Sixty-eight year old billionaire hedge fund veteran Glenn Dubin got his start far away from the looming buildings of Wall Street in the same Washington Heights, Manhattan, neighborhood that produced playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda, slugger Alex Rodriguez and performer Harry Belafonte. “There wasn’t much philanthropy growing up in Washington Heights. If anything, we would be the recipient, as opposed to the philanthropist,” Dubin told me in a boardroom high above Midtown in the offices of his firm. Today, his family office, Dubin & Co., backs early and late-stage growth companies, including Brex and Scale AI.

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