Long_shortguy
4年前
Noto's Bio-SOFI is in good hands
Career
Goldman Sachs and NFL
Noto joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 and was voted the top analyst by Institutional Investor magazine for research on the Internet industry.[4] Noto led the firm’s communications, media and entertainment research team at Goldman Sachs, and provided strategic direction and resource allocation for the group. He became a managing director in 2003, and a partner in 2004.[5]
On 24 February 2008, Noto took over the job of CFO for the National Football League, a position left vacant since former CFO, Barbara Kaczynski, left in February 2003.[4] Noto held the position until October 2010, but left just prior to the negotiations which led up to the 2011 lockout. He returned to Goldman Sachs in October 2010 as the co-head of Goldman’s global media group.[6] In 2013, Noto helped Goldman score one of the "biggest tech prizes around" when the company won the role of lead underwriter for Twitter's initial public offering.[7] Noto would work as the main banker dealing with Twitter.[8]
Coatue and Twitter
In May 2014, Noto announced that he would be leaving Goldman Sachs to join the New York-based hedge fund Coatue Management LLC.[9] However, on 1 July 2014, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced that Noto would join Twitter as the company's CFO.[10] The two men built a good relationship the previous year when Noto managed Twitter's account while at Goldman Sachs.[8] In 2014, Noto received total compensation of $73 million.[11]
SoFi
On January 20, 2018, it was confirmed that Noto was leaving Twitter to become the CEO of SoFi (Social Finance, Inc.).[12][13]
downthehatch
4年前
Sure.
In Re: RenRen is a shareholders derivative lawsuit. The case involves shares of SoFi stock that were taken into a controlled spinoff by Joseph Chen, the CEO of RENN and a Director of SoFi. The lawsuit alleges he did this in away that benefitted him, and injured the other shareholders. A motion to dismiss was defeated, and that decision upheld on appeal. The court has now ordered that no further shares of SoFi be disposed of by the Chen-controlled entity.
Since Chen is a SoFi board member, and the lawsuit alleges wrongdoing by Chen, it would have to be disclosed in any future filings by IPOE or SoFi relating to the merger. Either that, or Chen would have to give up his board seat.
Since he likely doesn't want to do that, a settlement is the easiest way to get rid of this messy matter, and keep it out of any required filings. Chalmath certainly doesn't want a filing with a paragraph about a SoFi board member involved in a shareholders derivative lawsuit.
Since Chen owns over 25% of RENN, a settlement won't really cost him whatever he settles for, since 25% of the settlement comes right back to him in his shares.
When this lawsuit is settled, I'd expect RENN shares to get a windfall of between $10 - $20 a share.
downthehatch
4年前
You might want to look at what's happening in the In Re RenRen shareholders derivative lawsuit, for clues on when the SoFi SPAC will close. RENN is the symbol.
RENN CEO is Joseph Chen, also on the board of SoFi, and his shares of SoFi are tied up by the derivative lawsuit.
All the docs in the lawsuit are on NY Supreme Court website. Court just entered a show cause order yesterday, for a hearing on May 14. Case 653594/2018:
http://www.nycourts.gov/courts/nyc/supreme/#:~:text=The%20Supreme%20Court%20is%20the%20trial%20court%20of,civil%20jurisdiction%20and%20jurisdiction%20%20over%20felony%20charges.
More info on the RENN ihub board.
Rock_nj
4年前
All I know is that SoFi has blockbuster potential in coming years. Yes, there’s a trade here with the imminent merger, if the markets don’t collapse. However, longer run, like years, this could be one of those big runner stocks that reward people that average in now, because their customer base and revenue are likely to grow a lot in coming years.
jevansac
4年前
IMO. I thought I missed the boat ($30-35 price target), but when it drew back, I jumped on board because the s-4 had been filed so long ago. (On a different note, look at the chart and notice the huge bump on January 7th. Four days before the s-4 filing. How did that happen? Did they tweet their intention of filing?)
Some people are saying investors are dumping their shares, but the volume is telling me conservative hands are selling to reduce risk/take profit off the table. I'd say expected and normal due to the news and not the scary dumping of obviously bad news, but rather measured position management.
I love this "dumping" because IF the proxy hits our emails unexpectedly there will be a slingshot effect as people race to regain their positions. FOMO takes over and we'll reap the rewards. Yeehaw!!!
jevansac
4年前
Please correct me if I'm wrong, as I am still learning the SPAC process.
The S-4 was filed on January 11. This is the securities filing for the new (merged) company. The SEC has 10 days to accept the filing or notify the filer of their intent to review the filing. The SEC's average review is 30 calendar days from the date of filing. They will then ask the filer to clearify any issues they found. This back and forth may take awhile. If the SEC review finds no issue then IPOE will, asap, send out the proxies and ask shareholders to vote. This is usually a 10 day process.
It has been 25 days since the S-4 has been filed. It's possible, maybe even likely, we receive the proxy within two weeks.