Patrick Drahi
$6.49B
$25.2M (0.4%)
as of 04/01/25
About Patrick Drahi
Telecoms magnate Patrick Drahi is the founder and owner of multinational Altice NV, which he took private in January 2021 at a $7.3 billion valuation.
Drahi built Altice with more than 20 acquisitions of lagging cable and mobile operators and has expanded further with highly leveraged deals.
In 2021, he spent approximately $4.2 billion to purchase an 18% stake in British telecom giant BT Group. Three years later, he sold it to India's Bharti Global.
He stormed the U.S. in 2015 by buying a 70% stake in cable operator Suddenlink for $9 billion and snapping up Cablevision for $17.7 billion.
Those U.S. entities were spun off into Altice USA, which went public in June 2017.
Personal stats
Citizenship
FranceSource of wealth
TelecomResidence
Zermatt, SwitzerlandMarital status
MarriedBirth date
08/20/63 (age 61)Number of children
4Self-made
self-madePatrick Drahi’s fortune is worth
108K
troy ounces of gold
100K
median U.S. household
65K
median U.S. income
0.13%
U.S. credit card volume
0.026%
GDP of the United States
0.019%
United States debt
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Drahi owns auction house Sotheby's, which he took private in 2019.
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Financial assets
NYSE | ATUS-US
Altice USALONDON | BT.A-GB
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