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370. ANEEL BHUSRI 370. TODD CHRISTOPHER up as geeks. Before founding IT square feet of largely industri-
provider World Wide Technol- al space. He served in the Air
$2.2 BILLION Ì SELF-MADE SCORE: * $2.2 BILLION WX ogy in 1990, Kavanaugh was a Force for eight years and be-
SOURCE: BUSINESS SOFTWARE SELF-MADE SCORE: ( professional soccer player and came the first man to circum-
AGE: 53 RESIDENCE: SAN FRANCISCO SOURCE: HAIR CARE PRODUCTS Olympian. He’s since returned navigate the globe in a heli-
AGE: 57 RESIDENCE: CLEARWATER, FL
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. to sports as part of the owner- copter in 1982.
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. ship group for both the Stan-
Bhusri took a job as a corporate fi-
nance analyst at Morgan Stanley From the fourth generation of a ley Cup-winning St. Louis Blues 370. NICHOLAS PRITZKER II
after graduating from Brown. He family of hairdressers, Christo- and USL soccer team St. Louis
later turned down a lucrative gig pher dropped out of high school FC. He’s also bringing a Major $2.2 BILLION 3 SELF-MADE SCORE: #
at a venture capital firm, opting to work at his cousin’s salon and League Soccer team to St. Louis. SOURCE: HOTELS, INVESTMENTS 179
instead to work with Dave Duf- opened his own when he was AGE: 75 RESIDENCE: NICASIO, CA
field (No. 45) at enterprise soft- 22. In 1987 he founded the hair- 370. H. ROSS PEROT JR. PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
ware company PeopleSoft. The care company Vogue Internation- Pritzker returns to The Forbes T
two eventually founded Workday, al. Christopher sold a stake to the $2.2 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: $ 400 after five years thanks to H
a human resources and financial Carlyle Group in 2014. Two years SOURCE: REAL ESTATE an early investment in Juul. E

management software company, later, he and the Carlyle Group AGE: 60 RESIDENCE: DALLAS The e-cigarette maker was val- F
in 2005; he is CEO. sold the entire company to John- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: ued at $38 billion after to- O
son & Johnson for $3.3 billion. The son of the late Ross Perot bacco major Altria acquired B
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370. CHUCK BUNDRANT Sr., he “got to see the Ameri- a 35% stake in December. E
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370. JAMES DINAN can Dream unfold” in his liv- Forbes estimates it is worth
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$2.2 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: * ing room. As a kid, Perot col- less now after several deaths 0
SOURCE: FISHING $2.2 BILLION WX lected computer punch cards from vaping and a possible 0
AGE: 77 RESIDENCE: SEATTLE SELF-MADE SCORE: * from the data centers of Elec- federal ban of flavored e-cig-
SOURCE: HEDGE FUNDS
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: tronic Data Systems, his fa- arettes. Active in California
AGE: 60 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY
Bundrant is chairman and co- ther’s pioneering IT compa- politics, Pritzker backed ballot
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
founder of Trident Seafoods, the ny. Perot Jr. forged his own initiatives to ban high-capaci-
Dinan founded money manage- way in real estate; Forbes esti- ty gun magazines and to legal-
largest vertically integrated sea- ment firm York Capital Manage-
food company in North America, mates his Hillwood Develop- ize marijuana in 2016; voters
ment in 1991 after losing his life ment Co. owns over 40 million approved both.
with $2.6 billion in estimated rev-
savings in the 1987 Black Mon-
enues and operations in China,
Japan and Germany. Trident sells day stock market crash. As chair- • B E G I N N I N G S •
man and CEO he oversees $19 bil-
Alaskan wild-caught salmon, cod
lion in assets.
and pollock to retailers like Cost-
co and Safeway, and to fast food
chains like Long John Silver’s and 370. BRUCE KARSH
McDonald’s. In 1961, 19-year-old
Bundrant drove from Tennessee to $2.2 BILLION 3 SELF-MADE SCORE: *
SOURCE: PRIVATE EQUITY
Seattle with $80 in his pocket to
AGE: 64 RESIDENCE: LOS ANGELES
start fishing. He eventually made
his way to Alaska, slept on the PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
docks and worked on any fishing
boat that would hire him. 370. HOWARD MARKS
$2.2 BILLION 3 SELF-MADE SCORE: *
370. BEN CHESTNUT SOURCE: PRIVATE EQUITY
AGE: 73 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY
$2.2 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
SOURCE: EMAIL MARKETING
AGE: 45 RESIDENCE: ATLANTA In May, Brookfield Asset Manage-
ment announced it was acquiring
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
62% of Oaktree Capital for $4.7 bil-
370. DAN KURZIUS lion to create a $475 billion alterna-
tive-asset powerhouse. Brookfield
$2.2 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ( bought 20% of shares owned by a
SOURCE: EMAIL MARKETING group of employees including Oak-
AGE: 47 RESIDENCE: ATLANTA tree co-chairmen Karsh and Marks.
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. The men will remain in their roles
at Oaktree and will share control
Chestnut and Kurzius are the 370. RANDAL KIRK
founders of Mailchimp, an email of the firm’s remaining 38% stake
marketing firm that’s a favorite with other employees. Marks and $2.2 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: *
Karsh started investing together
among small-business owners. Be- SOURCE: PHARMACEUTICALS
in the mid-1980s when they both
fore starting the business, Chest- AGE: 65 RESIDENCE: LAKE WORTH, FL
joined asset manager TCW Group.
nut taught himself to build web- PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
sites by reading technical books Shares of his biotech firm Intrexon, which lost $341 million in 2018,
at Barnes & Noble, and Kurzius 370. JIM KAVANAUGH are down 58% in the past year. Moon shots are costly. Intrexon,
served as a part-time DJ and com- which developed a way to keep apples from browning, is working
$2.2 BILLION Ì SELF-MADE SCORE: (
petitive skateboarder. Mailchimp to create similar technology for romaine lettuce. It is also creating a
SOURCE: IT PROVIDER
began as a side project and took modified species of mosquito that could reduce the spread of malar-
AGE: 57 RESIDENCE: ST. LOUIS
six years to become a full-blown ia. RJ sold greeting cards door-to-door when he was 9 years old,
company; it now generates more PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. the same age as in the above photo with his younger brother; he
than $600 million in revenue. Not all tech billionaires grew claims he had an 85% close rate.

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