The Story of BlackRock By: Abhijay Bhosale Very few people know about BlackRock. In simple terms, it's an investment management company. It exists to make money. And guess what? They're the biggest one out there. Well, how big? 10. Trillion. Dollars. They have over 10 trillion dollars (that's $10,000,000,000,000) in assets in a a wide variety of fields. The whole ordeal can be narrowed down to three things. The Mastermind, The Masterplan, and The Master's Servant. The Mastermind: Larry Fink Larry Fink is the man behind all of this. Though he owns BlackRock with 6 other people, he definitely is the face of BlackRock and defaulted to as the CEO. Born in 1952, he grew up in a rather insignificant town called Van Nuys in California. Although his family wasn't explicitly said to be poor, his family's income came from a shoe shop Fink's dad owned. After pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in political Science at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), he de...
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