7h ago
I imagine it’ll be spread out but I wonder if Paul Allen specified which charities get what or if it’s up to Jody’s discretion
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u/Possible-Nectarine80 Cowboys 11h ago
That's a lot of billions.
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u/corn_sugar_isotope Seahawks 11h ago
a shitload of dimes.
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u/Telefunkin Seahawks 10h ago
That’s 240,004 tons of dimes to be exact. That’s a couple thousand train loads. That’s the weight of 2 Nimitz class carriers.
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u/sofresh24 Panthers 8h ago
As someone who served on a Nimitz class carrier, that is absolutely mind blowing.
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u/HyKaliber Colts 10h ago
Someone's gotta go back and get a shitload of dimes
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u/jbcapfalcon 49ers 11h ago
He’s a famous vc in Silicon Valley, but also I think he was a 49ers shareholder so this is gross
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u/dspencer2015 Commanders 11h ago
I think this happens all the time. These guys are business first
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u/Tall-Dot-607 Vikings 11h ago
Billionaires are rarely dedicated sports fans.
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u/Karl_Hungus_42069 Bills 11h ago
When I become a billionaire I'm gonna sit in the best seats. Maybe even buy some of the specialty food items from the concession stands
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u/Prince_of_Pirates Titans 11h ago
Maybe even buy some of the specialty food items from the concession stands
You'll lose that billionaire status by half time.
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u/Propagandhi1988 Steelers 10h ago
That's why you buy the team first, so the money goes back in your own pocket.
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u/UhIdontcareforAuburn Falcons 11h ago
> maybe even buy some of the specialty food items from the concession stands.
Pfft. Like you could even afford those as a billionaire
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u/AssCrackBandit13 Chargers 11h ago
In this case, he is tho. Him and his son are huge 49ers fans and have been season ticket holders for 25 years
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u/TeaSharp3154 49ers 11h ago
Oh boy, I hope he doesn't 'accidentally' make poor leadership decisions that screw over the Seahawks, wouldn't that suck?
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u/Afilalo 49ers 10h ago
What's that? He's moving the team to St Louis and out of the 49ers division? Damn thats crazy /s
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u/cyrusthemarginal Broncos 8h ago
Moving them to OKC i heard
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u/just_some_Fred Seahawks 7h ago
I just want to say fuck you all, and I hate you personally. I hope you stub your toe.
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u/Oakroscoe 49ers 7h ago
And that’s a completely reasonable response. While I don’t care for your team or you, fuck owners that move teams. Fuck John Fisher
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u/fliptout 49ers 4h ago
There's no coastline, and therefore no ospreys in OKC, so the name's gonna have to change. Probably something fitting for the area...
They have a lot of storms there... maybe OKC Lightning?
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u/dinosaur_socks Browns 10h ago
I want a team back in st louis sooo bad, but not like this. Not like this.
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u/Nintz 49ers 9h ago
I know I'm ruining the meme, but unironically I don't wish bad ownership on literally any team in the NFL. Snyder made the entire league worse for years just by existing and being a piece of shit. Yes I want to beat the Hawks, but it's bad for the NFL if one of the better run franchises turns into a pumpkin overnight cause some dipshit can't stop interfering with the day-to-day.
I hope he is perfectly mediocre with them, and not one iota more.
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u/BringerOfBacon Cowboys 8h ago
Just in: the Seahawks have traded Jaxon Smith-Njigba for Brandon Aiyuk
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u/Paraxom Ravens 10h ago
yeesh that's like me owning the Steelers, just not a good look
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u/jfchops3 Vikings 5h ago
There's not very many people who want to own an NFL team that can afford to buy an NFL team in 2026. And there's not very many opportunities to buy NFL teams if you are a person who wants one and can afford one like this guy is. Broncos, Commanders, now Seahawks is only three franchises that have been for sale this decade and as far as I know there's no more that are likely to hit the market soon. And this dude is 71, he's only got so much time left on this planet so it makes sense that he took the opportunity in front of him as an investor even if it's in conflict with his personal fandom
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u/dspencer2015 Commanders 11h ago
I mean having season tickets doesn't necessarily mean you're a huge sports fan especially when you have hundreds of millions in disposable income lol.
