Peter Fenton's net worth is $2 Billion

Peter Fenton Net Worth

Net Worth: $2 Billion
About Peter Fenton

Peter Fenton is a venture capitalist, investor, and internet entrepreneur with an estimated net worth of $2 billion. Fenton is known for investing in many different technology and internet companies like Twitter, JBoss, Zimbra, FriendFeed and many others. Twitter became Fenton’s most successful investment that was enough to put him in the number two spot on the midas list on Forbes. It is said that Fenton sits on Twitter’s board of directors and he owns over 1,000,000 shares respectively totalling the shareholding at approximately 31,568,740 in the company roughly valuing his shares at $725,133,957.80. He is a partner at Benchmark Capital which invests in all these companies through his shareholding although Fenton has other partners in the mix of the venture hedge fund. Fenton graduated with a BA in Philosophy and an MBA from Stanford University where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa and an Arjay Miller Scholar. Previously he was working at Accel Partners for seven years right up until he went on partnering with Benchmark Capital who invested in so many successful technology companies that some even were valued at over $10 billion. Fenton also recently purchased more twitter stock this year since the comeback of Jack Dorsey who saw twitter’s stock soaring and an opportunity to invest another $250,000 to $500,000 increasing his shareholding value tremendously ever since the stock at one point was in the high $50 range. Fenton also has tremendous success with many other technology start up companies that would have a small amount of employment that Fenton believed would grow larger in company size through his capital investing and advice which would prove these company’s tremendous success. Fenton recently invested in technology start up Optimizely having invested in series C round at a capital investment of $58 million dollars worth of the company through Benchmark Capital. Fenton has also recently invested in start up Cockroach Labs in Series A round with a capital investment worth $6.25 million dollars worth of the company.

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