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The wealth-tracking platform provides ongoing updates on the net worth and ranking of each individual confirmed by Forbes to be a billionaire. The value of individuals’ public holdings are ...
1 day ago · Bloomberg Billionaires Index. View profiles for each of the world’s 500 richest people, see the biggest movers, and compare fortunes or track returns. As of October 30, 2024. The Bloomberg...
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Kochand her three children inherited a 42% stake in Koch Industries from her husband, David, who died in August at age 79. An Iowa native who graduated from the University of Central Arkansas, she moved to New York in the 1980s and worked as an assistant to designer Adolfo. In 1991, friends set up Julia and David on a blind date, which did not go w...
As part of her divorce settlement with Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Bezosreceived a quarter of Jeff’s stake in Amazon—which made her not only the third-richest woman in America but also the fourth-richest woman on the planet. Bezos has signed the Giving Pledge, promising to donate more than half of her wealth to charitable causes. That could move her down...
Sweeney founded video game company Epic Games in 1991 in his parents’ house and released the game ZZT at age 21. Today over 250 million people, mostly boys ages 10 to 25, have played his game Fortnitesince it launched in July 2017. The company held the finals for its inaugural Fortnite World Cup in July at New York City’s Arthur Ashe Stadium, where...
Perot’s late husband, tech pioneer and presidential candidate H. Ross Perot, died in July at age 89 after battling leukemia. She met him on a blind date while he was a student at the U.S. Naval Academy. She gave her husband a $1,000 check to start Electronic Data Systems, which he sold to General Motors in 1984 for $2.5 billion.
Blue is chairman and CEO of $2.7 billion defense company General Atomics. Its 2018 revenues were $2.7 billion, according to a U.S. government database. The company is best known as the manufacturer of the Predator drone, one of the first drones to fly over Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks. He and his brother Linden bought General Atomics when it ...
McNairowns the Houston Texans, which her late husband, Bob McNair (who died in November 2018), founded in 1999 after paying $600 million for the NFL franchise. Bob McNair initially built a fortune through Cogen Technologies, a power generation company he founded in the early ’80s and sold to Enron for $1.5 billion in 1999.
Woodis the founder and CEO of Roku, a tech company that enables users to stream internet shows from Netflix and others on their TVs. A serial entrepreneur, he also founded digital video recorder firm Replay-TV in 1997 and sold it in 2001. A year later, he launched Roku, which now has more than 27 million customers who streamed about 24 billion hour...
Before founding cybersecurity software firm ZScaler in 2008, Chaudhry started four other tech companies that were all acquired. ZScaler, in which Chaudhry has a 46% stake, went public in March 2018, and its shares have since doubled. Raised in India, the first time Chaudhry was on an airplane was a one-way flight to the U.S. to attend the Universit...
For six decades, Florida optometrist Wertheimhas invested the profits from his company Brain Power, which manufactures eyeglass tints, in the stock market. He is the largest individual shareholder in aerospace firm Heico.
Bravo got his start on Wall Street in 1998. Now his buyout firm Thoma Bravo is one of the most successful and fastest-growing private equity managers in the world, with $39 billion in assets under management. Operating out of San Francisco, he has perfected the software buyout.
The members of this year’s Forbes 400 list, released today, are worth 8% more on average compared to a year ago. A select group of these billionaires have been even more fortunate: The 15 ...
Oct 15, 2023 · Labrinth (Euphoria, Malcolm & Marie) has collaborated with Alex Baranowski (True Things, The Windmere Children, Rain Dogs) on the score for the upcoming British Netflix original film The Kitchen.
Alex Baranowski is a multi award-winning and nominated composer and graduate of Paul McCartney’s LIPA based in London. Scores for film include the twice BAFTA nominated feature McCullin (Curzon), Nureyev (Universal Film), A Christmas Carol (2020) starring Carrey Mulligan and Andy Serkis, Warner Bros’ The Windermere Children (2020) and ...
Jan 30, 2023 · Alex Baranowski (True Things, The Windmere Children, A Christmas Carol, Burial, A Perfect Enemy, Staged) has recently scored the upcoming HBO/BBC original series Rain Dogs. The show is written and created by Cash Carraway and stars Daisy May Cooper, Jack Farthing, Adrian Edmondson, Ronke Adekoluejo and Fleur Tashjian.
