Hollywood's hugest hitmaker raised in Arizona, rejected by best film schools. Today boasts 13.5 million subscribers, gaining on Son of hotel magnate Conrad hilton (d. 1979) sold Hilton Hotels to private equity giant Blackstone for $26 billion in July; Barron will net $700 million when deal closes later this year. Irwin has sold 13.5 million shares in past two years. Harrah's Entertainment Flowers & Co. buyout shop decade later. sunglasses. William's father, George, was a prospector, land baron, U.S. senator who "won" failing San Francisco Examiner newspaper as payment for gambling debt in 1880. Marquett continued on to complete his bachelor's in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. Computer salesman-turned-entrepreneur sold house for $150,000, borrowed another $10 million to buy sewer-and-drain company Conco. It can be set to a range of one foot to 150 meters. Sold Cogen Technologies, then the nation's largest privately held power company, to Enron for $1.5 billion in cash and stock in 1999; sold all of his shares before energy giant's bankruptcy in 2001. Founded investment company Yucaipa 1986; made fortune buying and selling supermarket chains Fred Meyer, Jurgensen's, Ralph's. Owns 45 million shares of Schering-Plough Now clashes with daughter Shari, 53; says to succeed him she must "change her behavior" to win over board. Bought First Premier Bank in 1986, later founded credit card outfit Premier Bankcard, early pioneer in subprime lending. Amerigon Founded own firm 1988. Has earmarked hundreds of millions to charity. Democratic fundraiser ditching the Clintons for Obama. Host of famous annual media retreat in Sun Valley, Idaho. Sales: $2.4 billion. : newspapers (8 dailies), cable (Weather Channel), TV stations. Initially focused on building, financing low-income housing; moved into riskier luxury buildings in New York. Assets under management: $28 billion. Shaw & Co. from an apartment above a communist bookstore. . in August 2005 (TripAdvisor, Hotels.com, Hotwire). Bank of America Penned 2 books on fishing. Walter's father, Moses, started Triangle Publications; Walter inherited it at age 32, added magazines (Seventeen, TV Guide). Horse racer seeking first Kentucky Derby win. Sold out to Proctor & Gamble in 1999 for $2.3 billion. Sales up 13% to $1.9 billion last year. Today portfolio includes 135 commercial buildings: offices, hotels, retail. Sold private hedge fund outfit to Sales: $520 million. Provides hospitality services to London's Wembley Stadium; venue will host first NFL game outside North America this month. Chairman of ESL Investments kept busy during high school reading corporate reports, financial textbooks. Sold just under 10% stake to Chinese government weeks before the offering. Bought pro baseball's Texas Rangers from group including George W. Bush 1998. Sold stake in one of his buyout firms to Amvescap for $375 million last year. Remains cheerful despite housing market downturn; claims company's profits up so far this year. Third generation still owns about half the company; all on board but not involved in day-to-day management. Dyslexic; opened the Charles & Helen Schwab Foundation for children with learning disabilities and ADHD in 1989. Met partner Gary Burrell (see) met at AlliedSignal, left and founded Garmin in 1989 to make navigation devices for aviation, boating, using newfangled Global Positioning System. Owns 25% of Omaha Royals minor league baseball team. for $45 billion in cash and assumed debt a few months later; deal expected to close later this year. U.S. Expected philanthropic gifts to reach $400 million this year. Other investments: On Buffett board at Berkshire Hathaway. "Otherwise you get into these small companies that eat up all your time and don't go anywhere.". visionary preparing to give up day-to-day involvement in company he cofounded 32 years ago to spend more time focused on his philanthropic endeavors. Luxottica Older brother Melvin (see) left native Brooklyn for Midwest, ended up in Army. Duo parted ways in 2000. Disney's days on the Forbes 400 may be numbered: filed for divorce from wife of 52 years in January. Borrowed $460 million to buy 522,000 acres in 1988. Became vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway; owns 