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Date: 2024-11-22 Page is: DBtxt001.php txt00001733
Wealth, Society and Economy
The Forbes List of World's Wealthiest
The names and wealth of 400 people as listed in Forbes (2010)

America's richest families!
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
This Forbes List of wealthy Americans goes back to 2010. By comparison with 2024 ... the time of this format revision ... the fortunes are quite modest, though enormous compared to fortunes at the beginning of my career in the early 1960s!

The 'change' in the measures raises all sorts of questions about the value of the data and especially anything that involves comparison over time!

I am reminded of work ... basic 'grunt' work ... I did on the preparation of tax returns for some of the wealthiest people in the UK back in the early 1960s ... the measure was 'millions' not 'billions'! This was when I was training with ... articled with ... Cooper Brothers & Co. which has morphed over time into first, Coopers and Lybrand and then PriceWaterhouseCoopers!

I rate my training with Cooper Brothers as about as good as it could be. It was not easy, and I was pushed to the limit ... way beyond the basics. My 'Principal' was the partner in charge of the CB&Co consultancy practice in London ... Brian Maynard ... who gave me one assignment after another that I could not do! Brilliant ... it made me work and learn far faster and much more than I would have if my training time had been 'easy'!

Fast forward some 60+ years and I see that one of the issues that TVM has to address in order to achieve a system of metrics that serves to inform rather than confuse is the role that 'money numbers' play in understanding the performance of the socio-enviro-economic system. Knowing the wealth of these people is interesting, but in itself is not very useful.
Peter Burgess
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Rank Name Net Worth Age Residence Source
1 Bill Gates $59 B 55 Medina, Washington Microsoft
2 Warren Buffett $39 B 81 Omaha, Nebraska Berkshire Hathaway
3 Larry Ellison $33 B 67 Woodside, California Oracle
4= Charles Koch $25 B 75 Wichita, Kansas diversified
4= David Koch $25 B 71 New York, New York diversified
6 Christy Walton $24.5 B 56 Jackson, Wyoming Wal-Mart
7 George Soros $22 B 81 Katonah, New York hedge funds
8 Sheldon Adelson $21.5 B 78 Las Vegas, Nevada Casinos
9 Jim Walton $21.1 B 63 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart
10 Alice Walton $20.9 B 61 Fort Worth, Texas Wal-Mart
11 S. Robson Walton $20.5 B 67 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart
12 Michael Bloomberg $19.5 B 69 New York, New York Bloomberg LP
13 Jeff Bezos $19.1 B 47 Seattle, Washington Amazon.com
14 Mark Zuckerberg $17.5 B 27 Palo Alto, California Facebook
15 Sergey Brin $16.7 B 38 Los Altos, California Google
15 Larry Page $16.7 B 38 Palo Alto, California Google
17 John Paulson $15.5 B 55 New York, New York hedge funds
18 Michael Dell $15 B 46 Austin, Texas Dell
19 Steve Ballmer $13.9 B 55 Hunts Point, Washington Microsoft
20 Forrest Mars $13.8 B 80 Big Horn, Wyoming candy
20 Jacqueline Mars $13.8 B 71 The Plains, Virginia candy
20 John Mars $13.8 B 75 Jackson, Wyoming candy, pet food
23 Paul Allen $13.2 B 58 Mercer Island, Washington Microsoft, investments
24 Phil Knight $13.1 B 73 Hillsboro, Oregon Nike
25 Carl Icahn $13 B 75 New York, New York leveraged buyouts
26 Donald Bren $12 B 79 Newport Beach, California real estate
26 Anne Cox Chambers $12 B 91 Atlanta, Georgia media
26 Ronald Perelman $12 B 68 New York, New York leveraged buyouts
29 Abigail Johnson $11.7 B 49 Milton, Massachusetts Fidelity
30 James Simons $10.6 B 73 East Setauket, New York hedge funds
31 George Kaiser $10 B 69 Tulsa, Oklahoma oil & gas, banking
32 Len Blavatnik $9.5 B 54 London, N/A diversified
33 Harold Simmons $9.3 B 80 Dallas, Texas investments
34 Jack Taylor $9 B 89 St. Louis, Missouri Enterprise Rent-A-Car
35 Steve Cohen $8.3 B 55 Greenwich, Connecticut hedge funds
36 Harold Hamm $7.5 B 65 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma oil & natural gas
37 Rupert Murdoch $7.4 B 80 New York, New York News Corp
38 James Goodnight $7.1 B 68 Cary, North Carolina SAS Institute
39 Philip Anschutz $7 B 71 Denver, Colorado investments
39 Andrew Beal $7 B 58 Dallas, Texas banks, real estate
39 Steve Jobs $7 B 56 Palo Alto, California Apple, Pixar
39 Patrick Soon-Shiong $7 B 59 Los Angeles, California generic drugs
43 Samuel Newhouse $6.6 B 83 New York, New York Conde Nast
44 Ray Dalio $6.5 B 62 Greenwich, Connecticut hedge funds
44 Edward Johnson $6.5 B 81 Boston, Massachusetts Fidelity
46 Charles Ergen $6.4 B 58 Denver, Colorado EchoStar
46 Richard Kinder $6.4 B 66 Houston, Texas pipelines
48 Eli Broad $6.3 B 78 Los Angeles, California investments
48 Leonard Lauder $6.3 B 78 New York, New York Estee Lauder
50 Pierre Omidyar $6.2 B 44 Honolulu, Hawaii Ebay
50 Eric Schmidt $6.2 B 56 Atherton, California Google
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Status November 5th, 2024: The high net-worth individuals ranked 51 to 400 are included in this file but have not yet been formatted for presentation



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