After weeks of rumored declining health, the founder and owner of the Red Bull corporation Dietrich Mateschitz died on Saturday at the age of 78. The passing of the Austrian business tycoon who built a small soda brand into a global commercial empire over the last several decades leaves a great deal of questions, many of which won’t be answered for some time.
Mateschitz was theoretically the owner of the soccer club this website covers as well as numerous other sporting entities across the planet. But delayed and delicately-worded public statements from New York and all of Red Bull’s corporate entities illustrated the sporting empire’s status more so as part of a corporate machine Mateschitz happened to own rather than a giant box of his own personal toys.