The San Francisco 49ers appear to be getting a few new, extremely wealthy owners — and the team didn’t have to look far to find them.
The families of Bay Area tech investors Vinod Khosla, Byron Deeter and Will Griffith are buying about 6% of the 49ers in a deal that values the franchise at more than $8.5 billion, according to a Thursday report from Sportico citing an anonymous insider. The mega-deal — if those numbers hold up, the trio will be spending at least $500 million — would see the York family, which owns 97% of the franchise, part with their largest chunk yet.