Carl Icahn
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Carl Icahn

United States 90 years old Self-Made

Overview

Source of Wealth
Investments
Residence
Indian Creek, Florida
Organization
Founder at Icahn Capital Management
Education
New York University (Drop Out)
Princeton University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)
Marital Status
Married
Children
2

Assets

  • Icahn Enterprises L.P.
    494,784,000 shares @ $7.32
    $3,621,818,880
    IEP-US

Biography

Carl Icahn, one of Wall Street's most successful investors, has been shaking up corporate America for decades.

Icahn's primary investing vehicle is publicly traded Icahn Enterprises. He also runs a fund that invests his personal cash and money belonging to Icahn Enterprises.

Icahn grew up in Far Rockaway, Queens. He graduated from Princeton with a degree in philosophy in 1957.

Icahn began his career on Wall Street as a stockbroker for Dreyfus Corporation before buying a seat on the New York Stock Exchange in 1968.

He has donated about $200 million to what is now the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

About

Icahn was pushed by his mother to go to med school, but dropped out because he hated it.

He spent the first months of the Trump Administration advising Donald Trump on regulatory overhaul, but left the position amid controversy.