Elizabeth Lesly Stevens

Minor Disappearance

Onetime Internet mogul Halsey Minor, who co-founded CNET and helped fund Salesforce.com to great success, has apparently shuttered his San Francisco-based tech incubator.

Judge Barbara S. Jones of the United States District Court for the Southern District in New York earlier this week ordered Minor, who has homes in Virginia, Bel Air and Presidio Heights, to deliver a slew of artwork and personal property to New York to satisfy a judgment against him in a case involving art bought but not paid for from Sotheby's auction house.

Minor Ventures, Minor's investment vehicle and corporate home in recent years, has recently cleared out of its 12th-floor, 17,000-square-foot space at 199 Fremont, in San Francisco's trendy SoMa neighborhood. Minor left behind artwork, office equipment and cubicles, says Laura Binai, a staffer with the building's management company. 

"All their mail comes here, but no one comes to get it," she said. 

Minor Ventures is technically a subtenant of insurance giant Aon Corp., which is "hunting down Minor for rent," Binai says. An Aon spokesman declined to comment, and efforts to reach Minor have been unsuccessful.

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Elizabeth Lesly Stevens
Senior writer Elizabeth Lesly Stevens writes primarily about business and finance. A recent transplant to San Francisco, she spent many years in New York as an editor and writer at Business Week, a media-business columnist ... View Profile
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