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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.
May 17, 2017 · These 60 women, who have a record combined net worth of $61.5 billion, have created their own fortunes, deploying invention and innovation and achieving unparalleled success.
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Tesla stock rose more than five-fold since last year’s list, making Musk the biggest gainer in percentage terms. His meteoric rise, helped along by two massive grants of Tesla shares as part of his CEO compensation, continued after Forbesfinalized net worths for this year’s list in late July. He broke the $100 billion mark in late August, less than...
Nvidia shares are up some 25,000% since Huang took the chipmaker public in 1999, including a 128% jump since last year’s list. Huang, who’s been chief executive since cofounding Nvidia in 1993, owns about 3.6% of its stock.
Before founding cybersecurity firm ZScaler, whose shares have risen 90% since last year, Chaudhry launched four other tech companies that were all acquired. He and his wife, Jyoti, both quit their jobs and used their life savings to start the first of these firms, cybersecurity startup SecureIT.
Garcia III was an executive at his father’s used car dealer and financer DriveTime Automotive Group before cofounding online used car seller Carvana in 2012. Billed as the “Amazon of cars,” Carvana’s stock is up 77% since last year’s list.
His DriveTime operates 127 dealerships across the U.S. and has financed more than 4 million car buyers. The elder Garcia helped fund Carvana, which operated as part of DriveTime before the Garcias spun it out and took it public in 2017.
Shares of Veeva Systems, the cloud software provider for pharmaceutical and biotech companies that he founded and runs as CEO, are up 60% since last year.
The founder and CEO of wireless equipment maker Ubiquiti Networks, Pera’s fortune is up thanks to a 58% rise in Ubiquiti’s stock since last year. He owns about three-quarters of the publicly traded company.
The Twitter cofounder and CEO is richer this year thanks to a 96% bump in the share price of his other company, payments processor Square. That increase more than covers Dorsey’s pledge to give $1 billion of his Square stock to #startsmall, a new philanthropic entity he says will focus on Covid-19 relief, women’s health and education and lobbying f...
In July, along with her announcement of nearly $1.7 billion in donations to 116 nonprofits, Jeff Bezos’ publicity-shy ex wife said she changed her last name from Bezos to her middle name, Scott. Her fortune is still largely tied up in soaring Amazon stock.
America’s richest person had a great year, despite some bad headlines — including coronavirus-related protests by Amazon workers and a big-tech antitrust investigation by Congress. With the quarantining world turning to online shopping, Amazon shares climbed by 64% over the past year.
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- Alice Walton. - Net worth: $64.0 billion (#15 wealthiest person in the world) - Source of wealth: Walmart. - Born: 1949. The only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton, Alice Walton inherited a huge portion of the company upon her father's death in 1992.
- MacKenzie Scott. - Net worth: $53.0 billion (#22 wealthiest person in the world) - Source of wealth: Amazon. - Born: 1970. The ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott announced the couple's split on Twitter in 2019.
- Julia Koch & family. - Net worth: $46.4 billion (#26 wealthiest person in the world) - Source of wealth: Koch Industries. - Born: 1962. Julia Koch inherited a 42 percent stake in Koch Industries when her husband David died in 2019.
- Jacqueline Mars. - Net worth: $31.3 billion (#45 wealthiest person in the world) - Source of wealth: candy, pet food. - Born: 1939. Jacqueline Mars is the great-aunt of the four Mars sisters highlighted earlier in this list.
Oct 5, 2021 · Here are the 10 richest women on the 2021 Forbes 400 list of richest Americans. Net worths are as of September 3, 2021.
Oct 17, 2017 · The group’s total net worth climbed to $2.7 trillion, up from $2.4 trillion, and the average net worth rose to $6.7 billion, up from $6 billion. Even at these new heights, entrepreneurs are...
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Apr 5, 2022 · War, pandemic and sluggish markets hit the world’s billionaires this year. There are 2,668 of them on Forbes’ 36th-annual ranking of the planet’s richest people—87 fewer than a year ago ...
