Founder and boss of RedBird, an American investment firm with $12bn in assets under management. He began his career at Goldman Sachs. Mr Cardinale bristles when his firm is compared to conventional private equity; at a time when private giants are writing bigger cheques, he wants to show that smaller specialist funds can reshape whole industries. He hopes to build RedBird's investments into a few big publicly traded businesses that can become sources of capital for the leagues, teams and studios of the future—in his words, "the new Walt Disney".
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