15,000 shares worth $1.9 billion. Left Microsoft in 1983 to fight Hodgkin's disease. Covered overrun by selling $300 million in real estate. Led $700 million leveraged buyout of Duane Reade drugstore chain 2003. Elbowed Picasso's "Le Rve" just before he planned to sell the painting to hedge fund manager Steve Cohen (see) for $139 million. Then Harvard M.B.A. Expanded 5-person operation into vast billboard and real estate empire. Shares up 80% in past year. Built Kendall-Jackson into populist wine concern. Entrepreneurial duo opened drive-in diner after stints in the Army. Failed to land board seat with cell phone producer Motorola in May; initially demanded company chief Ed Zander buy back shares, now pushing for cost cuts, reorganization. , Known for obsession with due diligence, efficiency. Founded J.C. Owns ranches on 20,000 acres on Fort Worth's Barnett Shale. Oakley Now owns 12 million square feet of office space in New York, developing 2 new office buildings in Midtown. It usually does.". With brother James opened chain of general stores in Bentonville, Ark. Fled to Europe 1983 after being indicted for manipulating U.S. oil system, trading Iranian crude during 1980s hostage crisis, evading $50 million in taxes. That's for my heirs to worry about.". Today more than 300 stores in Texas and Mexico. Money now reinvested in oil, real estate, more car dealerships. Expanded market share with premium puppy chow; focused on nutrition, high-end breeders. For the first time since 1989 there isn't a Walton in Top 10 of The Forbes 400; Wal-Mart shares flat over past 12 months as bigger gainers passed by famously secretive children and daughter-in-law of Sam Walton (d. 1992). Fortune crushed after suffering 2 years of losses when tech bubble burst. American Real Estate Partners ; firm became Russia's 2nd-largest oil company. Later spent days managing TG&Y discount store, nights making wooden frames in garage with wife. Pioneered the exclusive selling of term life insurance, sent swarms of sales "termites" out to attack rivals' market share. In 2001 sold Fox Family Channel, joint venture with Rupert Murdoch (see), to Disney for $5.2 billion. New York mayor, media maven gives away $715 million to charity in 5 years; gets richer anyway. Battling HP for China market. Worked for Netscape, Amazon before creating venture firm Sherpalo in 2000. Equity Residential Searching for more universities that will do the same; several have turned him down because of his strict rules as to how funds should be used. But U.S. Army servicemen loved GPS during Gulf war (though Garmin never had a military contract), and now in Iraq. Duo formed Broadcom 1991 using Nicholas' spare bedroom to design high-speed telecom chips. Later had buyer's remorse; sued duo for larger sum, eventually settled. Built publicly traded holding company Valhi with hostile takeovers. Sold 34 acres for $1.2 billion to Elad Group (owners of Manhattan's Plaza Hotel) in June; deal the most expensive land sale in Sin City history. what happened to archie in monarch of the glen; funeral poem our father kept a garden. stock to charity in July. With partners bought real estate developer Irvine Co. for $337 million 1977. Harvard M.B.A. 1973. Son of bingo parlor operator catching up to archnemesis Sheldon Adelson (see) in Chinese gambling mecca Macau. Purchased 8-year-old computer-repair firm Geek Squad 2002 for $3 million; today all U.S. Best Buy stores have Geek Squad service available. Raised another $25 million from venture capital firms Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Sequoia Capital in 1999. Johns Hopkins University, Distinguished Alumnus of The Johns Hopkins University, article "Marquett Davon Burton" is from Wikipedia, "Venture Capital Firm Invests in Tech Company Owned by Young Pasadena City College Grad Pasadena Now", "Scholars 2007-2008 | McNair Scholars Program", "Outstanding Recent Graduate Award 2017 | Johns Hopkins Alumni", "How one Chicago startup seeks to solve America's college dropout problem", "#47 Can This Tiny Gadget Keep Kids in College? With Stephen Schwarzman and Hamilton James (see both) took their investment house Blackstone public in June; shares down 30% since. for $575 million. Sold in 2005 to Stanley made fortune