Profil Financier
Alan Gerry occupe actuellement le rang #2664 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur médias & divertissement). Fortune nette estimée : $1.5 B ($0 sur 24h).
Alan Gerry started building a cable TV network in upstate New York in 1956.
It became Cablevision Industries, which at its peak 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 own venture capital firm, Granite Associates, in 1996 to invest in emerging communications technologies.
Gerry bought the site of the 1969 Woodstock festival and a decade later turned the location into the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, an 800-acre cultural center
Gerry initially got into cable to increase demand for TV sets--he owned a television repair shop.