$2 Billion | Rank #1341 Who is Serge Godin One of nine children, Godin started working for his father (who had just a fifth-grade education) at the family’s sawmill at age 12. He studied computer science and got an MBA from Quebec’s Université Laval, then worked in consulting before …
$1 Billion | Rank #2324 Who is Tim Draper Draper has made hundreds of VC investments in companies including Tesla and Theranos, and has made a fortune investing in cryptocurrencies. In 2014, he bought 29,656 bitcoins confiscated by U.S. Marshals from the shuttered Silk Road black market for $18.7 …
$3 Billion | Rank #1096 Who is Ted Alfond Ted’s father, Harold Alfond, bought an old mill in Maine in 1958 and turned it into a shoemaker that sold millions of boots and casual shoes a year. In 1993 Harold sold the company to Buffett for about $420 million …
$2 Billion | Rank #1818 Who is Herbert Allen, Jr. & family Allen & Co. has had a hand in several large tech IPOs of the last decade, including Twitter, Groupon and LinkedIn. The firm was founded as an investment partnership in 1922 by Allen’s uncle Charles. Allen was …
$6 Billion | Rank #471 Who is Teddy Sagi Sagi sold a 12% slice of Playtech for almost $400 million in 2016; he sold the rest for $88 million in November 2018. He has taken 4 companies public on London’s AIM: Playtech, Market Tech, online payments processor SafeCharge and …
$1 Billion | Rank #2448 Who is Jeffrey Michael & family He and family members hold a 38% stake in Corvel through Michael’s investment vehicle, Corstar Holdings, Inc. Michael helped start Corvel in 1987; originally named Fortis, it began as a small chain of vocational rehabilitation firms The company …
$2 Billion | Rank #1579 Who is Changtian Wang Wang’s Beijing Enlight Media is 8.8% held by Alibaba Group, which is led by fellow billionaire Jack Ma. Coming from an average or middle class family, Changtian Wang is one those great persons who have stormed their way to the …
$2 Billion | Rank #1397 Who is Lin Lairong & family The company went public at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2021 Coming from an average or middle class family, Lin Lairong & family is one those great persons who have stormed their way to the billionaires list on …
$2 Billion | Rank #1929 Who is Jin Xin Coming from an average or middle class family, Jin Xin is one those great persons who have stormed their way to the billionaires list on their own. And currently ranks at 1929 on billionaires list making him one of the …
