Richard Parsons built a career in business at a period when the rules of commerce were themselves changing.
The record lists Richard Parsons as CEO of the Los Angeles Clippers (1948–2024).
Richard Parsons was born at Brooklyn in 1948. His recorded nationality is United Kingdom. He was educated at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Albany Law School.
Post-war business was mass-market and increasingly multinational, managed by professionals rather than owners.
He worked as basketball player, lawyer and entrepreneur.
Enterprises outlive their founders or they do not, and that is the whole test.
That the business was built from United Kingdom shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Richard Parsons died in 2024, aged 76. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Educated at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and Albany Law School