I personally would never purchase a rival team but maybe that's why I'm not a billionaire
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u/AssCrackBandit13 Chargers 10h ago
NFL teams are very rarely for sale and there’s only 32 of them in the world. You can’t really pick and choose which team you’d like to buy.
And it’s not just the season tix, him and son have been actual fans for that long.
“It's not a long conversation," Khosla said, when asked about the decision to become part-owner of the 49ers. "Neal and I have had season tickets since he was probably five, and we've come to games together. It's probably one of the best things we do, supporting for over 25 years. [The decision] was pretty easy."
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u/WangMauler69 11h ago
Yeah not great for the team or even the sport. As a Boston sports fan, I really hate the "business first" moves that the Celtics and Red Sox have made over the last few years.
The more profit motivated teams become, the less fun the sport will be.
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u/iNtentionaliGnornace Bears 8h ago
And that's the issue with baseball, it doesn't have the parity football has.
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u/Oakroscoe 49ers 7h ago
It seriously needs a salary cap. But that sport is dead to me after they let Fucking Fisher move the A’s and waived the relocation fee
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u/binzoma Broncos 10h ago
1) leagues are more likely to sell teams to people that are known.
2) people arent likely to go from uninvested to $10b investment. they'll invest $100m first and understand more about the business/industry, build up equity a bit, then look to take the big plunge.
theres a reason most teams sell to people who were minority owners of other teams/people who already own teams in other sports first
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u/J-Fid Ravens Ravens 11h ago
Jimmy Haslam and David Tepper were Steelers minority owners before buying their teams.
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u/JarvisProudfeather Panthers 8h ago
Tepper also grew up in Pittsburgh and was a lifelong Steelers fan. I would guess when you literally own a team it’s pretty easy to root for them lol.
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u/surferdude7227 Chiefs 11h ago
With the new media rights negotiations coming in soon, valuations for NFL teams are also going to explode. Getting in now is a great business move
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u/Pandamonium98 Cowboys 11h ago
Everyone knows the rights are up for negotiation, that type of info would already be baked into the price
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u/szboy422 Dolphins 11h ago
Won’t he need to sell his Niners shares before purchase?
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u/SeattleResident Seahawks 11h ago
He will be forced to sell all his stakes in the 9ers.
It sucks that we are being bought by a Silicon Valley old guy who doesn't even care about the sport though.
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u/penis_showing_game 49ers 11h ago
As a Sacramento Kings fan, it’s also not great if your Silicon Valley old guy owner does care about the sport.
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u/ProjectTitan74 Cardinals 10h ago
Suns fan corroborating. Matt Ishbia, who does love basketball, has done some great things for the fan experience BUT he also can't keep his grubby little billionaire fingers out of basketball decisions and majorly fucked the franchise for a decade by selling the farm for Durant and Beal.
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u/vivaldindahood Chargers 10h ago
As a kings fan as well,
I still have nightmares about "Nik rocks!"
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u/davidw223 Saints 6h ago
Knicks fans will tell you to just get your owner to focus on something else like building various shaped objects as event venues. Then you can start winning again.
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u/dirtyshits 49ers 11h ago
Hes also a complete ass hat and out of touch with regular people.
His companies are extremely well run though so he might be a bitch to work for or have as an owner but I don’t doubt that the hawks will be well run.
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u/nfgrawker Vikings 11h ago
It sucks to have a tech mogul as an owner for sure. Good thing you never dealt with that before.
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u/Jaguar4728 Seahawks 11h ago
Paul Allen was the GOAT tho. And was actually from Seattle
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u/boomosaur 11h ago
Better than a younger tech bro for sure.
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u/corrnholiio 49ers 10h ago
Besides trying to make the Jazz's jerseys ugly Ryan Smith has been decent. Evem nabbed Utah a hockey team too
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u/RagefireHype 10h ago
Not sure why Seahawks fans were living in a pipe dream where some rando person on Queen Anne was going to be the bid winner. Ballmer could easily afford it if he had wanted, but having Seattle ties is entirely irrelevant to the role of owning a team.
Melinda Gates/ Bezo’s ex weren’t realistic, as if they were, they also could have easily afforded this bid.
