Venture capital heavyweight Alan Patricof may be 87 years old, but he’s not slowing down with plans to go to hippie fest Burning Man.
Patricof — who founded private equity firm Apax Partners and Greycroft (which has invested in Bumble, Venmo and Goop) — says he’s “determined to live to be 114!”
“I set that goal for myself after hearing a lecture many years ago by a Mount Sinai gerontologist who explained that the human body, absent major illnesses, was made to last 114 years (more recent research suggests the number is 120 for children born today),” he writes in his upcoming book, “No Red Lights.” “I liked that idea. I also like to say that if I don’t make it, people can call me a liar at my funeral — if they’re still alive to attend it.”
Patricof — who founded a new investment firm called Primetime Partners in 2020 with the intent to focus on products for older Americans — skis, bikes, runs, and works out with a trainer named Chris Schoeck, who is also a circus-style strongman and the focus of a documentary called “Bending Steel.”
“I walk faster than almost any of the under-thirties in my office,” Patricof writes. ‘I have also retained the energy and enthusiasm to attend most of the venture industry events that take place in NY, and when I can in LA. I maintain an active travel schedule both for
business and pleasure.”
And he writes, “I had planned in 2020 to attend Burning Man in the Nevada desert, determined to be the oldest person there. The COVID-19 crisis grounded those plans, but that just increases my chances of being the oldest next year when I go.”
The book is out May 3 from Post Hill Press.
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