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Mark Andreessen's father-in-law real estate developer John Arrillaga passes
- rmason 5y agoThis guy is significant on HN because he and his partner, Richard Peery, literally bought up all the orchards and built the modern Silicon Valley. He also made billions doing it. Here's an article from 2014 that tells the career arc of a poor boy who went to college as a basketball player on scholarship at Stanford and became one of California's largest real estate developers. https://fortune.com/2014/07/07/arrillaga-silicon-valley/ https://fortune.com/2014/07/07/arrillaga-silicon-valley/