Sabet, 53, is co-founder and partner of Spark Capital since 2005, which deals with venture capital. He directed his investments in Internet networks. He was one of the first investors in the United States to bet on the future of social networks. He is one of the top hundred most prominent tech personalities according to Forbes magazine.

 Sabet has Iranian-Korean roots. He graduated from Boston College from 1987 to 1991, earned his bachelor’s degree there, and is currently a member of that school’s board of trustees.

– Lives in suburban Boston. He is married and has three children.

– Sabet has been investing in Internet companies for almost two decades. Since 2008 he has been a shareholder of the then still little-known Internet social network Twitter, and from the same year he also served on its board of directors until 2011. During this period, among other things, it rejected an offer from rival Facebook to buy Twitter worth $500 million. For this reason, Forbes magazine called him a “prudent investor” in 2017.

– Previously, he worked as a senior executive in several technology start-ups in Silicon Valley, California and Massachusetts.

– Sabet is a regular contributor to the Democratic Party, to which he has previously donated thousands to tens of thousands of dollars.