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225. MARC ROWAN                  225. LYNSI SNYDER                users surpassed 200 million and   battle spearheaded by activist
                                                                                the company hit $388 million in   investor Daniel Loeb’s (No. 306)
              $3.6 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *  $3.6 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: #   revenue for the quarter through   hedge fund Third Point in Sep-
              SOURCE: PRIVATE EQUITY           SOURCE: IN-N-OUT BURGER          June, up 48% from the prior year.   tember 2018. What started as
              AGE: 57 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY  AGE: 37 RESIDENCE: GLENDORA, CA  In December CEO Spiegel donated   a campaign to replace the en-
              PHILANTHROPY SCORE:              PHILANTHROPY SCORE:              $33 million worth of stock to the   tire board ended in a settlement
                                                                                Snap Foundation, a nonprofit sup-  agreement to add three new
              Rowan made news last October     At 17, Snyder started working
                                                                                porting Los Angeles youth; it is   board members and give Loeb a
              when his alma mater UPenn’s      at her family’s In-N-Out Burg-
                                                                                still in the exploratory stages and   say in selecting the next CEO.
              Wharton School announced his     er, separating lettuce leaves and
              $50 million gift. The donation—  operating the register at a loca-  has not made any grants. In high
              Wharton’s largest single gift—   tion in Redding, California. Not   school, Spiegel promoted Red Bull   239. MICHAEL MORITZ
      166                                                                       as an intern.
              will go to the economic policy   long after, her father died and
              analysis program. Apollo Global,   she became the chain’s sole heir-                               $3.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
              which he cofounded, manages      ess. Over the next decade she re-  239. CHARLES COHEN             SOURCE: VENTURE CAPITAL
       T                                                                                                         AGE: 65 RESIDENCE: SAN FRANCISCO
       S      over $300 billion in assets and   ceived stakes in the company as
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       L      is acquiring custom photo ser-   part of a complex trust created by   $3.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: %  PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
                                                                                SOURCE: REAL ESTATE
       E      vice firms Shutterfly and Snap-    her grandparents. She got the last                                Moritz, a longtime venture cap-
       H      fish and plans to combine them    piece when she turned 35 in 2017   AGE: 67  RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY  italist at Sequoia, has made re-
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              into one group.                  and today owns about 97%. As     PHILANTHROPY SCORE:              cent headlines for his work in
                                               company president, she has over-  While the bulk of his fortune—  philanthropy. The former jour-
              225. JOHN SALL                   seen careful expansion to Texas   high-end office buildings in New   nalist and Steve Jobs biogra-
                                               and Oregon followed by Colora-   York City and design centers in   pher took over support of the
              $3.6 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: *   do next year.                 several cities—remains steady,   prestigious Booker Prize liter-
              SOURCE: SOFTWARE                                                  Cohen continues to make eclec-   ary award in June as part of a
              AGE: 71 RESIDENCE: CARY, NC      225. EVAN SPIEGEL                tic investments. In late 2018 he   five-year sponsorship through
              PHILANTHROPY SCORE:                                               bought movie theater chain Land-  his Crankstart foundation. In
              Sall cofounded statistical software   $3.6 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *  mark Theatres from Mark Cuban   August he wrote an op-ed in
              firm SAS with James Goodnight     SOURCE: SNAP                     (No. 179) and picked up Manhat-  the Financial Times in support
                                               AGE: 29 RESIDENCE: LOS ANGELES   tan society magazine Avenue. He   of direct listings as an alterna-
              (No. 77), in 1976. The graduate stu-
              dent met the then professor at   PHILANTHROPY SCORE:              already owns film producer Mer-   tive to traditional IPOs, compar-
                                                                                chant Ivory, luggage company T.   ing investment banks to tick-
              North Carolina State University.   After a rocky period, Snap is on
                                               an upswing; the number of daily   Anthony and designer men’s foot-  et scalpers.
                                                                                wear firm Harrys of London.
                                                                                                                 239. GABE NEWELL
                                   •   B E G I N N I N G S   •                  239. TRAVIS KALANICK
                                                                                                                 $3.5 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: *
                                                                                $3.5 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: *  SOURCE: VIDEO GAMES
                                                                                SOURCE: UBER                     AGE: 56 RESIDENCE: SEATTLE
                                                                                AGE: 43 RESIDENCE: LOS ANGELES   PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A.
                                                                                PHILANTHROPY SCORE:              For years, Newell and his com-
                                                                                The former Uber CEO watched      pany Valve Corp. have domi-
                                                                                from the sidelines as the company   nated online sales of PC games
                                                                                went public in May. Kalanick’s net   through Steam, its digital video
                                                                                worth is down $2.4 billion since   game distribution platform. Fac-
                                                                                last year, partly because he put   ing fresh competition, especial-
                                                                                about $1 billion of his Uber shares   ly from Fortnite creator Epic
                                                                                into a charitable remainder trust   Games, Valve has been forced to
                                                                                and in part because of Uber’s    cut its take on games sold via its
                                                                                poor stock performance. He       platform. Newell dropped out
                                                                                remains on Uber’s board and is   of Harvard to become an early
                                                                                also CEO of City Storage Systems,   Microsoft employee, before co-
                                                                                which is working to create virtual   founding Valve in 1996.
                                                                                restaurants. In August he
                                                                                reportedly purchased a $36.5     239. JAY PAUL
                                                                                million penthouse in New York
                                                                                City.                            $3.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
                                                                                                                 SOURCE: REAL ESTATE
                225. STEVEN SPIELBERG                                           239. MARY ALICE                  AGE: 72 RESIDENCE: SAN FRANCISCO
                                                                                                                 PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A.
                $3.6 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: *                               DORRANCE MALONE                  The Silicon Valley office devel-
                SOURCE: MOVIES                                                                                   oper is on a mission to remake
                                                                                $3.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: @
                AGE: 72 RESIDENCE: PACIFIC PALISADES, CA                                                         San Jose’s skyline, buying up
                                                                                SOURCE: CAMPBELL SOUP
                PHILANTHROPY SCORE:                                                                              nearly $400 million worth of
                                                                                AGE: 69 RESIDENCE: COATESVILLE, PA
                The three-time Academy Award winner got his first job far away                                    properties in the past year; he
                                                                                PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
                from the movie lots of Hollywood. At 13, he painted the trunks of cit-                           plans to put up new towers and
                                                                                The granddaughter of the in-
                rus trees in his native Scottsdale, Arizona, to keep them cool in the                            a sprawling tech campus. His
                desert sun. He put that money into buying 8mm film and processing   ventor of Campbell’s condensed   real estate company also owns    UNIVERSAL-GETTY IMAGES
                equipment. Fast-forward about 60 years, and his films have grossed   soup formula, Malone and her   property in San Francisco, San
                more than $10 billion worldwide. (Above, he’s on the set of Jaws in   brother Bennett Dorrance (No.   Diego and Santa Cruz and a
                                                                                306) remain on the board of
                1975.) He’s still making movies; his next turn in the director’s chair                           vineyard on a 1,134-acre ranch
                will be to remake West Side Story.                              Campbell Soup after a proxy      in the Santa Ynez Valley.

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