14 Facts About David Gottesman

David Sanford "Sandy" Gottesman was an American businessman, billionaire, and philanthropist.

David Gottesman had two siblings, Milton Gottesman and Alice Gottesman Bayer.

David Gottesman was a nephew of American pulp-paper merchant, financier, and philanthropist Samuel Gottesman.

David Gottesman joined the US Army after high school and was first sent to Princeton University to study engineering, before being deployed to the South Pacific theater in 1945.

David Gottesman then undertook postgraduate studies at Harvard Business School, graduating with a Master of Business Administration in 1950.

In 1964, David Gottesman founded the investment advisory firm First Manhattan Co.

The trio soon concluded that this acquisition had been a "terrible mistake," and David Gottesman oversaw its reselling, at only a minor loss.

David Gottesman later commented, "There probably has never been a better return on any stock held for 44 years in the history of Wall Street".

David Gottesman estimated that by 2012, they had been worth 6,000 times their original value.

In 2008, David Gottesman donated $25 million to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

David Gottesman's donation is one of the largest that has ever been made to an educational institution in the United States.

David Gottesman has a bachelor's degree from Barnard College, as well as a master's degree in Developmental Education and an Ed.

David Gottesman served as a trustee of the Mount Sinai Medical Center and was Vice Chairman and trustee of the American Museum of Natural History.

David Gottesman died at his home in Rye on September 28,2022, at the age of 96.