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93. DANIEL GILBERT 95. MARGARETTA 95. ROBERT PERA dividual stakeholder in Car-
gill, the biggest private com-
$6.5 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: * TAYLOR $6.4 BILLION S SELF MADE SCORE: * pany in the U.S. with sales of
SOURCE: QUICKEN LOANS SOURCE: WIRELESS NETWORKING $113.5 billion, she owns an es-
$6.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: !
AGE: 57 RESIDENCE: FRANKLIN, MI GEAR timated 12% of the agricul-
SOURCE: MEDIA, AUTOMOTIVE AGE: 41 RESIDENCE: SAN JOSE, CA
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: ture company founded by her
AGE: 77 RESIDENCE:
Gilbert, who is recovering from a SOUTHAMPTON, NY PHILANTHROPY SCORE: great-grandfather W.W. Cargill
stroke he had in May, has spent PHILANTHROPY SCORE: Most recent college grads would in 1865. For the first time in
years buying and revitalizing These three siblings inherit- be overjoyed to land a hardware three years, sales and earnings
buildings in Detroit. It’s paying engineering job at Apple. But not at Cargill fell—1% and 17%, re-
ed a combined 50% of Cox En- spectively—in the fiscal year
off—his Jack Entertainment sold the Ubiquiti Networks CEO, who
134 terprises from their mother, through May.
the city’s Greektown Casino-Ho- Anne Cox Chambers, who is wanted success much faster. At 26,
tel this spring for $1 billion. His he launched Ubiquiti, which sells
still alive. Neither Anne nor her
largest asset is mortgage lend- wireless networking systems. The 107. GEORGE LUCAS
T children have ever had an ac-
S er Quicken Loans, which he co- company went public before his
I tive role at the family-owned
L founded when he was 22. Earlier 34th birthday; today it has a mar- $6.2 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
firm. Taylor’s son Alex is presi- SOURCE: STAR WARS
E still, Gilbert opened up a pizzeria ket cap of nearly $8 billion. Pera
H in his mother’s kitchen, though dent and CEO of the $21 billion is the majority owner of the NBA’s AGE: 75 RESIDENCE: SAN ANSELMO, CA
T (sales) automotive and media
the local health department shut company. Memphis Grizzlies, which are on PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
it down within a week. their fifth coach in ten years. Lucas, whose parents ran a
stationery store in Modesto,
95. JAMES CHAMBERS 95. BERNARD MARCUS 100. DANNINE AVARA California, studied film at the
University of Southern Califor-
$6.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: )
$6.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ! $6.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ! nia. After graduating, he won
SOURCE: HOME DEPOT
SOURCE: MEDIA, AUTOMOTIVE SOURCE: PIPELINES a Warner Bros. scholarship, al-
AGE: 90 RESIDENCE: ATLANTA
AGE: 62 RESIDENCE: PALISADES, NY AGE: 55 RESIDENCE: HOUSTON lowing him to become a pro-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: PHILANTHROPY SCORE: duction assistant on Francis
The Home Depot cofounder cel- Ford Coppola’s Finian’s Rain-
95. KATHARINE RAYNER ebrated his 90th birthday in 100. SCOTT DUNCAN bow. Three years later, Coppo-
June at the Georgia Aquarium. la executive-produced Lucas’
$6.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ! Hundreds of people attended $6.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ! first feature film, THX 1138.
SOURCE: MEDIA, AUTOMOTIVE the event, during which guests SOURCE: PIPELINES The Star Wars and Indiana
AGE: 74 RESIDENCE: EAST HAMPTON, NY raised more than $117 million AGE: 36 RESIDENCE: HOUSTON Jones creator has largely re-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: for his favorite nonprofits. PHILANTHROPY SCORE: tired from film. He and his
wife, Mellody Hobson, have
100. RANDA DUNCAN put $1 billion into the Lucas
• B E G I N N I N G S •
WILLIAMS Museum of Narrative Art,
which will open in Los Ange-
$6.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: # les in 2021.
SOURCE: PIPELINES
108. JOHN OVERDECK
AGE: 58 RESIDENCE: HOUSTON
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
$6.1 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
100. MILANE FRANTZ SOURCE: HEDGE FUNDS
AGE: 49 RESIDENCE: MILLBURN, NJ
$6.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ! PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
SOURCE: PIPELINES
108. DAVID SIEGEL
AGE: 50 RESIDENCE: HOUSTON
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
In June, Williams purchased $6.1 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
Texas Monthly magazine from a SOURCE: HEDGE FUNDS
private equity firm for an undis- AGE: 58 RESIDENCE: SCARSDALE, NY
closed amount. She and her three PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
siblings are the biggest share- Siegel and his partner,
holders of Enterprise Products Overdeck, have built one of the
Partners, the oil and gas pipeline nation’s biggest hedge fund
company their father, Dan Dun- firms, Two Sigma Investments,
82. ROBERT KRAFT can (d. 2010), founded in 1968. over 18 years. With $60 billion
She is the only one involved in
under management, Two Sigma
$6.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * the publicly traded company, is a quantitative trading firm
SOURCE: NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS which she chairs. that uses a data-driven process
AGE: 78 RESIDENCE: BROOKLINE, MA to absorb large amounts of
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: 100. PAULINE MACMILLAN information to predict the
Nearly three weeks after his New England Patriots won their sixth KEINATH prices of securities. The firm has RICK FRIEDMAN-SPORTS ILLUSTRATED- GETTY IMAGES
Super Bowl in February, Kraft was charged with two counts of solicit- branched out to private
equity and venture capital, pri-
ing prostitution in Jupiter, Florida. He pleaded not guilty; the case is $6.3 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: ! marily investing Overdeck’s and
ongoing. Kraft, who sold newspapers outside the old Braves Stadium SOURCE: CARGILL
in Boston as a kid, made a fortune in paper and packaging before he AGE: 85 RESIDENCE: ST. LOUIS Siegel’s money. Before
Two Sigma, Siegel launched
bought the Patriots for $172 million in 1994. The NFL team is PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. Blink.com, a bookmarking
now worth $4.1 billion. He committed $20 million this year to estab- Believed to be the largest in- website, in 1999.
lish a foundation to fight anti-Semitism and hate crimes.

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