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FORBES                                                                          THE LIST

                                                           7.5 million square feet of commercial   by Square, but he sold $33 million
                                                           space, with tenants like Netflix and   of Square stock in August and ear-
                                                           Apple. He donated more than $400   ly September.
                                                           million to his family’s philanthrop-
                                                           ic foundation and other charities. In
                                                           2017 he pledged $100 million to San-  85. WHITNEY
                                                           ta Clara University, his alma mater,   MACMILLAN
                                                           for a new center dedicated to STEM   $6.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: @
                                                            education.              SOURCE: CARGILL
                                                                                    AGE: 89 RESIDENCE: MINNEAPOLIS
                                                           83. ANN                  PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
                                                           WALTON-KROENKE           MacMillan was the last member
                                                                                    of the Cargill-MacMillan family to
                                                           $6.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: !  serve as CEO of Cargill, America’s
                                                           SOURCE: WALMART          largest private company. He led the
                                                           AGE: 69 RESIDENCE: COLUMBIA, MO
                                                                                    agri-giant for 19 years before step-
                                                           PHILANTHROPY SCORE:      ping down in 1995.
                                                           The daughter of Bud Walton, who
                                                           helped his brother Sam build
                                                           Walmart into a retail giant, she is   85. DAVID SHAW
                                                           married to fellow Forbes 400 mem-  $6.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
                                                           ber Stan Kroenke (No. 58).   SOURCE: HEDGE FUNDS
                                                                                    AGE: 67 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY
                                                                                    PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
                                                           84. MARC BENIOFF
           88. DENNIS WASHINGTON                                                    The quantitative hedge fund pioneer
                                                           $6.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *  started his firm far from Wall Street,
           $6.2 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: )               SOURCE: BUSINESS SOFTWARE  in a small space above a New York
           SOURCE: CONSTRUCTION, MINING                    AGE: 54 RESIDENCE: SAN FRANCISCO  bookstore where employees tripped
           AGE: 84 RESIDENCE: MISSOULA, MT
                                                           PHILANTHROPY SCORE:      over exposed extension cords. D.E.
           PHILANTHROPY SCORE:                             In May, Salesforce, the cloud com-  Shaw, which started with $28 mil-
           His Washington Companies bought Dominion Diamond Corp. in Can-  puting software firm Benioff co-  lion, now manages over $51 bil-
           ada for $1.2 billion in November 2017. He already owns Seaspan ULC,   founded in 1999, celebrated the   lion. Shaw handed over the day-to-
           one of the largest tug and barge operators on Canada’s West Coast. In the   opening of a 1,070-foot office tow-  day management of his firm more
           U.S., Montana’s richest resident owns a copper mine and regional railroad,   er in downtown San Francisco that   than 15 years ago; he now spends
           among other businesses. He and his wife, Phyllis, a former teacher, have   bears its name, though it’s actual-  his time working on computational
           personally put $840 million into their foundation, which in turn has doled   ly co-owned by Mort Zuckerman’s   biochemistry research and teaching
           out nearly $300 million to more than 1,000 organizations, many in his   (No. 280) Boston Properties and   at Columbia University.
           home state of Montana and most in support of children’s education.   Houston-based developer Hines.
                                                           The prominence of the build-
                                                           ing mirrors the rise of the compa-  88. DANNINE AVARA
         79. JENSEN HUANG         in 2015. He cofounded the company   ny, whose stock is up nearly 60%   $6.2 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: !
                                  in 1997 and still serves as its execu-
         $6.6 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *  tive chairman.  in the past 12 months. Benioff and   SOURCE: PIPELINES
                                                                                    AGE: 54 RESIDENCE: HOUSTON
         SOURCE: SEMICONDUCTORS                            his wife, Lynne, have committed
         AGE: 55 RESIDENCE: LOS ALTOS, CA                  more than $500 million to char-  PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
                                  79. ROBERT KRAFT         itable causes, including gifts and
         PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
         His graphic-chip maker  Nvidia re-  $6.6 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *  pledges of more than $325 million   88. SCOTT DUNCAN
         cently launched Pegasus, an AI com-  SOURCE: NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS  to UCSF for its children’s hospi-  $6.2 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: !
         puter that enables fully autonomous   AGE: 77 RESIDENCE: BROOKLINE, MA  tals and research. In September the   SOURCE: PIPELINES
         driving, and this fall it is set to re-  PHILANTHROPY SCORE:   couple agreed to buy Time maga-  AGE: 35 RESIDENCE: HOUSTON
         lease the fastest video-gaming card   In January, the Kraft Center for Com-  zine from Meredith Corp. for $190   PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
         on the market. Nvidia’s stock has   munity Health launched a new pro-  million.
         jumped over 50% in the past year   gram that sends a van to distribute
         as sales have skyrocketed. Huang   clean syringes in Boston neighbor-  85. JACK DORSEY   88. MILANE FRANTZ
         cofounded Nvidia in 1993 with   hoods with drug-overdose problems;         $6.2 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: !
         $40,000 and took it public 6 years   it also offers prescriptions to help with   $6.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *  SOURCE: PIPELINES
                                                           SOURCE: TWITTER, SQUARE
         later. He still calls the shots as CEO.   drug cravings and treat overdoses.   AGE: 41 RESIDENCE: SAN FRANCISCO  AGE: 49 RESIDENCE: HOUSTON
                                  Kraft made his fortune in paper and   PHILANTHROPY SCORE:   PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
         79. RICHARD KINDER       packaging and bought the New Eng-  The juggling act continues for
                                  land Patriots for $172 million in 1994.
         $6.6 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: *  It’s worth $3.8 billion today.   Dorsey, who has served as CEO   88. RANDA WILLIAMS
         SOURCE: PIPELINES                                 of both payments firm Square and   $6.2 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: #
         AGE: 74 RESIDENCE: HOUSTON                        Twitter since 2015. While Square is   SOURCE: PIPELINES
                                  79. JOHN A. SOBRATO      still unprofitable, its stock surged   AGE: 57 RESIDENCE: HOUSTON
         PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
         In April, Kinder and his wife, Nan-  $6.6 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: &  213% in the past year, adding $3.8   PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
         cy, donated $70 million for the res-  SOURCE: REAL ESTATE  billion to Dorsey’s fortune. Twitter   Williams is the only one of 4 chil-
         toration and redesign of Memorial   AGE: 79 RESIDENCE: ATHERTON, CA  too was up three quarters. All that   dren of Dan Duncan, the cofound-
         Park in Houston, a large urban park   PHILANTHROPY SCORE:   more than makes up for his lack   er of pipeline giant Enterprise Prod-
         that will include about 30 miles of   His real estate behemoth Sobra-  of a traditional paycheck. In 2017   ucts Partners, to sit on its board; the
         trails. Kinder stepped down as CEO   to Organization owns 6,700 apart-  he declined all compensation from   siblings inherited a $10 billion stake
                                                                                                              KAMIL BIALOUS
         of gas pipeline giant Kinder Morgan   ment units along the West Coast and   Twitter and was paid a mere $2.75   after Duncan’s death in 2010.


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