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"I'll Take Manhattan": How John Catsimatidis Built a $4 Billion Empire
Red Apple Group founder John Catsimatidis on turning $5 million of Manhattan real estate into $100 million, financing an empire on vendor credit, and the one major business decision he hasn't made yet.
Episode Overview
John Catsimatidis arrived in New York from a tiny Greek island at six months old, the son of a lighthouse keeper who worked as a busboy to feed his family. He left NYU eight credits short of an engineering degree for the chance to own a piece of the supermarket where he'd been working—and by his twenty-fifth birthday, he owned ten of them. Today his Red Apple Group spans…
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