Casino 1995 Reception
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Sheldon Adelson embodied everything conservative Americans want the country to be: He was a self-made billionaire, a mega-donor to the Republican Party and a prominent champion of the U.S.-Israel alliance.
The casino mogul died at age 87 after a long illness, according to an announcement from his family and the company he founded, the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, on Tuesday.
An American dream come true
Born in Boston to a poor immigrant family, Adelson's extraordinary rise to becoming one of the wealthiest people in the world has been hailed a 'true American dream.' With thrift, drive and risk-taking, the son of a Lithuanian taxi driver began selling newspapers at 12 and started a vending machine business at 16. After dozens of attempts at starting a business in various fields, the several-time entrepreneur made his first fortune in 1979 as one of the founders of computer industry expo COMDEX in Las Vegas.
With this first bucket of gold, Adelson got a foothold in Sin City, where he would later purchase the Sands Hotel and Casino in 1989 and turned it into the largest privately-owned convention center in the U.S. In 1995, he sold COMDEX to Japan's SoftBank Corporation for more than $800 million. 'Sheldon wanted to be richer than Bill Gates. He always wanted to be No. 1,' a former CEO of Comdex told The New York Times in 2008.
Casino 1995 Reception
Now a Las Vegas landmark, the Venetian hotel casino opened in 1999 on the ground where the Sands used to stand, complete with its own Grand Canal and gondoliers. But Adelson's ambitions didn't stop there. Across the world in China, Adelson saw a historic opportunity after the 1999 handover of Macao to take the Venetian to the former Portuguese colony. That turned out to be one of his most visionary decisions, which would see Macao overtaking Las Vegas to be the world's highest-grossing gambling hub, an even bigger money-spinner for Adelson's casino empire.
Having made his name taking chances in life – and often getting it right – Adelson transformed the gambling capitals in the West and the East into the iconic cities they are today.