Dan Gilbert (2012)

Entrepreneur Dan Gilbert emerged as one of the central figures in Detroit’s 21st-century revival. Through massive investment in downtown real estate and the relocation of thousands of employees, he helped catalyze new economic energy in the city. His work represents a modern form of civic activism—using capital, optimism, and risk-taking to rebuild Detroit. I became personally acquainted with Dan when Quicken Loans was the first major investor in my solar engineering start-up ‘Greenlancer.com’, co-founded in 2011.

Photograph by Douglas Elbinger
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