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No he didn't. This is what the article says, "On Saturday, CEO and co-founder John Matze said one of the privately-owned company's early investors is Rebekah Mercer"

What's more, I've also read the Wall Street Journal article on the subject which made it even clearer.

"Ms. Mercer, in a post on Parler after a version of this article was published, said that her father had no involvement or ownership of the company."

Here's the source post

https://parler.com/post/6e474ef190344fdbab8557b3ebf85ade

She later posted: "My father, Robert Mercer, has neither involvement with, nor ownership of, Parler."

https://parler.com/post/90d032f4e22243fd82f7dd9a5b27208d

She runs the Mercer Family Foundation through which her father donated over $100million to rightwing propaganda causes. Point being that they work closely together and have shared ideologies.

Ohh wow! Did you actually read the article?

It's daughter did, not him, she said so in a post on Parler.