David Walentas
American real estate developer
David Walentas (born 1938) is an American billionaire real estate developer. Walentas founded Two Trees Management in 1968.
Early life and education
Walentas was born in Rochester, New York. His father was of Lithuanian descent. When he was five, his postal worker father suffered a stroke in his 30s and was left paralyzed. His mother had to work two jobs, and David and his older brother Peter went to live on nearby farms, "milking cows and shoveling shit," as "an indentured orphan." He eventually went to the University of Virginia and received a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering. He worked at Thule Air Base in Greenland as a laborer for a summer to pay off his student loans and then spent time traveling through Europe. After he returned to the U.S., he accepted a job with the Peace Corps but instead attended the University of Virginia Darden School of Business where he graduated in 1964. He then took a job with Singer Corporation where he worked in Japan and Australia. While in Asia, he met a schoolteacher from Rochester who was teaching in the Philippines; they married in Japan but the marriage only lasted a year.
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