Right after completing his graduation in 1974, Larry married his high-school sweetheart Lori. In 1974, he earned a BA in Political Science from UCLA and then earned an MBA in Real Estate at the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management in 1976. His mother was an English professor while his father owned a shoe store. Larry Fink was born on November 2, 1952, in Los Angeles, California, to Lila and Frederick Fink. Check out some interesting details about Larry Fink’s net worth, salary, professional career, personal life, etc. Currently, the company is worth hundreds of billions of dollars and Larry himself has also become a billionaire owing to the success of the company. He also serves as the CEO and chairman of the board, chairman of the executive and leadership committees, and other important positions at the company. The chairman of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins holds big stakes in high-flying tech giants like Amazon and Google-parent Alphabet, where he serves on the board.Larry Fink is the founder of the world’s largest investment management company BlackRock along with seven other partners. John Doerr NET WORTH: $10.5 billion (+$3 billion, +40%) Quarantine essential Netflix, which Hastings cofounded and leads as co-CEO, has been cashing in on a world at home, with hits like Tiger King and Extraction. Reed Hastings NET WORTH: $5 billion (+$1.5 billion, +43%) In addition to providing telehealth and remote monitoring software to help with the Covid crisis, her software giant Epic supports the medical records of over 250 million patients and is used by top medical centers such as Johns Hopkins and Mayo Clinic. Judy Faulkner NET WORTH: $5.5 billion (+$1.7 billion, +45%) Shares of Pegasystems, the software company he started in 1983, which focuses on streamlining business and enhancing customer engagement, are up 42% since last year. His investment firm Tiger Global Management is betting big on tech and stay-at-home friendly stocks, which have been roaring through the pandemic.Īlan Trefler NET WORTH: $4.1 billion (+$1.3 billion, +46%) With the quarantining world turning to online shopping, Amazon shares climbed by 64% over the past year.Ĭhase Coleman NET WORTH: $6.9 billion (+$2.4 billion, +53%) Michael Prince for Forbes Jeff Bezos NET WORTH: $179 billion (+$65 billion, +57%)Īmerica’s richest person had a great year, despite some bad headlines - including coronavirus-related protests by Amazon workers and a big-tech antitrust investigation by Congress. Here are the 15 biggest gainers, measured by percentage of net worth, on the 2020 Forbes 400 list: Data are as of July 24, 2020 Faulkner founded Epic in a basement in 1979 and serves as CEO. The $3.2 billion (2019 sales) company is working to identify labs that could help with testing and distributing protective equipment in Wisconsin, in addition to giving away its telehealth and remote monitoring software. Faulkner, meanwhile, is up 45% as her Wisconsin-based firm faced the Covid-19 Pandemic head-on. She has pledged to eventually give away at least half her fortune. Thanks to the continued rise of Amazon stock, Scott is 58% richer this year - despite giving nearly $1.7 billion to 116 nonprofits. Two women secured a spot among the year’s big gainers: MacKenzie Scott, ex-wife of world’s richest person Jeff Bezos, and Judy Faulkner, founder of Epic, America's leading medical-record software provider. Garcia II, Carvana’s largest shareholder, is worth $9.6 billion his son is worth $4.2 billion. Shares are up more than 1,200% since then, including 77% over the past year - adding billions to the Garcias’ fortunes. He later spun out the firm and took it public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2017. The younger Garcia founded Carvana, an online platform for selling used cars and making auto loans, as a subsidiary of Drivetime. Garcia II is the mogul behind Drivetime, one of the nation’s largest used car dealers, but he owes his spot on the top gainers list to his son, Garcia III. Father-son duo Ernest Garcia II and Ernest Garcia III round out the top 5 biggest gainers in percentage terms.
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