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239. ANTHONY PRITZKER too. “They call it socialism, but 250. ALLAN GOLDMAN pensive gubernatorial races in U.S.
it is more accurately described history. He took office as governor
$3.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: # as left-wing statism lubricated $3.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: $ in January.
SOURCE: HOTELS, INVESTMENTS by showers of free stuff,” Sing- SOURCE: REAL ESTATE
AGE: 58 RESIDENCE: LOS ANGELES er said at a dinner honoring AGE: 76 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY 250. BERNARD SAUL II
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: Betsy DeVos in May, according PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
to CNBC. $3.4 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: %
He and brother J.B. (No. 250),
who is now governor of Illinois, 250. JANE GOLDMAN SOURCE: BANKING, REAL ESTATE
cofounded Pritzker Group, 239. DAVID STEWARD AGE: 87 RESIDENCE: CHEVY CHASE,
MD
which invests in venture capital $3.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: $
SOURCE: REAL ESTATE
and private equity. In August, $3.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ) PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
168 SOURCE: IT PROVIDER AGE: 64 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY
he and his wife, Jeanne, donat- Saul inherited his grandfather’s
AGE: 68 RESIDENCE: ST. LOUIS PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
ed $1 million to UCLA’s Congo real estate firm B.F. Saul and Co.,
Basin Institute, which supports PHILANTHROPY SCORE: which owns Washington, D.C.’s
T 250. AMY GOLDMAN
S students conducting research The chairman and cofounder of iconic Hay-Adams Hotel. He also
I
L on public health and climate IT provider World Wide Tech- FOWLER founded Saul Centers, a publicly

E change in Africa. nology grew up in a house that traded REIT.
H at times lacked indoor plumb- $3.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: @
T SOURCE: REAL ESTATE
239. PAUL SINGER ing in Missouri, where he and 250. LYNN
seven siblings were some of AGE: 65 RESIDENCE: RHINEBECK, NY
$3.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * the first black children to inte- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: SCHUSTERMAN
SOURCE: HEDGE FUNDS grate into its schools. He started
AGE: 75 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY as a substitute teacher and Boy 250. DIANE KEMPER $3.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: !
SOURCE: OIL & GAS, INVESTMENTS
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: Scouts of America employee be- AGE: 80 RESIDENCE: TULSA
fore landing his first sales gig at $3.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: @
He’s known for aggressive deal- SOURCE: REAL ESTATE PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
Missouri Pacific Railroad (a job
making, like the 15-year bat- AGE: 74 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY
he landed after sending out 400 Her late husband, Charles, found-
tle with Argentina’s government PHILANTHROPY SCORE: ed energy company Samson Re-
over bond payments. Ahead résumés in three years). Now The late Sol Goldman (d. 1987), sources in 1971 and ran it until his
of the 2020 election, he’s turn- he is the second-richest African
American. once New York City’s biggest land- death from leukemia in 2000. She
ing up the political rhetoric,
lord, got his start running his sold the company in 2011 for $7.2
dad’s grocery store after dropping billion and has funneled much
• B E G I N N I N G S • out of college. His four children of that money to her foundation,
inherited the fortune. His Solil which supports Jewish causes and
Management is now headed by early childhood education.
daughter Jane and son Allan, who
co-chair the company. His daugh- 250. HERB SIMON
ter Diane used to run the residen-
tial leasing department. $3.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: (
SOURCE: REAL ESTATE
250. PETER KELLOGG AGE: 85 RESIDENCE: INDIANAPOLIS
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
$3.4 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: $ Simon is cofounder of Simon
SOURCE: INVESTMENTS Property Group, which owns 206
AGE: 77 RESIDENCE: SHORT HILLS, NJ properties in the U.S., includ-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: ing 107 malls, and has stakes in 35
In 1973 Kellogg went to work for shopping centers international-
his father at brokerage house ly. At a time when brick-and-mor-
Spear, Leeds & Kellogg. Eventu- tar stores are shuttering, SPG has
ally he took control of the com- launched in-store experiences like
pany and sold it to Goldman a partnership with the augment-
Sachs for $6.5 billion in 2000. ed reality game Harry Potter: Wiz-
Today he is chairman of reinsur- ards Unite.
ance outfit IAT, which he started
back in 1986. 250. CHARLES SIMONYI
239. SCOTT COOK $3.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ^
250. J.B. PRITZKER
$3.5 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: * SOURCE: MICROSOFT
AGE: 71 RESIDENCE: MEDINA, WA
SOURCE: SOFTWARE $3.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: #
AGE: 67 RESIDENCE: WOODSIDE, CA SOURCE: HOTELS, INVESTMENTS PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
AGE: 54 RESIDENCE: SPRINGFIELD, IL
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: Simonyi made his fortune develop-
Long before Cook became chairman of financial software giant PHILANTHROPY SCORE: ing Excel and Word as an early em-
Intuit, as a college student he was president of the University of After defeating incumbent Bruce ployee at Microsoft. But he started
Southern California’s moribund ski club. Showing early business Rauner in the election for gov- coding years earlier. Growing up
savvy, he says he turned it into the biggest ski club in the state. ernor of Illinois last November, in communist Hungary, Simonyi
(In this 1975 shot, he and sister Sharon take a break from the Pritzker became America’s rich- worked as a night watchman at a
slopes.) His plan was to get an economics Ph.D., but his stint as est politician—even richer than computer center, ensuring the ma-

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ski club president, in part, persuaded him to apply to Harvard the president (No. 275) Pritzker, a chines didn’t turn off overnight. In
Business School. “I came to conclude you could do more to im- Hyatt hotel heir, spent more than exchange, he was allowed to code
prove people’s lives running large organizations and in business,” $175 million of his own money on and ultimately developed a pro-
Cook says. his campaign, one of the most ex- gram for the company.

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