Martin Wygod, a Winner on Wall Street and the Racetrack, Dies at 84 [The New York Times]
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Martin J. Wygod, a Wall Street whiz who graduated from walking horses after races to owning and breeding championship thoroughbreds when he made millions from investing in online companies that sold pharmaceuticals by mail and pruned medical paperwork, died on April 12 in San Diego. He was 84.His daughter, Emily Bushnell, said he died in a hospital from complications of lung disease.Raised near two racetracks in suburban New York and mentored by a software pioneer, an investor and a gambler, Mr. Wygod was said to have been the youngest managing partner of a New York Stock Exchange brokerage in the 1960s. He became a millionaire before he was 30, and in 1993 hesold Medco Containment Services to Merck for $6 billionsale netted Mr. Wygod“The name of the game in the future is going to be information,” Jan Buck, chairman of Princeton Group , a pharmaceutical industry consulting firm, commented on the sale toThe New York TimesImageMr. Wygod, who at the time was the chairman WebMD, outside h
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