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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 · 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...
The wealth-tracking platform provides ongoing updates on the net worth and ranking of each individual confirmed by Forbes to be a billionaire.
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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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The Sunday Times Rich List 2020 is the 32nd annual survey of the wealthiest people resident in the United Kingdom, published by The Sunday Times on 17 May 2020. [1] The list was edited by Robert Watts who succeeded long-term compiler Philip Beresford in 2017.
Apr 7, 2020 · In raw terms, the world’s billionaires are worth $8 trillion, down $700 billion from 2019,” Forbes said. Microsoft (MSFT) cofounder Bill Gates is in second place with a $98 billion fortune,...
