[11] Saverin is the wealthiest Brazilian, with an estimated net worth of US$39.3 billion as of 12 February 2025, according to Forbes, and the 39th richest individual in the world.

[13] Eduardo Luiz Saverin was born in São Paulo to a wealthy Jewish-Brazilian family,[5][14][15] which later moved to Rio de Janeiro.

While an undergraduate at Harvard, Saverin used his interest in meteorology to predict hurricane patterns and made $300,000 via investment in oil futures.

[5] On May 15, 2012, Business Insider obtained and released an exclusive email from Zuckerberg detailing how he cut Saverin from Facebook and diluted his stake.

[23] Zuckerberg privately stated at the time, "Eduardo is refusing to co-operate at all ... We basically now need to sign over our intellectual property to a new company and just take the lawsuit ...

[28] In addition to forming B Capital, in early 2020, Saverin invested in Antler, an early-stage VC fund and startup accelerator founded by his friend and Harvard classmate, Magnus Grimeland.

[29][30] Saverin is played by Andrew Garfield in the film The Social Network, which is based on Ben Mezrich's The Accidental Billionaires.

[27] Saverin and Elaine Andriejanssen, an Indonesian national of Chinese descent and with partial Dutch ancestry, became engaged on March 27, 2014, and were married on June 25, 2015.

[9][38][39] Saverin claimed that he renounced his citizenship because of his "interest in working and living in Singapore",[40] and denied that he left the U.S. to avoid paying taxes.