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FORBES                                                                          THE LIST

         232. DAVID STEWARD       239. ALLAN GOLDMAN       including Google, Facebook and   UCLA Pritzker Center for Strength-
                                                           Hewlett-Packard, Paul recent-
                                                                                    ening Children & Families.
         $3.4 BILLION Ì SELF-MADE SCORE: )  $3.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: $  ly completed a 70-story mixed-use
         SOURCE: IT PROVIDER      SOURCE: REAL ESTATE      skyscraper in downtown San Fran-
         AGE: 67 RESIDENCE: ST. LOUIS  AGE: 75 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY             239. LYNN
                                                           cisco. The building’s penthouse is
         PHILANTHROPY SCORE:      PHILANTHROPY SCORE:      currently on sale for $42 million.   SCHUSTERMAN
         One of 8 children, Steward milked
         cows and slopped hogs on the family   239. JANE GOLDMAN                    $3.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: !
                                                                                    SOURCE: OIL & GAS, INVESTMENTS
         farm before school every day while                239. ANTHONY PRITZKER    AGE: 79 RESIDENCE: TULSA
         his dad worked as a mechanic, trash   $3.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: $  $3.3 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: #  PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
         collector and janitor to make ends   SOURCE: REAL ESTATE  SOURCE: HOTELS, INVESTMENTS
                                  AGE: 63 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY
         meet. After graduating from Cen-                  AGE: 57 RESIDENCE: LOS ANGELES  When Schusterman sold oil firm
         tral Missouri State University, he   PHILANTHROPY SCORE:   PHILANTHROPY SCORE:   Samson Resources in 2011 for $7.2
         sent out 400 résumés in 3 years be-               Hyatt Hotels heirs Tony and his   billion, she directed $2.3 billion of
         fore landing his “dream job” at Mis-  239. AMY GOLDMAN   brother J.B. (No. 251) own the Pritz-  the windfall to the Charles & Lynn
         souri Pacific Railroad. He cofounded              ker Group, a private equity and ven-  Schusterman Family Foundation,
         IT provider World Wide Technolo-  FOWLER          ture capital firm. In April the group   which is devoted to  Jewish chari-
         gy in 1990. Now he has a 62% stake   $3.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: @  spun out PPC Partners, where Tony   ties, including Birthright  Israel and
         in the $10.4 billion (sales) compa-  SOURCE: REAL ESTATE  is CEO, with the purpose of acquir-  K–12 education.
         ny, which counts Citigroup, Verizon   AGE: 64 RESIDENCE: RHINEBECK, NY  ing middle-market companies. Three
         and the federal government among   PHILANTHROPY SCORE:   months later PPC said it had raised   239. MEG WHITMAN
         its customers. In July the jazz lov-              $1.8 billion for its first fund, mostly
         er donated $1.3 million to the jazz   239. DIANE KEMPER   from wealthy families, and purchased   $3.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ^
                                                                                    SOURCE: EBAY
         studies program at the University                 private label food maker C.H. Guen-  AGE: 62 RESIDENCE: ATHERTON, CA
         of Missouri-St. Louis. His daughter   $3.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: @  ther & Son. Tony and his wife, Jeanne,   PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
         was a producer of the film Manches-  SOURCE: REAL ESTATE  gave $10 million this year for the
                                  AGE: 73 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY
         ter by the Sea.                                                            Whitman’s tenure as CEO of
                                  PHILANTHROPY SCORE:                               Hewlett-Packard Enterprise ended
                                  These 4 siblings inherited a vast real            in February. The following month
         239. DAVID BONDERMAN     estate fortune from their father, Sol             she took the top job at Jeffrey Kat-
         $3.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: &  Goldman (d. 1987), once New York        zenberg’s mobile media startup,
         SOURCE: PRIVATE EQUITY   City’s biggest landlord. Jane and Al-             NewTV, which raised $1 billion in
         AGE: 75                  lan are cochairs of their Solil Man-              August. Whitman, who led eBay
         RESIDENCE: FORT WORTH, TX                                                  from $5.7 million (sales) in 1997 to
                                  agement, which owns more than 400
         PHILANTHROPY SCORE:      properties in the city. The clan has              $8.5 billion in 2008, joined Drop-
         Bonderman’s TPG exited from   endowed the deanship at Yale Law             box’s board in September 2017.
