Early Life and Career
Anderson grew up in Silver Spring, Maryland. He later moved to Fairfax, Virginia, where he graduated from Woodson High School in 1971. He did not graduate from college, though he spent some time at a number of institutions, including the University of Richmond, Northern Virginia Community College, and George Mason University.
Anderson began his telecommunications career as a salesman at MCI Communications in 1979. He entered into entrepreneurship in the 1980s and 1990s, during which he heavily invested in several telecom companies, which were later sold for large profits. Anderson bankrolled many early private space ventures and paved the way for the "astropreneurs" who followed. His most high-profile space investment was MirCorp, the 1990s start-up that briefly privatised Russia's ageing Mir space station. He reportedly pumped as much as $30 million into the venture. He also invested into Rotary Rocket.
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