Kenneth C. Griffin
American billionaire hedge fund manager (born 1968)
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The opportunity to bring Carnegie Mellon to Miami places our city at the heart of humanistic and scientific advancement and amplifies the University's international reach and impact,
- Griffin said in a releaseCNBCcnbc.com/2026/09…
- Griffin said in a statementInternational Business Times AUibtimes.com.au/ken/griffin…
- said Griffin, who is joining Carnegie Mellon’s Board of Trustees, in a news releaseThe Independentindependent.co.uk/news/miami…
Are we going to educate the future members of the House and the Senate and the leaders of IBM? Or are we going to educate a group of young men and women who are just caught up in a rhetoric of oppressor and oppressee and this is not fair and frankly just like whiny snowflakes?"
- Griffin saidCNBCcnbc.com/2026/09…
Those of us in the business community need to support both our institutions of higher education and to be actively engaged in how do we better our schools,
- Griffin saidNBC Newsnbcnews.com/news/us…
Is this a repudiation of Harvard?”
- Mr. Griffin said of the Carnegie Mellon contributionThe New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/09…
This is going to make a really important change in Carnegie Mellon’s ability to touch more lives, impact more people and make a difference for our country,
- Mr. Griffin said in an interview in a Miami skyscraperThe New York Timesnytimes.com/2026/09…
Their most important education will not be a knowledge base that they acquire at university,
- Griffin saidNBC Newsnbcnews.com/news/us…
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Ken Griffin donates record $3bn to Carnegie Mellon in push for Miami campus
Financial Timesft.com/content/3b5b46d7…NBC News correspondent Stephanie Gosk spoke with Griffin and Carnegie Mellon president Farnam Jahanian in an exclusive interview on “TODAY” that aired Wednesday about the donation aimed at preparing students for the most rapidly transforming economy in history
NBC Newsnbcnews.com/news/us…NYC business owner kickstarts million dollar campaign to combat Mamdani-driven business exodus
Fox Newsfoxnews.com/politics/nyc…A proposed pied-à-terre tax in New York City and promises of further tax hikes on the local ultrawealthy are keeping South Florida real estate agents and developers confident that rich New Yorkers will increasingly flock to the region, they told Newsweek
Newsweeknewsweek.com/mamdanis/tax…Zohran Mamdani faces backlash over 'creepy,' 'unethical' video filmed outside billionaire Ken Griffin's home
Fox Newsfoxnews.com/media/zohran…The skyscraper, located on ritzy Central Park South and built at a cost of $1.5 billion, seemed a fitting symbol for Mamdani’s video announcing that New York City at long last would institute a so-called pied-à-terre tax on second homes of the city’s wealthiest
CNNcnn.com/2026/05…New York real estate titan likens the phrase ‘tax the rich’ to racial slurs
Guardiantheguardian.com/us/news…Griffin criticizes Mamdani targeting him in NYC's proposed tax on second homes
Reutersreuters.com/business/hedge…SEC moves to scrap quarterly reporting requirement
Financial Timesft.com/content/3560d1e3…Under current SEC rules, in place since the 1970s, companies are required to report earnings after each quarter and annually
NBC Newsnbcnews.com/business/business…Amazon-backed nuclear developer X-energy surges 27% in trading debut
Financial Timesft.com/content/905d06cf…X-energy’s stock popped today in its debut on the Nasdaq, opening at $30.11 before closing at $29.20, up 27% over its initial public offering of $23 per share
TechCrunchtechcrunch.com/2026/04…Top Republican Leader Warns Donald Trump Needs Iran Exit Plan
Newsweeknewsweek.com/top/republican…Billionaire US investor Ken Griffin accuses Trump White House of ‘enriching’ itself
Guardiantheguardian.com/us/news…Griffin calls for increased fiscal discipline, notes robust labor market
Reutersreuters.com/markets/wealth…Trump's Golden Dome Plan Needs Greenbacks More than Greenland
The Wall Street Journalwsj.com/livecoverage/greenland…Hedge fund chief Ken Griffin criticises Trump’s pursuit of Greenland
Financial Timesft.com/content/95089e18…Howard Lutnick’s Davos speech ends in chaos after heckling and ‘walkouts’
The Independentindependent.co.uk/news/world…U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has decried globalization as a “failed policy” that has harmed America's workers and has encouraged other nations to pursue their own version of President Donald Trump’s economic nationalist approach to international affairs
Newsweeknewsweek.com/us/tells…Davos-Citadel CEO Griffin says US has 'frayed' relationship with European allies
Reutersreuters.com/world/davos…Griffin's comments, made at the World Economic Forum in Davos, come after President Donald Trump vowed over the weekend to implement a wave of increasing tariffs on European allies until the United States was allowed to buy Greenland, escalating a row over the future of Denmark's vast Arctic island
Reutersreuters.com/world/davos…Hedge fund chief Ken Griffin criticises Trump’s pursuit of Greenland
Financial Timesft.com/content/95089e18…Griffin's comments, made at the World Economic Forum in Davos, come after President Donald Trump vowed over the weekend to implement a wave of increasing tariffs on European allies until the United States was allowed to buy Greenland, escalating a row over the future of Denmark's vast Arctic island
Reutersreuters.com/world/davos…