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- Here are the 44 new members of The Forbes 400 (net worths are as of September 3, 2021)
- Miriam Adelson. Net Worth: $30.4 billion. Source of wealth: Casinos. Adelson inherited her late husband’s 57% stake in Las Vegas Sands, the publicly traded gambling empire with casinos in Singapore and Macau, after his death in January.
- Sam Bankman-Fried. Net Worth: $22.5 billion. Source of wealth: Cryptocurrency. The 29-year-old MIT grad owes most of his $22.5 billion fortune to his stake in the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX—which he cofounded in 2019—and his share of its FTT tokens.
- Jeff Yass. Net Worth: $12 billion. Source of wealth: Trading, investments. The former pro gambler joins The Forbes 400 thanks to his stake in trading firm Susquehanna International Group, which he cofounded in 1987 and built into one of the most successful firms on Wall Street.
Oct 5, 2021 · Nearly all are richer than they were a year ago. The top 20 on the list are together worth a stunning $1.8 trillion. Forbes calculated net worths for the list using stock prices from September...
- Jimmy Donaldson
- Charli D'Amelio
- Alexandra Cooper
- Elliot Tebele
- Emma Chamberlain
- Huda Kattan
- Rhett Mclaughlin & Link Neal
- Khaby Lame
- Addison Rae Easterling
- Jake Paul
Entrepreneurship Score: 3
Stunts like spending 50 hours buried alive and attempting starvation for 30 days are well worth it when they net $54 million a year. The predictably high viewership of antics like these explains why Jimmy Donaldson AKA MrBeast has made most of his money from ads on his YouTube videos. MrBeast earned the No. 1 spot on this list not only because he’s making more than anyone else, but also because his restaurant concept, MrBeast Burger, is a truly entrepreneurial mechanism for the YouTuber to mo...
Entrepreneurship Score: 3
In 2021, 18-year-old Charli D'Amelio was the highest-earning TikToker, making $17.5 million from her casual clothing brand Social Tourist (a joint venture with Hollister and sister Dixie), Hulu show the D’Amelio Show and deals with brands like Invisalign, Morphe and Dunkin'. While she still posts videos of dances, D’Amelio also devotes much of her content to pushing her own brands and partnerships. A huge part of this is D'Amelio Brands, her family's consumer product company, which nabbed a $...
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Talking about sex—her own, as well as that of friends and celebrities—has made former college soccer player Alexandra Cooper into a multimillionaire. Cooper started her fornication-focused podcast, “Call Her Daddy,” with her former roommate Sofia Franklyn. After the two gained popularity, they signed a deal to produce the podcast under Barstool Sports. After parting ways with Franklyn in 2020, Cooper signed a reported $60 million deal to bring the podcast to Spotify. Cooper’s turned raunch to...
Entrepreneurship Score: 3
Remember when the most entertaining internet content was photos with funny captions—otherwise known as memes? Well, that time is long gone, but original mass-market meme maker FuckJerry, helmed by Elliot Tebele, has diversified into games, tequila and television to stay relevant. It’s working. The company’s card game, What Do You Meme, has become somewhat of a family recreation staple–it’s currently Amazon’s 17th most popular board game. The company’s JAJA tequila, marketed as a memefied Casa...
Entrepreneurship Score: 3
Of all the creators on this list, Emma Chamberlain has one of the highest engagement rates, with nearly 12% of her Instagram audience engaging with her content (that’s extremely high for someone with 15 million Instagram followers). Chamberlain, who dropped out of high school before even tasting fame, is known for her wit and deadpan humor, which have helped make her a popular vlogger. She’s also the founder of Chamberlain Coffee, a premium coffee and tea brand that happens to sell a ton of m...
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Growing up in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to Iraqi-born parents in a mostly white Baptist neighborhood, Huda Kattan was frequently bullied for her ethnicity. At 12, she started wearing heavy makeup as a comfort. “I always felt like a misfit,” Kattan told Forbes in 2018. “Even now, I still struggle with this a little bit. And I think that’s what probably motivates me so much.” She’s one of the earliest creators on this list as she started her beauty blog in 2010. That led the then-financier to st...
Entrepreneurship Score: 3
McLaughlin and Link met in 1984 during first-grade detention after writing profanities on their desks and later performed comedic sketches in grade school. Now, the North Carolina State University grads deliver sketch comedy to some 5 million YouTube fans. The two made Forbes’ 2022 Highest-Paid YouTube Stars list earning $30 million in merchandise, festival and solo show appearances, music sales and endorsements. They’ve also started their own $5 million accelerator fund to jump-start the car...
Entrepreneurship Score: 3
With more than 146 million TikTok followers, Khaby Lame is now the most-followed TikToker in the world (he surpassed Charli D’Amelio in June). The 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe honoree creates comedy skits that mock overly complicated “life hacks”—all without saying a word. Prior to establishing himself online, Lame lost his job as a factory worker in Italy at the onset of the pandemic. Now, at age 22, the Sengalese-born creator is becoming the face of Web3, signing a deal with cryptocurrenc...
Entrepreneurship Score: 3
Growing up in a trailer in Lafayette, Louisiana, Addison Rae Easterling never expected to obtain 88 million TikTok followers and make over $27 million. But trained as a competitive dancer, Easterling’s ability to bring a song to life with her own versions of popping, locking and dropping, has made her an entertaining follow for people around the world. While other TikTokers have cross-platform chops, Easterling is a grande dame. She got partnerships with Pandora, Vital Proteins, American Eagl...
Entrepreneurship Score: 2
Jake Paul has made millions switching from prankster to pugilist. Paul—who got his start with controversial YouTube spectacles like eating IcyHot and throwing water balloons at women—now makes most of his money as a boxer. The trash-talking Paul uses his social reach to build hype and drama, around his boxing and MMA matches, which he streams to his 20.4 million subscribers—converting eyeballs into massive merchandise and advertising dollars. Read More
- Alexandra Sternlicht
Oct 5, 2021 · The aggregate wealth of The Forbes 400 reached a record-breaking $4.5 trillion, and the minimum net worth needed to make the cut for this year’s list rose to a record high of $2.9 billion, up...
Mar 9, 2021 · Over $890 billion has been amassed by the ten wealthiest people since March 2020. To put that into perspective, that’s more than the entire economic output of Sweden, Turkey, or Saudi Arabia. As just one example, Elon Musk witnessed his wealth increase at least 1,116% in the last year and a half.
- Dorothy Neufeld
Oct 5, 2021 · Minimum Fortune To Make the Cut Reaches A Record-Breaking $2.9 Billion And The Collective Net Worth Of The 2021 List Makers Surges To A Historic $4.5 Trillion. Forbes today released its 40th annual Forbes 400 list, the definitive ranking of the wealthiest people in America.
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Dec 30, 2021 · The Google co-founder added $47 billion to his fortune thanks to the strong performance of Alphabet in 2021, which surpassed the $2 trillion market cap in November and was recently crowned Big...
