$2 Billion | Rank #1729 Who is Dieter Schnabel By its own account, Helm began in 1900 as a Hamburg-based import-export business “for merchandise of every description.” Dieter’s father, Hermann, took over from the namesake founder, Karl O. Helm, in 1950 and set a path focused on chemicals. After …
$12 Billion | Rank #167 Who is Brian Chesky Airbnb went public in a blockbuster IPO on December 10, 2020, with the share price more than doubling to upwards of $144. A former bodybuilder, Chesky attended Rhode Island School of Design where he met Gebbia. Chesky is the son …
$4 Billion | Rank #637 Who is Robert Rowling The Omni chain has 60 locations and 21,000 rooms nationwide with big new hotels in Dallas, Atlanta and Boston. Rowling still owns Gold’s Gym, with 700 locations worldwide. He had it up for sale in 2018. He gave $25 million …
$1 Billion | Rank #2076 Who is Fredrik Österberg Evolutions sells casino solutions to online gambling operators, primarily live-streamed tables of blackjack, poker, craps and roulette. Evolution’s first casino studio was set up in Riga, Lituania, in 2006. Today the company has live-casino studios in nine countries, including the …
$4 Billion | Rank #822 Who is Iskander Makhmudov Makhmudov is also a shareholder in Transmashholding, Russia’s largest maker of locomotives and rail equipment. Born in Bukhara, Uzbekistan, he lived in Tashkent and graduated from a local university with a degree in oriental studies. Billionaire Andrei Bokarev is a …
$6 Billion | Rank #438 Who is Charles Simonyi The developer has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford, and worked on one of the first personal computers at Xerox. He joined Microsoft, then a fledgling firm, as employee No. 40 in 1981, and spent two decades in application …
$2 Billion | Rank #1292 Who is Hans Langer Langer founded EOS, one of the earliest and most successful 3-D printing companies, more than 30 years ago. Daughter Marie Langer took over as CEO of the largest operating business, EOS GmbH, which makes 3D printers for polymers and metals, …
$3 Billion | Rank #1012 Who is Zhang Lei Zhang holds and MBA and M.A. in international relations from Yale University. Zhang holds a B.A. from Renmin University in Beijing, where he is vice chairman of the board of trustees. Coming from an average or middle class family, Zhang …
$1 Billion | Rank #2190 Who is Angela Bennett The royalty was negotiated by her father, Peter Wright, and his partner, Lang Hancock, father of fellow Western Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart. Bennett holds a major stake in Wright Prospecting, which is in litigation with Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting over various …
