The late co-founder of Subway left a multibillion-dollar donation to a charity run by his sons when he passed away in 2021: his half of the privately-owned sandwich chain.
Subway was started in 1965 when 17-year-old Fred DeLuca asked Dr. Peter Buck, a nuclear physicist who was a family friend, for advice on how to pay his college tuition fees. Buck invested $1,000 to help DeLuca open a sandwich shop in Bridgeport, Conn.—starting a business that now spans more than 100 countries.
