Today's Inspiration by Vanessa: Mr. Alan Gerry (Founder of Cablevision Industries)
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Today's Inspiration by
🔥@vaniccilondon🔥 :
Alan Gerry 🇺🇸
Founder of Cablevision Industries
Net Worth: 💲1.4 Billion
Alan Gerry (born December 24, 1929) is an American billionaire and founder of Cablevision Industries.
Gerry started building a cable TV network in upstate New York in 1956, which later became Cablevision Industries. At its peak, the company had 64 cable systems in 18 states.
Gerry sold Cablevision Industries to Time Warner in 1996 for a reported $2.7 billion; he pocketed an estimated $900 million. He used that money to start his own venture capital firm, the Granite Associates, in 1996 to invest in emerging communications technologies.
After a 17-year absence from cable, Gerry joined the advisory board of BCI Broadband in 2013.
Gerry created the Gerry Foundation, an organization established to stimulate economic activity and revitalization in Sullivan County, New York. Gerry purchased and resurrected the original 1969 Woodstock Festival site, naming it the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in Bethel, New York.
Gerry also donated $10 million to the National Cable Center in Denver. He also endowed a chair of orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, established the Paul Gerry Dialysis Center in Sayre, Pennsylvania, funded the addition of a wing on his local hospital, and is involved in a program at Boston University to find a cure for amyloidosis.
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