         Chobani in June, 4 years after it   School and funds a clinic there fo-
         rescued the yogurt maker when   cused on family advocacy.                  251. JOHN MIDDLETON
         it needed cash. The private equity
         firm, which he cofounded in 1992,                                          $3.2 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: %
         also led a $1.9 billion deal in April   239. VINCENT MCMAHON               SOURCE: TOBACCO
                                                                                    AGE: 63 RESIDENCE: BRYN MAWR, PA
         to fund Du Xiaoman, the fintech   $3.3 BILLION 3 SELF-MADE SCORE: (
         spinoff of Chinese internet giant   SOURCE: ENTERTAINMENT                  PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
         Baidu, along with other investors   AGE: 73 RESIDENCE: GREENWICH, CT       Best known for owning nearly half
         such as Carlyle. Through his Wild-  PHILANTHROPY SCORE:                    of the Philadelphia Phillies, Mid-
         cat Foundation, Bonderman has   Shares of McMahon’s company                dleton made his fortune selling
         donated tens of millions to support   World Wrestling Entertainment        his family’s storied tobacco busi-
         wildlife conservation.   have nearly tripled in the past year,  239. JOHN ARNOLD   ness, John Middleton Co., to Phil-
                                  putting McMahon back on The   $3.3 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: *  ip Morris parent Altria for $2.9 bil-
                                  Forbes 400 for the first time since   SOURCE: HEDGE FUNDS  lion in 2007. His sister later sued
         239. LEON G.             2002. Its programming is a life-  AGE: 44 RESIDENCE: HOUSTON  him, claiming he cheated her out of
         COOPERMAN                line for cable networks, which are   PHILANTHROPY SCORE:    her inheritance. He objected to the
                                  increasingly reliant on live con-  The Enron gas-trading wunderkind   claims and reached a reported $22
         $3.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: (                                          million settlement.
         SOURCE: HEDGE FUNDS      tent to attract viewers. He grew up   stopped managing other people’s
         AGE: 75 RESIDENCE: SHORT HILLS, NJ  in a trailer park in North Carolina   money in 2012 at age 38, but Ar-
                                  and joined his father’s small wres-  nold is still investing. Last year his
         PHILANTHROPY SCORE:                                                        251. J.B. PRITZKER
                                  tling promotion company in 1972.   Centaurus Renewable Energy sold
         After 27 years, Cooperman is clos-                                         $3.2 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: #
         ing his hedge fund, Omega Advi-  McMahon purchased the business   a collection of solar farms. His in-  SOURCE: HOTELS, INVESTMENTS
         sors, and converting it to a fami-  10 years later, then transformed it   vestments have generated signif-  AGE: 53 RESIDENCE: CHICAGO
         ly office. His exit comes after 2 years   into an international phenomenon,   icant gains: He and his wife, Lau-  PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
         of strong investment results and   with programs broadcast in more   ra, have put $900 million into their   J.B. stepped down from running
         the resolution of an insider trad-  than 180 countries.   foundation in the past 5 years; it   private equity firm Pritzker Group
         ing probe he settled last year, with-             has assets of $2 billion. The foun-  with his brother Anthony (No.
         out admitting or denying the allega-  239. JAY PAUL     dation has made nearly $500 mil-  239) in early 2017 in order to run
         tions. “I don’t want to spend the rest            lion in grants so far to groups seek-  for governor of Illinois. He won the
         of my life chasing the S&P 500,” said   $3.3 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *  ing to address the root cause of so-  Democratic primary in March and
                                  SOURCE: REAL ESTATE
         Cooperman. He’s given at least $200   AGE: 71 RESIDENCE: SAN FRANCISCO   cial problems, including pension   will face incumbent Bruce Rau ner
         million away so far to such recipi-  PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A.  reform, criminal justice reform,   in the November election. Pritz-
         ents as alma maters Columbia Uni-                 reining in drug pricing, and K-12   ker spent $106 million of his own
                                                                                                               BRENT HUMPHREYS
         versity and Hunter College.  Office developer and landlord to   school governance.
                                  Silicon Valley’s biggest tech firms,              funds on his campaign.
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