Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Saturday, February 7th.

Today on Forbes, Inside Jeffrey Epstein's Secretive Silicon Valley Investments.

In 2010, Jeffrey Epstein received an email from a contact looking for advice on investing in a prominent venture capital firm.

He had no in.

According to an email published by the Department of Justice, he wrote, quote, Silicon Valley is another world. But within a few years,

the disgraced financier would be trading emails with some of tech's most powerful figures,

from Elon Musk and Sergey Brin to Bill Gates and Reid Hoffman, and boasting in a 2016 email

of, quote, lots of friends in Silicon Valley.

Now, newly released emails from the Department of Justice reveal further details on how Epstein

translated an incredible level of access to some of the wealthiest and most powerful

tech titans of our time into personal investments, including checks to both venture funds

and major startups like Coinbase. But they also highlight how despite his network, he ultimately

made surprisingly few deals, and in some cases may have left hundreds of millions of dollars

on the table.

A source familiar with Epstein's thinking says, quote, he wasn't very good at tech investing.

The source added that despite Epstein's networking with tech CEOs and venture capitalists,

quote, I'm not sure that was his world, and that's why I don't think he did very well in it.

That these tech billionaires appear in the latest dump of documents does not mean they did anything illegal in maintaining contact with Epstein.

Many of those named have denied or downplayed ties to Epstein.

However, it does raise uncomfortable questions about why so many sought his counsel, funds, and advice

long after his 2008 sex crime conviction.

One of Epstein's earliest and most prolific correspondence in tech was PayPal founder and

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