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319. JOHN HENRY 319. JEFFREY LURIE 319. PHIL RUFFIN Capital these days. Stevens, a mi-
nority shareholder in the Gold-
$2.7 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: & $2.7 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: $ $2.7 BILLION WX en State Warriors, was fined
SOURCE: SPORTS SOURCE: PHILADELPHIA EAGLES SELF-MADE SCORE: * $500,000 in June and banned
AGE: 70 RESIDENCE: BOCA RATON, FL AGE: 68 RESIDENCE: WYNNEWOOD, SOURCE: CASINOS, REAL ESTATE from attending further NBA
PA AGE: 84 RESIDENCE: LAS VEGAS
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: games for a year after he pushed
Henry’s trophy cabinet is get- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: PHILANTHROPY SCORE: and “directed obscene language
ting crowded. The Boston Red Lurie flipped burgers at a Mas- Ruffin bought Casino Miami, toward” a member of the Toron-
Sox beat the Los Angeles Dodgers sachusetts drive-in theater be- which features live wagered jai to Raptors during Game 3 of the
in the 2018 World Series, claim- fore becoming an adjunct assis- alai games from Fronton Holdings, NBA Finals.
ing the title for the fourth time tant social-policy professor at for an undisclosed sum in Decem-
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under Henry’s ownership. “I’m Boston University. He went on ber 2018. His most valuable asset 319. JOHN TYSON
just stunned,” said the billionaire, to buy the Philadelphia Eagles is the Treasure Island Hotel & Ca-
who bought the Sox with his part- in 1994 for a reported $185 mil- sino on the Vegas Strip, which is $2.7 BILLION 3 SELF-MADE SCORE: %
T SOURCE: FOOD PROCESSING
S ner Tom Werner for $380 million lion, using stock in the family worth an estimated $1.5 billion.
I He owns the Trump Internation- AGE: 66 RESIDENCE: SPRINGDALE, AR
L in 2001. The club is now worth company Harcourt General as
al Hotel in a 50-50 venture with PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
E $3.2 billion. He also has a stake in collateral. Now worth $3.1 bil-
H Premier League soccer team Liv- lion, the Eagles won their first President Trump. He has come a He chairs Tyson Foods, the com-
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erpool, which won the Champions Super Bowl in 2018, beating the long way from his first job, work- pany founded by his grandfather.
League in June. New England Patriots, which ing at a W.T. Grant department He started working for the fami-
Lurie also had tried to buy. store, where he once was tasked ly business at age 13, transferring
with repossessing a monkey a cus- eggs to incubators in the hatch-
• B E G I N N I N G S • 319. SEAN PARKER tomer didn’t pay for. ery and vaccinating chickens on
the farm. He served as CEO from
$2.7 BILLION WX 319. THOMAS SECUNDA 2000 to 2006. This year, Tyson
SELF-MADE SCORE: * Foods debuted a plant-based nug-
SOURCE: FACEBOOK $2.7 BILLION WX get.
AGE: 39 RESIDENCE: LOS ANGELES SELF-MADE SCORE: *
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: SOURCE: BLOOMBERG LP
AGE: 65 RESIDENCE: CROTON-ON- 333. WILLIAM BERKLEY
At 19 he upended the record in-
HUDSON, NY
dustry with Napster. In 2004, $2.6 BILLION 3 SELF-MADE SCORE: 8
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
at 24, he became Facebook’s SOURCE: INSURANCE
first president. Both companies Secunda worked in systems re- AGE: 73 RESIDENCE: COCONUT
eventually bounced him. Now search at Salomon Brothers, GROVE, FL
he’s funding his own ideas, in- where he met Michael Bloom- PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
vesting $250 million through berg and became one of four Berkley is chairman of W.R. Berk-
his cancer immunotherapy founders of financial services and ley, an insurance company that he
institute. media company Bloomberg LP. He founded with $2,500 as an M.B.A.
helped build Bloomberg’s lucrative
student. Shares of the insurer rose
319. BOB PARSONS terminal business, the building more than a third in the past year,
319. JOHN block for Bloomberg LP’s estimat- returning him to The Forbes 400
CATSIMATIDIS $2.7 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ) ed $10 billion in revenue. for the first time since 1992.
SOURCE: WEB HOSTING
$2.7 BILLION T AGE: 68 RESIDENCE: SCOTTSDALE, AZ 319. E. JOE SHOEN 333. TIMOTHY BOYLE
SELF-MADE SCORE: ) PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
SOURCE: OIL, REAL ESTATE $2.7 BILLION WX
The colorful founder of $2.6 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: %
AGE: 71 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK SELF-MADE SCORE: %
GoDaddy, Parsons sold his SOURCE: COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR
CITY SOURCE: U-HAUL
remaining stake in the Web- AGE: 70 RESIDENCE: PHOENIX AGE: 70 RESIDENCE: PORTLAND, OR
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
hosting firm and stepped PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
Catsimatidis went from host- down from the board in 2018. Boyle started at Columbia Sports-
ing a weekly radio show to He now has investments in Shoen is chairman of U-Haul’s wear in 1971 after his father, who
purchasing a radio station this numerous ventures including parent company Amerco. His par- had led the company since 1964,
year. In June he bid $12 mil- seven motorcycle dealerships, ents founded the truck and trail- died. As a college senior, he helped
lion for WABC in New York. a golf club, a production er rental company in 1945, which his mom run the business started
The bulk of his fortune lies in studio and golf-equipment now has more than 21,000 loca- by his maternal grandparents. As
real estate and a Pennsylva- company PXG. He’s spent tions and has a presence in all 50 CEO, Boyle has spoken out against
nia oil refinery. After graduat- nearly $600 million buying U.S. states. Shoen left U-Haul in Trump’s immigration policies.
ing from Brooklyn Tech high up real estate in Arizona. The 1979 to start a specialty paint re-
school in 1967, Catsimatidis son of hard-core gamblers, tailer but went back and took con-
got a job at Red Apple Gro- Parsons, who grew up poor in trol in 1986. He’s been chairman 333. JIM COULTER
cery, stocking shelves and un- inner-city Baltimore, relied on since. $2.6 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: &
loading deliveries for $1.10 an his entrepreneurial grit and SOURCE: PRIVATE EQUITY
hour, then working his way willingness to break the rules 319. MARK STEVENS AGE: 59 RESIDENCE: SAN FRANCISCO
up to cashier. He continued even as a kid. One way he PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
working at Red Apple while made money: go to a popular $2.7 BILLION WX
attending New York Univer- bus stop, pop a quarter into SELF-MADE SCORE: ( Coulter cofounded private equi-
SOURCE: VENTURE CAPITAL
sity, then dropped out shy of the newspaper vending ma- AGE: 59 RESIDENCE: ATHERTON, CA ty giant TPG in 1992 with David
graduating to buy half the chine and take all the papers. Bonderman (No. 217). This year
grocery store for $10,000. When the bus arrived, he’d PHILANTHROPY SCORE: the firm, of which he is co-CEO,
Today he owns the Gristedes sell the papers—at a markup— The former partner at VC firm Se- invested in dozens of companies,
chain of grocery stores. to the passengers. quoia is investing via his S-Cubed including healthcare drone deliv-
ery service Zipline.

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