John Pritzker
San Francisco, California
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Menlo College
United States
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hotels, investments
$2,600,000,000
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#877 Billionaires 2019
#328 Forbes 400 2018
John Pritzker learned the hotel business at his family's Hyatt Hotel chain; he sold his shares in Hyatt to relatives in 2010.Pritzker went on to build Commune Hotels and Resorts, a boutique hotel management company, which after a merger in 2016 became Two Roads Hospitality.In October 2018, Hyatt Hotels said it is buying Two Roads Hospitality for $480 million, plus a potential $120 million if certain outcomes are met.John's brother Thomas Pritzker is the chairman of Hyatt and his sister Gigi Pritzker is a film producer.A photography buff, he pledged $25 million to create the Pritzker Center for Photography at the SFMOMA in San Francisco.John's father Jay, uncle Robert and grandfather A.N. Pritzker built a diverse fortune that included manufacturing and service group Marmon Holdings.
Pritzker, a former Dead Head, took time off between high school and college to be part of the emerging counterculture in San Francisco.To support himself after high school, Pritzker got a union job pulling cables for cable TV in an apartment complex south of San Francisco.
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