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47. JAN KOUM After working for several years at 51. JIM KENNEDY derful Company, the biggest pro-
Yahoo, he started mobile messag- ducer of almonds and pistachios
$10.1 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ) ing app Whats App in 2009 with $9.6 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: $ and the owner of Halos manda-
SOURCE: WHATSAPP Brian Acton (No. 342). Facebook SOURCE: MEDIA, AUTOMOTIVE rin oranges.
AGE: 43 RESIDENCE: ATHERTON, CA acquired it in 2014 for $22 billion AGE: 71 RESIDENCE: ATLANTA
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: in cash and stock. Flush with cash PHILANTHROPY SCORE: 56. JERRY JONES
and free time after resigning as
Koum and his mother came to
CEO of WhatsApp last year, Koum 51. BLAIR PARRY-OKEDEN $8.6 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
the U.S. from Ukraine when he
reportedly purchased a $100 mil- SOURCE: DALLAS COWBOYS
was 16, fleeing anti-Semitism.
His mother became a babysit- lion home in Malibu in August. $9.6 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ! AGE: 77 RESIDENCE: DALLAS
SOURCE: MEDIA, AUTOMOTIVE
ter; Koum swept floors at a gro- His Instagram suggests that he is PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
128 an avid collector of rare Porsches. AGE: 69 RESIDENCE: NEW SOUTH
cery store to help pay the bills. WALES, AUSTRALIA The Dallas Cowboys owner con-
tinues to bet big on oil and gas.
48. ANDREW BEAL PHILANTHROPY SCORE: In July, Jones invested $475 mil-
T • B E G I N N I N G S • Brother and sister share a 50%
S lion in publicly traded energy
I stake in Cox Enterprises, the $21
L $9.8 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: * company Comstock Resources
SOURCE: BANKS, REAL ESTATE billion (revenues) media and auto-
E in exchange for 50 million new
H AGE: 66 RESIDENCE: DALLAS motive conglomerate founded by shares and $175 million worth
T
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: their grandfather in 1898. Kenne- of convertible preferred stock.
Beal started out flipping rent- dy began his career at Cox in 1972 But his most prized asset is still
al properties at age 19 while as a production assistant in the his NFL team. At $5.5 billion the
newspaper division. After working
studying business adminis- Cowboys are the world’s most
for the company in various roles
tration at Michigan State. He valuable sports team. Its 91-acre
dropped out, started two prof- he was named chairman and CEO headquarters, The Star, con-
itable banks that bear his name in 1988. He stepped down as CEO tinues to draw new tenants; in
in 2008 but continues as chair-
and prospered during the Great February beverage firm Keurig
man. Parry-Okeden has no role at
Recession, cutting back loans Dr Pepper announced plans to
while the credit bubble expand- Cox and lives in Australia. move its Texas headquarters to
ed and cashing in when it burst. the site. Jones has come a long
In 1993 he developed a com- 53. HANK & DOUG MEIJER way from his days working at his
plex mathematical problem, the parent’s grocery store, Pat’s Su-
“Beal Conjecture,” that no one $9.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: # permarket, where he started as a
has solved, despite a cash prize SOURCE: SUPERMARKETS customer greeter at age 9.
AGES: 67,65 RESIDENCE: GRAND
that’s now $1 million.
RAPIDS, MI
56. GEORGE SOROS
49. CARL COOK PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
46. GORDON MOORE $9.7 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: # The brothers own Meijer, a Mich- $8.6 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: )
igan-based grocery chain with
SOURCE: HEDGE FUNDS
SOURCE: MEDICAL DEVICES stores throughout the Midwest AGE: 89 RESIDENCE: KATONAH, NY
$10.3 BILLION S
SELF-MADE SCORE: * AGE: 57 RESIDENCE: BLOOMING- and estimated sales of $17.8 bil- PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
TON, IN
SOURCE: INTEL lion. The company was started in A survivor of Nazi-occupied
AGE: 90 RESIDENCE: WOODSIDE PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. 1934 by their grandfather and fa- Hungary, Soros left for London
CA ther. In September Meijer joined
Cook is the CEO of Cook Group, where he studied and worked
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: a medical device manufactur- retailers like Kroger and CVS in part-time as a railway por-
One of Silicon Valley’s most ing company with $2.4 billion asking customers not to bring ter before moving to the U.S.
pivotal business leaders, he (sales) that his parents founded firearms into stores. He became famous for betting
once said his career as an out of an apartment in Bloom- against the British pound in
entrepreneur was “by acci- ington, Indiana, in 1963. He took 54. STEWART 1992. Now the hedge fund man-
dent.” Moore was pursuing over after his father, Bill, passed & LYNDA RESNICK ager is known for his liberal
a career as a scientist when away in 2011. political leanings and outspo-
the poor management skills $9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * ken criticism of leaders such as
of his Nobel Prize-winning 49. STANLEY KROENKE SOURCE: AGRICULTURE, WATER President Trump and Chinese
boss at Shockley Semicon- AGE: 82,76 RESIDENCE: BEVERLY President Xi Jinping.
ductor Laboratory inspired $9.7 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ^ HILLS, CA
him and seven others ( “the SOURCE: SPORTS, REAL ESTATE PHILANTHROPY SCORE: 58. CHRISTY WALTON
traitorous eight”) to leave AGE: 72 RESIDENCE: ELECTRA, TX
At age 4 Lynda started perform-
and start Fairchild Semicon- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: ing on a live weekly television $8.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: !
ductor in 1957. He worked In August the real estate mogul show in Philadelphia. Stewart, SOURCE: WALMART
at Fairchild for 11 years, became sole owner of Arse- AGE: 70 RESIDENCE: JACKSON, WY
after which he and Robert nal football club after buying at age 13, worked as a stockroom PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
boy at a drugstore in New Jer-
Noyce split off to start semi- out Russian tycoon Alisher Us- sey and saved enough money to When her husband, John, son of
conductor firm Intel, which manov’s minority stake, report- buy a camera and take pictures Walmart founder Sam Walton,
he ran for years. His foun- edly paying $58 million and died in a plane crash in 2005,
dation has donated millions borrowing $719 million from of neighborhood homes, selling she inherited a stake in the re-
the images to the homeowners.
to the Thirty Meter Tele- Deutsche Bank. Construction The two met when Stewart in- tailer, but most of her late hus-
scope in Hawaii; construc- on a new stadium for his Los terviewed her ad agency Lynda band’s shares went to their only
tion began in July. Activists Angeles Rams is ongoing; it Limited, which she started after child, Lukas (No. 28). In 2010 WAYNE MILLER-MAGNUM PHOTOS
say the telescope disrespects is projected to cost more than dropping out of college, to work she established Cuna del Mar,
a sacred site; proponents $5 billion. He is married to on a campaign for his janitori- an investment fund focused on
argue it will help scientists Walmart heir Ann Walton creating a sustainable supply of
learn about the universe. Kroenke (No. 67). al services company. Together seafood.
ever since, they own The Won-

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