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.
[2] He worked in Thule, Greenland as a laborer for a summer to pay off his student loans and then spent time traveling through Europe.
[4] 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.
[4] 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.
[4] As the neighborhood was zoned industrial, his plan was to convert the buildings into back office space for Wall Street.
[4] He was on the verge of signing a deal with Lewis Glucksman of Lehman Brothers but it collapsed after their sale to American Express.