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275. STEVE WYNN 287. JAMES IRSAY bled software reseller, for less than credit analyst, he amassed a for-
$1 million in 1989. After gradu- tune dealing in junk bonds in the
$3.1 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * $3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: @ ating from Amherst College, Lee 1980s and 1990s. Today his Renco
SOURCE: CASINOS, HOTELS SOURCE: INDIANAPOLIS COLTS returned to South Korea, where Group, an industrial empire, has
AGE: 77 RESIDENCE: LAS VEGAS AGE: 60 RESIDENCE: CARMEL, IN she grew up, and worked at auto estimated revenues of $5 billion.
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: PHILANTHROPY SCORE: parts maker Daesung Industri- Rennert is enmeshed in a legal
al in order to save money for her battle with Ron Perelman (No. 63)
The former casino mogul has A guitar aficionado, Irsay bought
M.B.A. over ownership stakes in Humvee
been laying low since 2018, when Pink Floyd guitarist David Gil-
maker AM General.
multiple Wynn Resorts em- mour’s 1969 black Fender Strato-
ployees alleged sexual miscon- caster at auction this summer 287. JOSEPH LIEMANDT
duct. He has denied the claims. for $3.9 million. The Indianapo- 287. THOMAS SIEBEL
In February of last year, Wynn lis Colts owner inherited the NFL $3 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: & 171
stepped down as CEO and the team from his father in 1997. Irsay SOURCE: SOFTWARE $3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
next month sold all of his shares has spent most of his life with the AGE: 51 RESIDENCE: AUSTIN, TX SOURCE: BUSINESS SOFTWARE
in the company he started with Colts, working in ticket sales and PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. AGE: 66 RESIDENCE: WOODSIDE, CA T
ex-wife, Elaine Wynn (No. 388). public relations before becoming Liemandt runs ESW Capital, a PHILANTHROPY SCORE: E
H
Recently, he started an online general manager in 1984 at age 24. company that has purchased doz- A former Oracle employee, Sie-
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art gallery, which he is reported- ens of small software firms. His bel made his fortune from soft- O
ly using to sell some of his mu- 287. THAI LEE companies are well known for em- ware firm Siebel Systems, which R
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seum-quality pieces by the likes ploying freelancers from outside he started in 1993 and sold to Or- E
of Matisse, Picasso and Warhol. $3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ( the U.S. The investor hasn’t talk- acle for $5.8 billion in 2006. These S

Wynn started working at age 15, SOURCE: IT PROVIDER ed to the press about his business days he is focused on C3.ai, his AI 4
0
selling Good Humor ice cream AGE: 60 RESIDENCE: AUSTIN, TX dealings in more than a decade. startup. Before working in tech, 0
from his bicycle. PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. Siebel was a cowboy, moving cat-
Lee runs IT provider SHI Inter- 287. IRA RENNERT tle and baling hay at a ranch in
287. ORLANDO BRAVO national, which hit $10 billion Idaho when he was 23 years old.
in revenue and 4,000 employees $3 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: * “After graduation I got in a pick-
$3 BILLION Ì SELF-MADE SCORE: * in 2018, serving 15,000 custom- SOURCE: INVESTMENTS up truck and started driving west,”
SOURCE: PRIVATE EQUITY AGE: 85 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY Siebel says. “[I] stopped in Belle-
ers. She and her now ex-husband
AGE: 49 RESIDENCE: SAN FRANCISCO PHILANTHROPY SCORE: vue, Idaho, and was hired on a
bought its predecessor, a trou-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: A Brooklyn native and former local ranch as a cowboy.” Today he
owns and operates the 71,000 acre
Bravo’s firm Thoma Bravo has
perfected the software buyout, • B E G I N N I N G S • Dearborn Ranch in Wolf Creek,
making him the first billionaire Montana.
from Puerto Rico.
287. WILLIAM WRIGLEY JR.
287. JIM DAVIS $3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: #

SOURCE: CHEWING GUM
$3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
AGE: 55 RESIDENCE: NORTH PALM
SOURCE: STAFFING & RECRUITING
BEACH, FL
AGE: 59 RESIDENCE: COCKEYSVILLE,
MD PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A.
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: The chewing gum heir led a $65
million funding round in med-
Davis is chairman of $13.4 bil-
ical cannabis startup Surter-
lion (revenues) staffing busi-
ra Wellness in July 2018 and
ness Allegis Group, which he
and his cousin Stephen Bisciot- became the CEO four months
ti (No. 150) started when they later. Wrigley, known as Beau,
ran his family business for al-
were in their mid-20s. Through
most a decade before selling it
Redwood Capital, he also in-
vests in everything from retire- to Mars for $23 billion in 2008.
ment communities to propane
distribution. 296. JIMMY HASLAM

287. JOHNELLE HUNT $2.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: #
SOURCE: GAS STATIONS, RETAIL
AGE: 65 RESIDENCE: KNOXVILLE, TN
$3 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: &
SOURCE: TRUCKING PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
AGE: 87 RESIDENCE: FAYETTEVILLE, AR In 2017, Berkshire Hathaway
275. DON HANKEY
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: bought a 39% stake of Pilot Fly-
Johnelle and her husband, John- $3.1 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: & ing J for a reported $2.8 billion.
SOURCE: AUTO LOANS In 2023, Berkshire will acquire
nie (d. 2006), cofounded J.B. Hunt
AGE: 76 RESIDENCE: MALIBU, CA another 41.4% of the truck stop
Transport Services in 1969 with
five trucks. Today she owns 17% PHILANTHROPY SCORE: chain founded by Haslam’s fa-
of the $8.6 billion (sales) compa- Hankey’s father opened a Ford dealership in Los Angeles in 1958. ther, Jim, in 1958. Pilot, which
ny. Hunt is the chair of investment Hankey started out washing and polishing cars in his dad’s lot as a Haslam has run since 1996, has
firm Hunt Ventures, which broke teen and the next summer graduated to selling used cars. His father more than 750 locations in 44
ground on a $100 million retail died in 1962, and ten years later Hankey (at left above) bought out states and $29 billion in reve-
and residential development in his father’s partners and took control of Midway Ford on Vermont nue in 2018. He owns a majority
northwest Arkansas in February. Avenue. He eventually focused on subprime car loans: Today his stake in the Cleveland Browns,
auto services empire boasts nearly $2.1 billion in sales. worth $1.2 billion.

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