Randy Jones | June 5, 2009
Jonathan Nelson learned the power of harnessing your unique talents in a music class in college, and it has served him well. He barely passed the class—appreciating Beethoven is harder when you don’t have perfect pitch—but now, as CEO of Providence Equity Partners, he is not only the richest man in Providence, he is the wealthiest man in the state. (It may be the smallest state in the Union, but there’s still some Texas-size money in Rhode Island; Nelson is worth at least $2 billion.) PEP acquired the movie studio MGM a few years ago, and the big question, he told me, was “What would we do with James Bond—who will be the next Bond?”
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Tags: Barbara Broccoli, Casino Royale, Cubby Broccoli, Daniel Craig, Ian Fleming, James Bond, Jonathan Nelson, MGM, perfect pitch, Providence Equity Partners
Randy Jones | June 1, 2009
It was Jonathan Nelson, the richest man in Providence, Rhode Island, who gave me the perfect phrase for the second commandment in The Richest Man in Town. We’ve all heard the advice, “Know thyself.” Nelson, like many of the RMITs I interviewed, took that very wise advice to the next level. He learned the importance of the second commandment in school—in a course on Beethoven at Brown University—but this lesson was not on the syllabus.
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Tags: Brown University, Hartley Peavey, Jonathan Nelson, Meridian, Mississippi, perfect pitch, Providence, Providence Equity Partners, Rhode Island
