Robert Kraft Talks Sports, Sneakers, and His Friendship With Trump
The billionaire Patriots owner on how the Boston Lobsters prepared him for prime time.
Robert Kraft, chief executive officer of the Kraft Group and the owner of the New England Patriots, was interviewed on May 2 in New York City by Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Megan Murphy. Following are excerpts from their discussion, which appear in the May 15-21, 2017, edition of the magazine.
Megan Murphy: You got a scholarship to Columbia, went on to Harvard Business School, started at the paper company Rand-Whitney, and founded a sprawling empire now worth $5 billion by the latest estimates. Tell us about the struggles you went through in your early years, and the risks you took, and how the companies you started were part of a trajectory.