John Textor was born on September 30,1965 and is an American businessman.
18 Facts About John Textor
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John Textor is the majority shareholder of Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas, a historic football club in Brazil which is based in Rio de Janeiro.
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John Textor is a co-owner of Crystal Palace Football Club, based in London, which currently competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football.
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John Textor holds a majority stake in Belgian First Division B side RWD Molenbeek.
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John Textor is a controlling shareholder of OL Groupe and majority shareholder in its French football clubs Olympique Lyonnais and Olympique Lyonnais Feminin that respectively compete in France's highest football levels, Ligue 1 and D1 Arkema; and of OL Reign, which competes in the highest-level women's football league of the United States, the National Women's Soccer League.
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John Textor was born as a member of the extended du Pont family in 1965.
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John Textor competed in freestyle skateboarding competitions around Florida as part of the Sims Skateboards team.
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John Textor left competitive skateboarding in the early 1980s to focus on other interests after sustaining a severe head injury in competition.
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John Textor claimed this accident was the reason he turned toward his education and to technology interests at a young age.
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John Textor was linked to efforts to purchase Brentford FC, Watford FC and Newcastle United.
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At the time of his resignation from fuboTV, and through completion of the company's IPO on the New York Stock Exchange, John Textor remained the largest shareholder of fuboTV.
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John Textor is credited as Producer and Executive Producer on the film.
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Digital Domain went bankrupt in 2012 and a short time later, John Textor was sued by the state of Florida for $80M.
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SEC filings demonstrate that John Textor used the award of these technology assets to launch the business that would ultimately become fuboTV.
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In late 2013, John Textor organized a group of former Digital Domain employees to create Pulse Evolution Corporation.
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John Textor's holding company, Wyndcrest Partners, funded the struggling company in 1996.
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John Textor was a founding director of Virtual Bank, an Internet banking startup.
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John Textor took the company public in 2005 selling 2 million shares of common stock, equivalent to approximately $16.5 million.