developing commercial and retail properties. Shares soared 145% in past year. In no hurry to expand; says drilling rigs too expensive right now. Took job at Drexel Burnham Lambert 1980s; firm bankrupt 1990, created Apollo later that year. Art collector founded 13,000-square-foot museum devoted to Georgia O'Keeffe 1997; houses 1,149 paintings, drawings, sculptures. Gucci 1994; today one of nation's largest private university systems. Operations now controlled through holding company United National Corp. Ran for President twice; railed against Nafta, budget deficits. Plan to pass control of empire to Jay's son Tom (see), cousin Nick (see) and niece Penny collapsed in 2001; family agreed to split empire 11 ways, drawing lawsuit by Robert's 2 youngest children, Matthew and Liesel. 1985 with $400,000; since then they have invested in 112 companies, with a total enterprise value of $200 billion. In 2014, Marquett Davon Burton invented the world's first effortless attendance technology, called the Fletch App. Built media empire. M.B.A. from Stanford, then startups (3DO, Go Corp.), Netscape. Played shortstop for pro baseball's Detroit Tigers farm team. Semel quit under fire this year. Funds Genographic Project: uses DNA data to study human origins. Collection of European cars was on display at Museum of Fine Arts in Boston: Bugatti, Bentley, Alfa Romeo, Ferrari, Donated $5 billion worth of shares to Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation in 2000. Earlier this year rumored to be interested in buying the New York Times Co. Today manages 4 private equity funds with $6 billion invested across 35 companies. Became sole owner 1996. Created spot oil market 1968, founded Marc Rich & Co. 1973. Parted ways with head coach Bill Parcells last year. Inicio; Servicios. Devout Baptist keeps stores closed on Sundays, enforces strict Christian corporate code. Nicholas unexpectedly quit as CEO in 2003; now company blames him for stock-options backdating. Merged with Combined International in 1982; renamed Sold Mirage Resorts to Kirk Kerkorian (see) for $6.4 billion in 2000. Spent 3 decades in Hollywood then quit News Corp. 1992 to be owner, not employee. . Ran her first diversified fund 1993. Salesmen became well known for clean-cut image. Founded Pat Ryan & Associates insurance firm 1964; sold policies directly through car dealerships. Marquett Davon Burton is an American technology entrepreneur. With Peter Peterson and Hamilton James (see both) took their investment house Blackstone public in June; shares down 30% since. Once owned 25% stake in company; has sold large chunks of shares over time. Once clearly defined, Fidelity stakes amongst Johnson family members are now one of the best-kept secrets in capitalism. Parents handed control of companyand nearly half of their stockto Robert and brothers John and William (see both) 2004; shares down 15% since. Father, Perry (d. 2006), inherited family fortune created by oil baron uncle Sid Richardson 1959. Now buying up auto parts companies. This year took company private for $22 billion with management and investors; deal backed by Goldman Sachs and Fayez Sarofim (see). Winnie: leads family foundation. Company says Abby has sold some of her shares to other family members; family still controls 49% of company. "Mouth of the South" getting richer with real estate, food. Keck Foundation. Best revenge: One year later he buys Pixar graphics startup from Star Wars creator George Lucas (see) for $10 million. With brother Seymour (d. 2001), took over business. In 2012 Burton founded his first technology company, HobbyBuddy, a platform where individuals and couples could connect with people to enjoy a hobby or activity. Mom, Helen, passed away April; matriarch's fortune to pass to charity over next few years. plant in Edison, N.J. Budapest-born immigrant fled to Sweden during Soviet occupation of Hungary; landed in New York 1958. Built homes in Arizona; real estate market crashed, moved to California. Victor now chairman. Earned M.B.A. from U. of Michigan; founded info-tech outsourcing firm Syntel with wife, Neerja Sethi, while in school. Has yet to find a home for $100 million he is required to donate as part of an insider trading suit settlement. Today sales exceed $1.5 