Adam Weitsman
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About
American entrepreneur and owner and chief executive officer of Upstate Shredding-Weitsman Recycling, a scrap metal processing company headquartered in Owego, New York. He has 17 million followers on Instagram.
Before Fame
He majored in banking at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University in Brookville. In 1989, he worked at Manhattan art gallery Hirschl & Adler Folk. He opened the American Folk Art Gallery in Greenwich Village in 1991.
Trivia
He is a restauranteur. In 2021 he started Viridium LLC, a cryptocurrency mining company. He also has a collection of 19th-century American stoneware which he has been donating to the New York State Museum in Albany since 1998.
Family Life
He was born and raised in Owego, New York. In 1995, he became vice president of Ben Weitsman & Son, the scrap processing company owned by his family before eventually purchasing it from his father. After he lost his sister to cancer in the early 1990s, he quit his art-gallery career in New York City and returned to the family scrap metal business in Oswego. His and his ex-model wife Kim DeFrance have three children.
Associated With
His Instagram feed has shown him hanging out with Larsa Pippen Lil Durk, Sasha Banks, Carmelo Anthony, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Candace Owens.
