A quiet investor becomes a media powerhouse everyone and nobody knows

What a strange story. It seems like it has to be a hoax, but there's a lot of news mentions about the guy after 2007 or so.

The guy seems like a James Bond villain -- doesn't every briefing by M start with "nobody knows how he makes his money, but he's taken the world of $X by storm"?. He even looks like a movie star, is engaged to a movie star, and dresses in mostly in black.

Has anyone considered the possibility that he was funded by the Israeli government? This would be one of the smartest ways to influence the US media, to finance a genuinely charismatic investor in media companies.

did anyone else think that a "modest inheritance" was going to be a bit smaller than 10 million dollars? with that much money, its [relatively] easy to make more money -- granted to turn it into billions you have to be extremely savvy (and probably a little lucky) but when i started reading i thought this was more of a rags to riches story, not a really rich to absurdly wealthy story haha.

This was a tough one. I wanted to pull out the "how is this hacker news?" hammer, but then decided I want to be this guy, and probably wouldn't have heard about him unless someone posted here.

"The loudest one in the room is usually the weakest". Noone is hearing Nevo. There are very well connected players, like Nevo, who do not like to be in the public eye. Nevo shows that social skills matter even more than we think (to bad for an introvert like me).

EDIT: Read "How To Win Friends and Influence People" by D. Carnegie. (Pick an old-less-edited version from your local library).

Sounds like he has a Y-combinator style of investing in media companies. Relatively "small" investments (1MM in his case), but outsize influence in his ability to make personal connections between people who can complement each other.