Founder and boss of RedBird, an American investment firm with $12bn in assets under management. He began his career at Goldman Sachs. He bristles when his firm is compared to conventional private equity; at a time when private giants are writing bigger cheques, Cardinale wants to show that smaller specialist funds can reshape whole industries. He hopes to build RedBird's investments into a few big publicly traded businesses that can become sources of capital for the leagues, teams and studios of the future—in his words, "the new Walt Disney".
We don't know who it was that discovered water, but we're pretty sure that it wasn't a fish.