In the pitched battle between TikTok and Washington, few people stand to lose more than Jeff Yass, an American billionaire options trader who has emerged in recent years as a major donor to Republican candidates and causes. Yass co-founded the Philadelphia-based trading firm Susquehanna International Group, which owns a 15% stake in TikTok’s China-based parent […]
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Who is Jeff Yass? The billionaire donor with investments in TikTok’s parent company
In the pitched battle between TikTok and Washington, few people stand to lose more than Jeff Yass, an American billionaire options trader who has emerged in recent years as a major donor to Republican candidates and causes. Yass co-founded the Philadelphia-based trading firm Susquehanna International Group, which owns a 15% stake in TikTok’s China-based parent […]
W.Va. Academy gets a visit from the Yass Prize, which awarded it $500K in December
Feb. 2—It’s Friday morning at the West Virginia Academy in Morgantown, and a third-grader is plinking out Beethoven’s Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor (that’s “F ür Elise ” for you civilians) while seated at a keyboard in the Music Room. Down the hall in the Science Room, with a DIY rendering of the DNA […]