Citadel billionaire Ken Griffin's son told him to buy a rare copy of the US Constitution— driving him to splash out $43.2 million to outbid a crypto group
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Ken Griffin said his son convinced him to buy a rare copy of the US Constitution, which the billionaire hedge-fund manager snapped up last month for $43.2 million, outbidding a crypto collective.
The Citadel founder upset some in the crypto community when he splashed out on one of the 13 surviving copies of the original 1787 printing of the historic document. That's because he beat ConstitutionDAO, which had raised more than $40 million from around 17,000 donors.
Griffin told Bloomberg in an interview that he asked the crypto group if they wanted to have joint governance, but they couldn't come to an agreement.
«I was sitting at home in New York, and my son calls me to say, 'Dad, you have to buy the Constitution,'» he
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