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217. TREVOR REES-JONES Together they’ve raised $1 bil- towns in Ohio, promising better
lion in investment, sold $100 reception. In 1996, he sold his
$3.7 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: & million in upfront ad revenue Continental Cablevision to US
SOURCE: OIL & GAS and attracted filmmakers like West for $11 billion.
AGE: 68 RESIDENCE: DALLAS Sam Raimi and Guillermo del
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: Toro, who have agreed to make 225. JAMES LEPRINO
videos for the new service. In
Hundreds of people attended
ten th grade she was a snack bar $3.6 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: %
the 60th birthday party Rees-
cook at a dude ranch in Wyo- SOURCE: CHEESE
Jones hosted for his wife, Jan,
this summer; Garth Brooks was ming. AGE: 81 RESIDENCE: INDIAN HILLS, CO
the musical guest. Despite a PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
162
downturn in natural gas prices, 225. AUSTEN CARGILL II Leprino started working at his
his Chief Oil & Gas continues to father’s grocery store full-time
frack in the Marcellus shale of $3.6 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: ! after graduating high school in
T SOURCE: CARGILL
S Pennsylvania. 1956. The arrival of larger, chain
I AGE: 68 RESIDENCE: LIVINGSTON, MT
L grocery stores drove them out of
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
E 217. GARY ROLLINS business two years later. Leprino
H noticed how much time his class-
T
225. JONATHAN GRAY $3.7 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: # 225. JAMES CARGILL II mates spent in neighborhood
SOURCE: PEST CONTROL pizzerias and decided to focus
$3.6 BILLION S AGE: 75 RESIDENCE: ATLANTA $3.6 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: ! on mozzarella. He opened his
SELF-MADE SCORE: ^ SOURCE: CARGILL
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: new cheese business with $615.
SOURCE: INVESTMENTS AGE: 70 RESIDENCE: BIRCHWOOD, WI
AGE: 49 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK The vice chairman and CEO of PHILANTHROPY SCORE: Today $3.5 billion (est. sales) Le-
CITY Atlanta pest-control conglomer- prino Foods is the world’s largest
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: ate Rollins Inc., he runs 225. MARIANNE LIEBMANN maker of mozzarella and the ex-
the company alongside his clusive cheese supplier for Domi-
He got his start busing ta- $3.6 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: ! no’s and Pizza Hut.
bles for his mom’s cater- brother and chairman Randall
(No. 225). SOURCE: CARGILL
ing business at age 14—in AGE: 66 RESIDENCE: BOZEMAN, MT
this photo, he mugs for 225. RODGER RINEY
the camera with NBA star 217. FRANK VANDERSLOOT PHILANTHROPY SCORE: $3.6 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: &
Oscar Robertson—then The three siblings each inher- SOURCE: DISCOUNT BROKERAGE
worked at UPenn’s rare- $3.7 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: ) ited an estimated 7% stake in AGE: 73 RESIDENCE: ST. LOUIS
SOURCE: NUTRITION, WELLNESS agribusiness giant Cargill. Aus-
books library and checked
PRODUCTS PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
IDs at a dorm. He landed at ten worked at the company as
AGE: 71 RESIDENCE: IDAHO FALLS, ID Soon after college, Riney turned
Blackstone right out of col- a marine biologist and later
lege in 1992, and made a PHILANTHROPY SCORE: an executive, before retiring in down a job at a top engineer-
name for himself through Before VanderSloot built Me- 2001. ing firm to accept a position for
real estate investments. laleuca, the $2 billion (sales) less pay at an investment com-
Now Blackstone’s chief op- wellness product company, he 225. JAY CHAUDHRY pany instead. He later quit and
erating officer, he still over- was a poor college student who moved to Scottsdale, Arizona,
sees its real estate business, cleaned a laundromat three $3.6 BILLION Ì SELF-MADE SCORE: ( where he cofounded the online
which in June agreed to times a day in exchange for a SOURCE: CYBERSECURITY brokerage company Scottrade
purchase $18.7 billion worth tiny bedroom and $50 a month. AGE: 60 RESIDENCE: SARATOGA, CA in 1980. He sold it to Joe Rick-
of logistics assets from Sin- Earlier still, he did small jobs PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. etts’ (No. 333) TD Ameritrade
gapore’s GLP. for neighbors like building fenc- Chaudhry grew up in a tiny vil- for $4 billion in cash and stock
es. Now his state’s sole billion- lage in the Himalayas in India, in 2017, two years after he was
aire, VanderSloot has taken up where there was no electricity diagnosed with the blood cancer
protecting Idahoans against ag- multiple myeloma. He has since
until he was in eighth grade and
gressive medical debt collectors, donated $40 million to Wash-
217. BOBBY MURPHY creating a $500,000 fund in no running water until he was ington University to research
in tenth grade. His first time
April that will go toward, as he the disease and develop treat-
$3.7 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * on a plane: a one-way flight to
wrote in the East Idaho News, ments for neurodegenerative
SOURCE: SNAP the U.S. to attend the Universi- illnesses.
AGE: 31 RESIDENCE: VENICE, CA “defending people from unscru- ty of Cincinnati in 1980. Before
pulous, unreasonable or unnec-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: founding cybersecurity software
essary attorney fees.” firm ZScaler in 2008, Chaudhry 225. RANDALL ROLLINS
The fortunes of Murphy and
started four other tech com-
his Snap cofounder Evan Spie- $3.6 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: #
gel (No. 225) each rose by more 217. MEG WHITMAN panies that were all acquired. SOURCE: PEST CONTROL
than $1 billion since last year, ZScaler went public in March AGE: 87 RESIDENCE: ATLANTA
$3.7 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ^ 2018, and its shares have since
thanks to the turnaround of
SOURCE: EBAY PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
the social media network. The AGE: 63 RESIDENCE: LOS ANGELES doubled; he owns a 46% stake. In February the O. Wayne Rol-
stock has risen by more than
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: lins Foundation, which was
170% since the beginning of 225. AMOS HOSTETTER JR. named after Randall’s late fa-
2019. Snap, which had been los- Whitman led Silicon Val- ther, announced a $65 million
ing daily active users, gained ley giant eBay, where she $3.6 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: & pledge to support the open-
13 million in the last quarter, made most of her fortune, and SOURCE: CABLE TELEVISION ing of a third building at Emory
for a total of 203 million. Mur- Hewlett Packard. Now, she’s AGE: 82 RESIDENCE: BOSTON
gone Hollywood—to Quibi, a University’s Rollins School of
phy, who serves as chief tech- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: Public Health, to be named after
nology officer, met Spiegel when short-form mobile subscription With $1,500 and an M.B.A. from Randall. He is chairman of Rol-
they were fraternity brothers at service that mogul Jeffrey Kat- Harvard, Hostetter started a lins, Inc., known for its pest-
Stanford. zenberg recruited her to run. cable company in two small
control company Orkin.

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