Antonio Gracias
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Investments
- Industry
- Finance & Investments
- Residence
- Chicago, Illinois
- Education
- Georgetown School of Foreign Service (Master)University of Chicago Law School (JD)
- Marital Status
- Divorced
- Children
- 3
Assets
- Tesla1,083,565 shares @ --TSLA-US
Biography
Antonio Gracias is the founder and CEO of Chicago-based growth equity firm Valor Equity Partners, which has $16 billion in gross assets.
In 1995, Gracias was in law school at the University of Chicago when he founded Valor's predecessor, MG Capital.
A major Musk loyalist, Gracias met Musk through a mutual friend around 2000; Valor became one of Tesla's first institutional investors in 2005.
Much of Gracias? wealth comes from his shares of Tesla, where he served as a director from 2007 to 2021.
He's known for operationally-involved investing, even sleeping on Tesla's factory floor to work through manufacturing and supply chain issues.
About
Gracias? first investment was $300 worth of Apple stock that his mother helped him buy when he was in middle school; He still holds it today.
Gracias and Musk have gone on family vacations and ski trips together.