Richard Peery

Early Silicon Valley property baron Richard "Dick" Peery partnered with John Arrillaga, buying farmland in the 1960s and turning it into office parks.Peery, who dropped out of the Stanford MBA program, had gained early experience managing his father's small property portfolio.In 2006 Peery and Arrillaga sold many of their buildings for $1.1 billion. Peery has given about $500 million to charitable foundations and donor-advised funds in his lifetime, as of 2018. His son Dave runs the Peery Foundation, whose grantees include education groups such as 10 Books A Home and Playworks in East Palo Alto, California.