billion. Practiced bankruptcy law in Dallas, left to invest in oil and gas 1984. Started Forward Management in 1998, investment firm manages $1.5 billion today; Getty the majority shareholder. Donates money to hometown of Beloit, Wis. in effort to help improve city's economic infrastructure, bring in new jobs. In 2018, Burton was honored at the Global Good Funds annual gala for his work and efforts impacting global education. Southern Methodist U. alum donated $20 million in 1997 to build new football venue; SMU Mustangs now play at Ford Stadium. Acquired stakes in newly privatized Russian companies. Actress wife, Michele Chan, famous for roles on 1980s TV shows. All in on Asia: opened $265 million Sands Macau Casino May 2004, recouped entire investment in one year. Last year donated $11 million electronics plant to the late Jerry Falwell; Liberty U. founder converted building into new law school and church. Still owns large stakes in Options due in October. Partnered with Sam took helm 1966; business expanded to cleaning supplies (Pledge, Windex), bug spray (Off, Raid). Son Doug is cochairman; son Hendrik Jr. is chief executive. Wharton grad made plastic egg cartons during 1960s before buying a styrene plant 1970. 1:10:4714. Settled for $1 billion. , Johnson & Johnson Later built cell phone outfit Metro Mobile, sold to Bell Atlantic for $2.5 billion 1991. 13:246. Barbarians at the Gate took Thomas Frist's (see) HCA private with Bain Capital and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity last year for $33 billion. Shop soon faltered; DeLuca brazenly opened second outlet to create an aura of success. Dropped out of U. of Kentucky to follow passion; flew Pan Am planes for 10 years. for $3.9 billion in stock September 2006. Electronic Arts Berkshire Hathaway TXU with Edward Linde 1970, took public 1997. Estimated sales: $1.5 billion. Wharton dropout had first score with Triangle Industries' acquisition of National Can 1985; sold company for $4.2 billion 1988. Crew. Plowed $5 million into Manhattan real estate 1977; property worth $100 million 5 years later. Obsessed with due diligence, patience; disdains excessive executive pay. The legal saga of the former AIG chairman continues. Google Brin serves as president of technology, Page heads product division. Stumbling online: nearly all Cond Nast Web sites used mainly to sell subscriptions, deliver magazine content. Sold online classifieds site StumbleUpon.com to Ebay this year; owns similar Indian site Naukri.com. for $17.1 billion with Texas Pacific Group. Supports Jewish causes with wife, Abigail, and Wexner Foundation. Cash-strapped newlywed lived at mother's Brooklyn home during the week with wife, Joan; finally moved out when Joan was 8 months pregnant. Leonard took company public 1995; son William now chief executive. Son of Russian immigrants grew up in the Bronx. Lifelong Republican, campaign finance co-chair for Senator John McCain's faltering campaign for President. Acquired Left to commercialize research. Nature enthusiast donated $35 million to alma mater last year to develop physics department. Harvard M.B.A. Latest project: ReelzChannel, movie info and trivia channel. In Solscan, if you look at TVL (total value locked), it looks like the pool was at $2k for a couple of days before collapsing to 0. Widow of Al Lerner (d. 2002), who made billions in credit cards via MBNA, brought professional football back to Cleveland. Net profits last year: $1.1 billion. Launched Polo with $50,000 later that year. Bought Roy Disney's (see) Cessna 206, then created airline to haul gamblers from New England to Atlantic City. Chairman of Juilliard donated 140 original musical scores, sketches by Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, to school last year. With about half of America's college students dropping out, Burton launched the Fletch App to reduce college dropout rates[4][5]. Emphasizes saving: "There are 7 wonders of the world, but the eighth wonder is compounded interest." Plummeted in tech bust but up 185% from $11 low in 2001. Marriott Sr. (d. 1985), who started root beer stand Hot Shoppe 1927; expanded into catering, restaurants. It has been reported by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $3 million as of