Ken Langone
$10.0B
Born
Sep 16, 1935
Age
90
Source of Wealth
Investments
Residence
Sands Point, New York
Citizenship
United States
Marital Status
Married
Children
3
Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Bucknell University; Master of Business Administration, Leonard N. Stern School of Business
- In 1978, Ken Langone made an early investment in Home Depot and became a cofounder with Arthur Blank and Bernard Marcus, now billionaires.
- The grandson of Italian immigrants, Langone dug ditches for the Long Island Expressway before he went to Bucknell University to study economics.
- After two years in the U.S. army, he made a name for himself on Wall Street, taking Ross Perot Sr.'s Electronic Data Systems public in 1968.
- Langone, who gave $200 million to NYU's hospital a decade ago, pledged $100 million to its School of Medicine in 2018. School is tuition-free.
- A devout Catholic, he donated $100,000 to the restoration of the Notre Dame Cathedral.
- He donated $10 million to NYU's part-time MBA program in 1999 and $200 million to the university's medical center in 2008, which was renamed NYU Langone Health.
- In 2018, he published his memoir "I Love Capitalism!" which quickly became a New York Times Bestseller.
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