Jerry Greenfield is one of the most popular and richest Entrepreneur who was born on March 14, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. The co-founders of the Ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s with his Co-founder of the Ice Cream company Ben & Jerry’s with his friend Ben Cohen., his friend. Co-founder of the Ice Cream company Ben & Jerry’s with his friend Ben Cohen..
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Jerry Greenfield grew up on Long Island and attended Merrick Avenue Junior High School, where he met Ben Cohen in 1963. Greenfield and Cohen both attended Calhoun High School and remained friends until they both graduated and left Long Island to attend college.
After graduating in 1973, Greenfield failed to get into medical school. At this point, Greenfield decided to move back to New York where he shared an apartment with Cohen and worked as a lab technician. In 1974, Greenfield was again rejected from medical school and decided to move to North Carolina with his future wife, Elizabeth Skarie, and continued to work as a lab technician.
He married Elizabeth Skarie in 1987. He had a child called Tyrone.
