Ken Langone

Kenneth Gerard Langone Sr., KSG is an American billionaire businessman, investor, and philanthropist, best known for organizing financing for the founders of The Home Depot. He is a major donor to the Republican Party. He has an estimated net worth of $3.4 billion as of February 2018 according to Forbes.

• 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 August. School is tuition-free.
• A devout Catholic, he donated $100,000 to the restoration of the Notre Dame Cathedral.