Italian American Heritage Month: Kenneth Langone

Kenneth Langone is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist, best known as a co-founder of The Home Depot and the founder and CEO of the investment firm Invemed Associates LLC. 

Born into a working-class Italian-American family, Langone overcame financial hardship to attend Bucknell University and earn an MBA from NYU, eventually becoming a major figure on Wall Street. 

He is a significant donor to New York University, which renamed its medical center the NYU Langone Medical Center in his honor, and authored the book "I Love Capitalism!"