History of Sheldon Adelson

Sheldon Adelson

Sheldon Adelson's fortune is estimated at 23.3 billion dollars is the son of a taxi driver and asked for $ 200 an uncle to sell newspapers at age 12. He left college in New York to become a field reporter. He created his first fortune by selling a computer company that created the middle of 1980, it sold to a Japanese bank for $ 862 million in 1995.

In Las Vegas hotel and casino purchased the Sands by 128 million, pulled and built the Venetian hotel and casino by 1.5 billion. Adelson changed the way we do business in Las Vegas by encouraging people to gamble going to conventions. Sold suites for $ 250 a night, said big retailers to hotels and restaurants chefss celebrities.


In Asia, opened the Sands Macau casino worth $ 265 million, recovered the entire investment in just a year and has just revealed that the Venetian Macau will build soon. Last year he won the coveted gaming license in Singapore.