File 030950
Email Chain Regarding Jawbone Investment and Tech Industry Opportunities (File 030950)
Email correspondence from September 2012 discussing a Jawbone investment involving Mort Capital Partners, Hedosophia, and Apoletto, with references to tech industry figures and potential business opportunities.
Summary
This email chain documents communications between Ian Osborne, Jeffrey Epstein, Darren Indyke, and Craig Jacoby regarding a Jawbone investment. The thread discusses investment agreement terms, investor rights, and mentions various tech executives including Reid Hoffman, Dave Morin, and Drew Houston as potential business contacts. The correspondence includes legal details about purchase agreements, preferred and common stock transactions, and negotiation points with JP Morgan regarding Series 5 Preferred shares and investor classification.
From: Ian OsborneSent: 9/7/2012 2:40:14 AMTo: Jeffrey Epstein [jeeyacation@gmail.com]Subject: Re: Jawbone/MortWhat else are you interested in? Peter is best for currency; maybe Reid Hoffman (fatty at LinkedIn) or DaveMorin (Path) or Drew Houston (Dropbox).I do believe China offers the best opportunities for Sinofsky. Problem is after Windows, pretty much everythingelse in the US is a step down. No-one else is building an OS. Alibaba or Xiaomi in China are. But if he wants tostay in the US, then probably the best options are Facebook (who may one day do their own OS), Palantir (PeterThiel's), Yahoo (where Marissa is aggressively seeking out senior talent). Then of course, there is Apple andGoogle - but I assume he doesn't want to be a traitor to Microsoft?On 7 Sep 2012, at 03:20, Jeffrey Epstein wrote:yes, who else , ? im meeting with sinofsky„ i think he wants to do different things. chinese may bedifficult becuase of us secuirty cleraenceOn Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Ian Osborne wrote:Are you back now in NY?I'm in London but staying up to watch the Obama speech. Hosain's really keen to close this out by Monday....It would help me a lot if we can finish this for once and for all.I'm in Munich Saturday, then St. Petersburg and Moscow with Eike Sunday-Tuesday (we've got some terrificmeetings lined up), London Wednesday-Thursday (including Mubadala board meeting Wed.) and then headingto SF next Friday 14th.... you will arrive on the 16th? Shall we do Peter Thiel for drinks then?Best wishes,IanOn 6 Sep 2012, at 11:52, Jeffrey Epstein wrote:Ill review all in detail , when i land tonight, in ny for the next week, you?----------Forwarded message----------From: Darren Indyke___________________Date: Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:17 PMSubject: Fwd: Jawbone/MortTo: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>HOUSE OVERSIGHT 030950Sent from my iPhoneBegin forwarded message:From: "Jacoby, Craig" -Date: September 5, 2012 7:27:21 PM EDTTo: "Darren Indyke"Cc: "Hosain Rahman" , Ian Osborne" , "Jacoby, Craig"Subject: Jawbone/MortHi Darren,Just checking back in on the Jawbone investment. Thanks for sending across your comments. If possible, wewould like to avoid a situation where we recirculate the investment agreements in place with Jawbone'sother investors, and our hope is that we can accommodate as many of your comments as possible short oftaking that step.We think that the best way to address your comments would be to have Jawbone enter into a new purchaseagreement covering both the preferred and the common stock being sold to Mort. Jawbone would make itsrepresentations and warranties anew upon the closing of the purchase agreement, so Mort would not berelying on the reps made back in June 2011, nor on the schedule of exceptions prepared in connection withthe initial closing. The new purchase agreement would have the same closing conditions that applied to theinitial closing of the JP Morgan investment.Given the affiliation between Mort, Hedosophia and Apoletto and their collective investment in preferredand common stock, we also want to propose that Mort (along with the other two parties) be treated as a"Major Investor" under the Investor Rights Agreement so long as their collective holdings of preferred andcommon stock remains at least equal to 2,000,000 shares. We intend to do this with a side letter that wouldnot require the signature of the other parties to those documents. You have already seen the draftamendment that would expand the definition of "Registrable Securities" in the investor rights agreement toinclude the common stock being purchased by Mort, and we do anticipate that our principal investors willquickly sign that document once we circulate it.You had indicated a desire to have JP Morgan approve the sale of Series 5 Preferred outside of the existingpurchase agreement. As I indicated to you on the phone, we do not think that this is necessary, but we arewilling to obtain from them an acknowledgement to that effect prior to the closing of Mort's investment.We do believe, however, that various of your other requests for change in the investor documents wouldrequire a broader amendment and restatement of the applicable documents, and some of them concernbusiness points that were the subject of specific negotiation with JP Morgan and others of our investors inprior rounds. These points include your comments to the drag along rights, the registration rights, theinformation rights and the venue provisions. We would like those terms to remain as we had negotiatedthem with JP Morgan.If you are comfortable with the approach outlined in this email, we can get you draft documents, including adraft updated Schedule of Exceptions, tomorrow for your review and approval. Please let me know.HOUSE OVERSIGHT 030951Best regards,Craig D. JacobyCooley LLP 101 California Street 5th FloorSan Francisco, CA 94111-5800E-mail:Direct: Fax ___________________Bio Practice I @cjacoby LinkedInThis email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use,disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the originalmessage. If you are the intended recipient, please be advised that the content of this message is subject to access, review and disclosure by the sender's EmailSystem Administrator.IRS Circular 230 disclosure: To ensure compliance with requirements imposed by the IRS, we inform you that any U.S. federal tax advice contained in thiscommunication (including any attachment) is not intended or written by us to be used, and cannot be used, (i) by any taxpayer for the purpose of avoiding taxpenalties under the Internal Revenue Code or (ii) for promoting, marketing or recommending to another party any transaction or matter addressed herein.***********************************************************The information contained in this communication isconfidential, may be attorney-client privileged, mayconstitute inside information, and is intended only forthe use of the addressee. 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