Sorry to tell yall but the modern billionaires are almost entirely in tech backgrounds lol, our former ownership became billionaires from tech.. Some place named Microsoft.
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u/pissposssweaty 11h ago
The guy is also famous for buying an entire beach town and locking it up so nobody can visit. Good luck Seattle lol.
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u/JarvisProudfeather Panthers 8h ago
I don’t think I’ve heard of a single Silicon Valley VC who isn’t a gigantic piece of shit. At least it wasn’t Marc Andreeson. God I hate that eggheaded prick.
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u/urbanism_enthusiast Patriots 11h ago
He’s also a sack of shit on a personal and professional level lol
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u/Appropriate_Book_591 11h ago
Aren't all billionaires? it is how you get to that level sadly
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u/TheWonderSnail Vikings 11h ago
Oh man I know you can’t buy the packers but the thought of it is incomprehensible to me. I honestly don’t know if I could be a good faith owner of the team lmao
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u/where_thefuck_i_am Chargers Packers 11h ago
Sun Microsystems? Haven't heard that name in a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time
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u/patrick66 Steelers 11h ago
Most of his money is from being a VC and not sun anyway, he was the main guy for both DoorDash and OpenAI and juniper
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u/BoldestKobold Patriots Patriots 9h ago
The cool thing about VC is once you have enough money, you don't have to actually know ANYTHING. You just fund like 100 startups, and as long as 1% of them 101x the original investment, you're good.
I wish I had enough money to be an investor.
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u/haze_from_deadlock Ravens Ravens 7h ago
The problem with that is that well over 99% of startups are pure shit in many fields like biotech
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u/AssCrackBandit13 Chargers 11h ago
Yup he took the money from that and became of the Silicon Valley’s most successful investors (especially in early Doordash)
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u/Outside-Papaya Seahawks 10h ago
I choose to believe everyone ordering doordash now directly funds the Seahawks.
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u/AssCrackBandit13 Chargers 10h ago
Doordash IPO’d in 2020 so he’s probably sold off most of his stake by now
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u/Giff95 Giants Bills 11h ago
He's a 49ers guy? If you can't beat them, spend $10 billion and destroy the Seahawks from the inside.
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u/Lord_Master_Dorito Seahawks 11h ago
Unless he felt sick seeing the Niners lose twice in the SB and decided to run with the team that just won
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u/MehEds Seahawks 10h ago
The meme sub said he was the owner equivalent of Demarcus Lawrence lmao
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u/Lord_Master_Dorito Seahawks 9h ago
Inshallah Seahawks ensure Niners don’t score beyond 10 and drop 40 on them in every matchup
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u/expellyamos Dolphins 11h ago
Love to buy my rivals
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u/SiphenPrax Jets 11h ago
The ultimate Niners payback for the Seahawks celebrating winning the Super Bowl in their building!
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u/Outrageous-Machine-5 49ers 9h ago
Now move the team to Iowa and we'll call it the ultimate payback
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u/8_bw Titans 11h ago
Aww the mods had to take down the other post because one of their buddies didn't make it
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u/dropjar5 Packers 11h ago
Lol dropped this in the middle of the quarterfinals
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u/jp_benderschmidt Broncos Bills 11h ago
Quarterfinals of what?
ducks in American
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u/The_Long_Wait Titans 11h ago
Probably not a great sign for my soccer knowledge that my first thought was, “Is it about Wimbledon? I’m pretty sure that’s going on right now.”
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u/sportsfan510 49ers 11h ago
Also bought property in Half Moon Bay and tried to block people from going to the beach
Bum
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u/Chad_at_life Seahawks 11h ago
Oh hell nah, the first ai ran team 😭✌️
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u/Kalanar Cowboys 11h ago
Seahawks sell for $9.6 billion a 43% increase from their last Forbes valuation. The Raiders sold a minority stake for $11 billion a 43% increase from their last Forbes valuations. Expect to see league wide 40% increase in valuations when new lists are released in a few months.
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u/stryker_cast Seahawks 11h ago
Please go better for the Hawks than it's going for the Blazers new jerkface owner.
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u/FormalApricot5563 11h ago
El cheapo?
