I haven't run into him, but have confirmed from at least ten local programmers and angel investors that Eduardo Saverin-- the Brazilian-born estranged Facebook co-founder who helped Ben Mezrich write a devastating revenge book of his ouster before taking a settlement and disappearing from the face of the US tech scene-- has been hiding out in Singapore for the better part of the last year-and-a-half. I'm 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 I spoke 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." I don't know how much coding he's doing, but he's reportedly using that Facebook settlement money to fund a variety of Facebook game developers from his perch in Singapore. He may be hiding out from the limelight and attention, but he's certainly not trying to get away from Facebook itself.
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