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John Textor
John Charles Textor (born September 30, 1965) is an American businessman and the founder of Eagle Football Holdings. Through Eagle Football, he is the majority owner of Botafogo (Brazil), Olympique Lyonnais (France), and RWDM Brussels (Belgium). Under his ownership, Botafogo won the 2024 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A and the 2024 Copa Libertadores, while RWDM earned promotion to the Belgian Pro League in 2023. He previously held a minority stake in Crystal Palace, which he sold in July 2025 for a reported £190 million.
Textor is also the former executive chairman of the streaming television service FuboTV. He has been recognized for his contributions to digital media and entertainment, and was referred to by The New York Times as "Hollywood's Virtual Reality Guru" for his early work in visual effects and immersive technology.
Textor was born in 1965 and is a member of the extended du Pont family.
He has stated that he grew up in a middle-class family in the Palm Beach area and spent summers working for freight delivery companies.[citation needed]
In his youth, Textor competed in freestyle skateboarding events in Florida with the Sims Skateboards team. He was listed as a competitor in 1978 issues of National Skateboard Review representing Sims, and archival results show he won the Boys Freestyle division and placed second in Junior Men's Freestyle at the 1978 Pepsi Skateboard Team Challenge in Tampa. According to Craig Snyder's A Secret History of the Ollie, Textor was "one of the few who surpassed multiple world champion Rodney Mullen in freestyle competition during" the late 1970s, and Snyder's companion contest index also records Florida events that summer featuring junior and boys divisions. A 2023 profile in Brazil's UOL Esporte likewise reported that Textor won the 1978 Pepsi Skateboard Team Challenge in Tampa, defeating Mullen in freestyle competition.
Textor has said he retired from competitive skateboarding in the early 1980s after sustaining a head injury, which led him to focus on education and technology interests.
Textor's early business career was shaped through Wyndcrest Partners, the private investment firm he founded in the mid-1990s. In the years that followed, he used Wyndcrest as the vehicle for a series of investments in internet and entertainment companies, including Art Technology Group, BabyUniverse, and the visual effects studio Digital Domain.
Having acquired Sims Snowboards in 1996, Textor was the chairman and principal owner. During his tenure, and utilizing the trademarks owned by his partner and snowboard pioneer Tom Sims, he created the World Snowboarding Championship at Whistler, British Columbia.
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John Textor
John Charles Textor (born September 30, 1965) is an American businessman and the founder of Eagle Football Holdings. Through Eagle Football, he is the majority owner of Botafogo (Brazil), Olympique Lyonnais (France), and RWDM Brussels (Belgium). Under his ownership, Botafogo won the 2024 Campeonato Brasileiro Série A and the 2024 Copa Libertadores, while RWDM earned promotion to the Belgian Pro League in 2023. He previously held a minority stake in Crystal Palace, which he sold in July 2025 for a reported £190 million.
Textor is also the former executive chairman of the streaming television service FuboTV. He has been recognized for his contributions to digital media and entertainment, and was referred to by The New York Times as "Hollywood's Virtual Reality Guru" for his early work in visual effects and immersive technology.
Textor was born in 1965 and is a member of the extended du Pont family.
He has stated that he grew up in a middle-class family in the Palm Beach area and spent summers working for freight delivery companies.[citation needed]
In his youth, Textor competed in freestyle skateboarding events in Florida with the Sims Skateboards team. He was listed as a competitor in 1978 issues of National Skateboard Review representing Sims, and archival results show he won the Boys Freestyle division and placed second in Junior Men's Freestyle at the 1978 Pepsi Skateboard Team Challenge in Tampa. According to Craig Snyder's A Secret History of the Ollie, Textor was "one of the few who surpassed multiple world champion Rodney Mullen in freestyle competition during" the late 1970s, and Snyder's companion contest index also records Florida events that summer featuring junior and boys divisions. A 2023 profile in Brazil's UOL Esporte likewise reported that Textor won the 1978 Pepsi Skateboard Team Challenge in Tampa, defeating Mullen in freestyle competition.
Textor has said he retired from competitive skateboarding in the early 1980s after sustaining a head injury, which led him to focus on education and technology interests.
Textor's early business career was shaped through Wyndcrest Partners, the private investment firm he founded in the mid-1990s. In the years that followed, he used Wyndcrest as the vehicle for a series of investments in internet and entertainment companies, including Art Technology Group, BabyUniverse, and the visual effects studio Digital Domain.
Having acquired Sims Snowboards in 1996, Textor was the chairman and principal owner. During his tenure, and utilizing the trademarks owned by his partner and snowboard pioneer Tom Sims, he created the World Snowboarding Championship at Whistler, British Columbia.