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Michael G. Rubin (born 1972) is an American Internet and sports entrepreneur. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Kynetic, a direct-to-consumer e-commerce company he founded in 2011. He is also Executive Chairman at each of Kynetic’s three businesses: Fanatics, the world’s leading online seller of licensed sports merchandise;〔 Rue La La, a flash sales site; and ShopRunner, a members-only service for online shoppers. He previously founded GSI Commerce in 1998, selling it to eBay in 2011 for $2.4 billion.〔 Rubin also is a co-owner of the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team and the New Jersey Devils hockey team.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nba.com/sixers/stories/group_led_by_joshua_harris_com_2011_10_18.html )〕 Rubin has been included in the ''Forbes 400: The Richest People in America'' and the ''Forbes: The World’s Billionaires'' list. His personal wealth, as of June 2015, was valued at $2.7 billion.〔 ==Early life and education== Rubin was born to a Jewish family, the son of Paulette and Ken Rubin. His mother is a psychiatrist and his father a veterinarian.〔(AOL: "Very Different Kind of Undercover Boss" By Lisa Johnson Mandell ) March 20, 2010〕 He grew up in Lafayette Hill, PA where he started a ski-tuning shop in his parents’ basement when he was 12 and two years later - using $2,500 in bar mitzvah gifts as seed capital and a lease signed by his father - he opened a formal ski shop in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.〔 By the age of 16, he was some $200,000 in debt and was able to settle with his creditors using a $37,000 loan from his father under the condition he attend college.〔 Rubin agreed, continuing to operate the business, which grew to five ski shops before he entered college.〔 He attended Villanova University〔 for a semester before dropping out after realizing a large gain on an opportunistic transaction (buying $200,000 in overstock equipment at a deep discount with $17,000 borrowed from a friend and re-selling it for $75,000).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael G. Rubin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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