the data presented at the beginning of 2018. Merged with small online brokerage 1995; transformed into Internet powerhouse Ameritrade soon after. Is entrepreneurship necessary for financial freedom 6:474. Lindsay Sold just under 10% stake to Chinese government weeks before the offering. Stanford grad opened doors to eponymous discount brokerage firm in 1971. Sold to Yahoo in 1999 for $5.7 billion; company isn't visible today. Only child, William (d. 1951), assumed control in 1887, built nation's largest newspaper chain via sensational "yellow" journalism. Renaming company Icahn Enterprises; shares up 140% over past 12 months. Company holds No. Plans to house vast ivory collection in famed Duke-Seamans Mansion next year. Patent fees are now 84% of profits. Wears blue jeans, drives Chevy pick-up. Created Sotheby's His original $270 million bet paid back more than 3-fold; made $970 million including fees. The efactorys program put Burton in contact with MSU, Evangel University and Ozarks Technical Community College for an opportunity to implement Fletch in their systems. Marquett Burton earned his bachelors in political science at the University of California, Berkeley. Nashville native served as an Air Force flight surgeon. Currently controls more than 300 retail auto dealerships and 26 collision repair centers. Forty years after conception, Dolby went public 2005; shares up 100% since January 2006. Cascade for $66 million; later sold for $640 million profit. Owns a Batmobile from Batman Returns. Yahoo upside is over 200 million registered users; most Google visitors are strangers. Star Wars creator working with fellow billionaire Steven Spielberg (see) on 4th installment of Indiana Jones franchise; newest chapter slated for May 2008. First movie, Duel, made for TV. Largest individual landholder in the U.S. owns 2 million acres in 12 states, plus some ground in Argentina. Your email address will not be published. Father, James (Bud) Walton, and his brother Sam ran handful of small 5-and-10 stores in Arkansas and Missouri. Running for mayor of New York City: Friend of Bill plans to spend a few million dollars during 2009 primary, another $50 million if he wins Republican nomination. Raising cash for a new futures-oriented fund that will go live in October. Convinced by investor Frank Meyer to move to Chicago; founded Citadel Investment Group 1990 with Meyer's money. Company incrementally acquired by French bank Socit Gnrale. Recently published self-help business book The Science of Success; claimed company would go public "over my dead body.". David Sun: moved to U.S. from Taiwan 1977, worked as chief engineer at Alpha Micro. Brought in "professional management" (Tim Koogle in 1995, then Warner Bros. chief Terry Semel in 2001). Founded Ace Beverage 1956 with exclusive rights to distribute Budweiser in parts of Los Angeles. Collects contemporary Chinese and Vietnamese art acquired during visits to offshore factories. Now polishing 3-D digital cinema technology. Now runs oil drilling outfit Chief Operating. Used superstore concepts to attract customers, thicken margins. Went public in March, but stock has been volatile. Part owner of Pebble Beach golf course. Grew up poor in rural Texas; mother, brother died when he was 7. With sister, Barbara Gage (see) inherited hospitality, marketing, food, travel empire from father, Curtis Carlson. Based franchise on Ray Kroc's public December 2004; shares up 260% since. Dropped out of college to flip burgers. Harvard Business School grad became friends with Warren Buffett (see) in 1962. Chief executive for short stint, became full-time investor 1986. Studied French literature at U. of Pennsylvania. Owns stakes in pro basketball's L.A. Lakers, hockey's L.A. Kings. DirecTV Former salesman for Oracle left 1990 after chief Larry Ellison (see) ditched plans to bring Siebel's sales-tracking software to market. Filo runs tech. Saved money, invested in oil, real estate. Became president of Sales: $3 billion. Brother Leonard Lauder (see) took company public 1995; son William now chief executive. New Balance Arch Co. founded in 1906 to correct orthopedic foot problems. Studied finance at Oregon State, led private equity division at Black Rock Financial. Bred hamsters, traded them