A correction to an earlier model of this text has been appended to the tip of the article.
Famend Silicon Valley actual property developer and philanthropist John Arrillaga Sr. has died. He was 84.
Arrillaga’s son-in-law, enterprise capitalist Marc Andreessen, confirmed the dying through Twitter.
“RIP my father-in-law and hero John Arrillaga, 1937-2022,” Andreessen stated a publish.
In a Medium publish, Arrillaga’s daughter, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, stated her father “handed away peacefully” on Monday whereas being held by his second spouse, Gioia Fasi Arrillaga, and his two kids, Laura and her brother John Arrillaga Jr.
John Arrillaga Sr. was a well-known philanthropist. In 2013, he made a $151 million present to his alma mater, Stanford College, the most important thus far at the moment from a dwelling donor.
“He believed that profitable philanthropy means combining monetary assets with brainpower, expertise, and networks to amplify the variety of lives he can contact and assist remodel,” Arrillaga-Andreessen wrote. “He believed that ‘one ought to at all times give as a lot as one can, for the extra one offers, the extra life offers one in return.’ ”
On the time of his dying, John Arrillaga Sr. had constructed and donated greater than 200 initiatives and buildings, together with the Frances Arrillaga Alumni Middle and the Arrillaga Household Sports activities Middle, in line with his daughter. He was additionally answerable for 38 absolutely endowed athletic scholarships and 19 absolutely endowed educational scholarships at Stanford.
He additionally helped rebuild most of Stanford’s athletic services, together with Maples Pavilion and the Stanford soccer stadium.
As an actual property developer, John Arrillaga Sr. partnered with Richard Peery for 50 years at their agency, Peery Arrillaga, in line with his daughter. They produced lots of the area’s most distinguished company campuses, totaling greater than 20 million sq. ft.
“Arrillaga was the artistic visionary, whereas Peery was their monetary and authorized mastermind,” his daughter wrote. “Collectively they partnered on the negotiations, and John was often known as ‘the hardest dealmaker in Silicon Valley,’ given his concentrate on development and leasing.”
Arrillaga-Andreessen stated her father was additionally a devoted household man.
“He by no means missed one among his kids’s sporting occasions, award ceremonies and talked with each his kids on daily basis,” she wrote.
John Arrillaga Sr. was born in 1937 to skilled soccer goalie Gabriel Arrillaga, who later turned a laborer within the Los Angeles space, and Freda Arrillaga, a former nurse. After graduating from Morningside Excessive Faculty in Inglewood, he attended Stanford on a basketball scholarship and majored in geography, in line with his daughter.
Arrillaga-Andreessen stated her father went on to journey the world whereas taking part in for the nationwide basketball crew of Spain. He additionally briefly performed for the San Francisco Warriors, however give up when he realized skilled basketball “wouldn't afford him the household life that he desired.”
After briefly promoting insurance coverage, he saved sufficient cash to buy his first run-down business constructing and stuck it up himself earlier than incomes sufficient in hire to purchase a second constructing, in line with his daughter.
John Arrillaga Sr. met his first spouse, Frances C. Arrillaga, a couple of years after she graduated from Stanford.
“John and Frances Arrillaga had a lovely partnership of household, service, and generosity,” Arrillaga-Andreessen wrote.
“Collectively, they embodied the philanthropic spirit at its most interesting, creating the Arrillaga Basis and contributing to numerous causes,” she continued. “They have been an unbelievable crew and continued his extraordinary generosity all through the Silicon Valley Group.”
A number of years after Frances Arrillaga died, John Arrillaga Sr. met and married Gioia Arrillaga.
John Arrillaga Sr. is survived by Gioia Arrillaga; John Arrillaga Jr. and his spouse Justine and their three sons; Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen and her husband Marc Andreessen and their son; his late brother Gabriel’s spouse Kay Arrillaga and their three sons; William Arrillaga and his spouse Linda and their two sons; Alice Arrillaga Kalomas and her husband Anthony Kalomas and their 4 kids; and Mary Arrillaga Danna and her husband Angelo Danna and their son.
In lieu of flowers or presents, the household inspired individuals to donate to a nonprofit of their alternative in Arrillaga’s honor. For extra details about and to register for his celebration of life, e mail johnmemorial@gmail.com.
Correction: January 27, 2022 An earlier model of this text incorrectly reported the kind of scholarships John Arrillaga Sr. had funded at Stanford College. Arrillaga Sr. was answerable for 38 absolutely endowed athletic scholarships and 19 absolutely endowed educational scholarships.
Correction: January 27, 2022 An earlier model of this text incorrectly reported the kind of scholarships John Arrillaga Sr. had funded at Stanford College. Arrillaga Sr. was answerable for 38 absolutely endowed athletic scholarships and 19 absolutely endowed educational scholarships.