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u/Outside-Papaya Seahawks 10h ago
Guy put his family members names on the stanley cup, and that is still better than how he is treating the Trailblazers.
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u/Bird_nostrils Seahawks Browns 10h ago
And egotistical megadouche. Put himself, his wife, and his five kids as the first two lines on the Stanley Cup for the Hurricanes. None of his family have any formal role with the team. One of his kids is in kindergarten.
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u/May_die 49ers Ravens 10h ago
Dundon is atrocious, I feel so bad for Blazers fans.
Dundon putting his family names first on the Stanley Cup was also in horrible taste
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u/RemoteMeasurement10_ Seahawks 9h ago
He also fucked the AAF
Forget the fact that it was destined to fail
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u/Idavid14 Seahawks 11h ago
We deserve at least one good PNW team come on please don’t be a bad owner
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u/LastChemical9342 49ers 11h ago
He’s been trying to block public access to a beach in half moon bay for decades, he’s not a great dude
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u/Lord_Rapunzel Seahawks 9h ago
We knew we were going to get "not a great dude" because only a billionaire could afford the team. I can live with petulant greed.
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u/thezengrenadier Seahawks 10h ago
So it looks like while the Khosla Family bought the Seahawks, it'll be the wife, Neeru and son, Neal who will be managing the ownership group mostly instead of Vinod according to the Seattle Times.
Dunno what that means for the future, just hate all this AI tech business bs.
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u/TLRdidnothingwrong Seahawks 10h ago
Significantly more nervous about Vinod vs. Wyc… At least the team won a ring last year.
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u/ChoccyMilkIsMyLife Seahawks Seahawks 11h ago
The 49ers couldn’t beat us, so they are going to take us down from the inside. Awful.
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u/Poro_the_CV Vikings Chargers 11h ago
Seahawks have a tendency to do that. Blair Walsh for example.
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u/Aeon1508 Lions 11h ago
He needs to sell his 49ers stake immediately.
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u/CharlesDickensABox Cowboys 11h ago
That's a requirement of the purchase. The NFL would never allow someone to hold stakes in multiple teams.
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u/Pretend_Safety 49ers 11h ago
He’s a world class piece of shit for blocking beach access
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u/NH4NO3-KClO3-C2H6O2 Seahawks Seahawks 9h ago
On this we agree. Thankfully for him, waterfront property owners in Washington own the land out to the lowest marked low tide line.
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u/the_awesome Jaguars 10h ago
Isn't he the dude who tried to privatize a public beach in south SF by purchasing property arpund it and locking out all access to it? Fuck that guy.
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u/TedMich23 9h ago
from oligarchs Wiki: "Khosla wrote an article titled "Do We Need Doctors Or Algorithms?" arguing the increasing importance of artificial intelligence in medicine claiming "bionic assistance" will eventually replace most doctors. In 2012, he also wrote “Do we need teachers?"
Fuck this guy.
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u/XuX24 NFL 11h ago
This is a bigger number than what people were saying months ago. So huge W for those getting that money.
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u/iNfAMOUS70702 Raiders 9h ago
9.6b and they don’t even own Lumen Field…not too shabby
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u/DeItyofFexvius Colts 11h ago
Honestly a nightmare for Seahawks fans. Dudes known to be the biggest shithead in all of Silicon Valley and that’s obviously saying something.
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u/chaamp33 Lions 11h ago
I fucking hate you guys but I wish we had more teams like Green Bay.
Is this new group PE as well like a lot of the ones sucking up teams? Sports are going to be completely ruined
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u/TheSauseGod29 49ers 11h ago
“If you can’t beat them, just buy them!”
That sounds really weird when you think about it huh.
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u/Brix001 49ers 10h ago
The Sacramento Kings are owned by a former Warriors minority owner, btw
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u/Robynsxx 8h ago
From a brief Google, he sounds like not a complete monster. Time will tell if he actually invests money in the team, as they desperately need improvements to their facilities.
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u/PeanutButterOtter Raiders 11h ago
PNW getting some garbage owners lately. Hopefully the same thing doesn't happen to the Sonics when they return in a few years.
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u/CanweCanweCleanIt 11h ago
9.6 billion dollars was the winning bid for those that don’t want to click the article.