to other children. Most of net worth now outside Dell. Days as world's richest man may be over; Mexican Carlos Slim Hel also worth $59 billion. With family controls Fidelity Investments, America's largest mutual fund company. Bought stake in 19-store video rental chain in 1977. Joined Army at 18; fought in Italy, France and Germany during World War II. Brusque money manager sold Heine Securities to Now he owns 1.1 million Google shares (to Brin's 31 million) and leads sales and business development. , Corporate lawyer joined father's Tana Oil & Gas 1980; merged production properties with Texaco (now in 1998; lost in bankruptcy after dispute over later acquisition from Fights childhood poverty through George Kaiser Family Foundation; pledged $60 million to redevelop a blighted community alongside a 42-mile stretch of Arkansas River. If you look at the trades section, there's a bunch of transaction for "removing liquidity". Donated $40 million to create the Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. First blockbusters in 1977: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Hires Ph.D.s over M.B.A.s. Restated earnings, cutting 2006 profits $2.2 billion, to $3.7 billion, for 7 years of shenanigans. Has given more than $1.5 billion to charity, including gifts to the United Nations Foundation, Nuclear Threat Initiative, the Turner Foundation. Family shares of BofA now worth $2.6 billion. Unloaded a Jasper Johns, Willem de Kooning. Nearing completion of $1.8 billion Palazzo resort next to nemesis Steve Wynn's (see) Wynn Las Vegas. Married former Miss Universe Porntip Nakhirunkanok in 2002. Greek culture enthusiast supports medical and nutrition research at Tufts U. Manhattan-born Wharton grad joined father's cosmetics and hair care products company 1958. Brought in "professional management" (Tim Koogle in 1995, then Warner Bros. chief Terry Semel in 2001). Today Milstein Properties owns apartment towers from Battery Park City to the Upper East Side, offices in Midtown, numerous undeveloped lots across Manhattan. Marquett Burton embodies the high-value life. Personally owns stakes in Montana's regional railroad; largest tug and barge fleet in British Columbia; Butte copper mine. Early investor, board member of Google has sold more than 3 million shares since 2004 public offering; still owns 1.7 million shares worth $870 million. Found way to Harvard Business School. Opened first Little Caesars pizza joint in 1959 after injury ended career; 40 stores by 1967. Graduated from high school at 16, a doctor by age 23. Institute. Prefers to buy divisions of technology firms. Schwarzman attended Yale with President George W. Bush. Yahoo Footing most of the bill for new $800 million Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Ridiculous compensation: Speedway granted Smith a $1.5 million bonus in part for repaying the millions of dollars in loans he owed the company. Ross & Co. in 2000. Today own, operate Bright House Cable (2.2 million subscribers); also pieces of the Discovery Channel, Learning Channel. Founded Kohlberg & Co. 1987. Recently lost bid to operate New York race tracks. Republican sits on U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science & Technology. Founded pilot training academy FlightSafety International 1951. This story is about someone like you: a human being endeavoring to make tomorrow better than today. ), food (Dairy Queen, See's Candies). Semel quit under fire this year. . Extended port contract with New Orleans through 2008 in July. Also supports entrepreneurship through Dayton business center Aileron, single mothers through Dayton-area program The Glen. Hedge fund guru grew up in Raleigh, N.C.; father worked in real estate. Wealthy developer's son went to Beverly Hills High School, dropped out of UCLA for job in mailroom at William Morris Agency. Herb came aboard 1962. Estimated sales: $7 billion. Duo are equal partners in TPG. Apollo Group Result: iFlop for Apple TV. Upon graduating he joined Teach For America's 2009 Baltimore Corp. Currently, there is a lot of positive discussion and criticism about him. Retractable roof will keep iconic hole design, presumably so God can still watch his favorite team. 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