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296. PAT STRYKER but he still owns U.S. News &
World Report and has a stake
$2.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ! in real estate developer Boston
SOURCE: MEDICAL EQUIPMENT Properties, which he cofounded
AGE: 63 RESIDENCE: FORT COLLINS, CO
in 1970. He launched the Zuck-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: erman STEM Leadership Pro-
Her paternal grandfather was gram in 2016, providing $100
Homer Stryker, an orthopedic million-plus over 20 years to
surgeon who founded medical- foster scientific collaboration
devices company Stryker. Her between the U.S. and Israel.
passion for service also comes
172 from her maternal grandparents, 306. CLIFFORD ASNESS
who were educational mission-
aries in China. She has doled out $2.8 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: *
T nearly $200 million through her SOURCE: MONEY MANAGEMENT
S
I Bohemian Foundation to sup- AGE: 53 RESIDENCE: GREENWICH, CT
L
port initiatives including the na- PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
E tion’s first memorial of racial ter-
H Asness is cofounder of invest-
T ror lynchings.
ment management firm AQR
296. MICHAEL RUBIN Capital Management, which
296. GLEN TAYLOR has $194 billion in assets under
$2.9 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: * management as of June. The
SOURCE: ONLINE RETAIL $2.9 BILLION WX firm has had a bad run over the
AGE: 47 RESIDENCE: BRYN MAWR, PA SELF-MADE SCORE: ( past two years. He apologized
SOURCE: PRINTING
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: to investors, and AQR laid off
AGE: 78 RESIDENCE: MANKATO, MN
At age 8, Rubin started selling vegetable seeds and homemade sta- a small percentage of its work-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
tionery door-to-door in his suburban Philadelphia neighborhood. At ers. In high school he worked
As a teenager Taylor worked on
10, he hired other kids to shovel driveways. At 12, he started a ski- as a cashier and server at a
tuning shop, pictured above, in his parents’ basement; it spun out his neighbors’ farms in Min- Carvel ice cream store in Roslyn
enough cash for him to buy a Porsche before he turned 16 and net- nesota for $1 an hour. Three Heights, New York.
ted him his first million by age 18. Today, Rubin’s fortune stems from days after graduating from high
school he took a job at a local
his majority ownership in e-commerce companies including Fanatics 306. BENNETT DORRANCE
printing company. He bought
and Rue Gilt Groupe.
that company in 1975 for $2
$2.8 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: @
million and grew it into Tay-
SOURCE: CAMPBELL SOUP
lor Corp., a printing firm with AGE: 72 RESIDENCE: PARADISE VAL-
296. VINCENT 296. HAIM SABAN over $2 billion in sales. Taylor LEY, AZ
owns stakes in Minnesota’s NBA
MCMAHON $2.9 BILLION WX team, the Timberwolves; its PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
SELF-MADE SCORE: ( WNBA team, the Lynx; and the The Campbell Soup heir, who
$2.9 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: ( SOURCE: TELEVISION NETWORKS, United FC soccer team. owns a 15% stake in the com-
SOURCE: ENTERTAINMENT INVESTMENTS pany, remains a director after a
AGE: 74 RESIDENCE: GREENWICH, CT AGE: 75 RESIDENCE: BEVERLY HILLS, CA 296. TY WARNER proxy battle led by activist inves-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: PHILANTHROPY SCORE: tor Daniel Loeb (No. 306). In 2017
he donated $45 million worth
McMahon’s World Wrestling En- Saban chairs struggling Span- $2.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ) of Campbell Soup shares to his
tertainment took a public beating ish-language broadcast net- SOURCE: REAL ESTATE, PLUSH TOYS foundation, which pays for first-
in March when comedian John work Univision, which put it- AGE: 75 RESIDENCE: OAK BROOK, IL generation students to go to col-
Oliver excoriated the working con- self up for sale in July. That PHILANTHROPY SCORE: lege in Arizona. Dorrance is a li-
ditions of its wrestlers on his HBO same month he said he’d in- After a failed attempt as a teenage censed pilot with a hangar in
show. WWE hit back, challenging vest $500 million in Saban actor, the Illinois native accepted Arizona.
“every point in his one-sided pre- Music Group, a new record a sales job with plush-toy maker
sentation.” McMahon, who grew label that will sign global art- Dakin, where he worked for 20
up in a trailer park, bought the ists. Much of his fortune years. He then designed wood- 306. ARCHIE ALDIS “RED”
business from his dad and turned comes from TV (he helped cre- en music boxes in Italy and later EMMERSON & FAMILY
it into a global phenomenon with ate Mighty Morphin Power created Beanie Babies. That fad
$930 million in annual revenue. Rangers). He got his start in faded, but his Ty Inc. still makes $2.8 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: (
His wife, Linda, headed President the music industry, working as miniature plush animals. He’s also SOURCE: TIMBERLAND, LUMBER MILLS
Trump’s Small Business Admin- a concert promoter. acquired hotels like the Four Sea- AGE: 90 RESIDENCE: REDDING, CA
istration before leaving to chair a sons New York and Four Seasons PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
PAC that supports Trump. 296. ROBERT SANDS Biltmore in Santa Barbara. He is the founder and chairman
emeritus of Sierra Pacific Indus-
296. JEFF ROTHSCHILD $2.9 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: $ 296. MORTIMER tries, a forest products company
SOURCE: LIQUOR
AGE: 61 RESIDENCE: CANANDAIGUA, NY that owns over 2 million acres
$2.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ^ ZUCKERMAN in California and Washington.
SOURCE: FACEBOOK PHILANTHROPY SCORE: He began working in lumber
AGE: 64 RESIDENCE: PALO ALTO, CA In March, Sands stepped down $2.9 BILLION WX mills at 19, following in the foot-
SELF-MADE SCORE: *
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: as CEO of his family booze steps of his father, “Curly” Em-
SOURCE: REAL ESTATE, MEDIA
Before becoming one of Face- business Constellation Brands AGE: 82 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY merson, who built and owned
book’s earliest employees, the en- to supplant his brother, Rich- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: a sawmill in Humboldt Coun-
gineer turned venture capital in- ard (No. 275), as chairman. His ty, Califormia. Emmerson’s sons
vestor worked at Honeywell and replacement is the first outsid- Zuckerman sold the New York George and Mark are president
Intel. He left Facebook in 2015. er to serve as CEO. Daily News in September 2017, and chairman.

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