Khosla family agrees to buy Seattle Seahawks for $9.6 billion
The Sun Microsystems co-founder is moving from 49ers minority investor to prospective NFL control owner, pending league approval.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Primary source: Sportico
Why it matters
The sale puts Silicon Valley founder wealth at the center of the NFL's next ownership era, where scarce team control assets are being priced more like permanent infrastructure than traditional operating businesses.
Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla) and his family have agreed to buy the Seattle Seahawks from the estate of Paul Allen, a proposed transfer of one of the NFL's most valuable franchises from one generation of technology wealth to another.…