The Information’s Database of the Tech Moguls Who Own Sports Teams
Sports leagues have proliferated just as Silicon Valley has gotten incredibly wealthy.
Last June, the Boston Celtics clinched their 18th NBA Championship, making them the most decorated pro basketball franchise of all time. On Thursday, Symphony Technology co-founder Bill Chisholm reached an agreement to buy the team at a valuation of $6.1 billion, giving the Celtics yet another title: the most expensive U.S. sports club ever sold.
Once the transaction is approved, it’ll mark the latest American sports team sold to someone rooted in the world of tech. There have been many such transactions lately. To mark this moment, we’re debuting a new searchable database of all the tech titans with majority stakes in U.S. sports franchises: a list of around five dozen people across 11 sports leagues.
Taken together, the list presents a definitive picture of how sports and tech have become increasingly intertwined. Just in the last five years, the number of sports teams bought by tech moguls has roughly doubled, according to our dataset.