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280. THOMAS SIEBEL ers, Donald (d. 2009) and Do-
ris Fisher, he is carrying on their
$2.9 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: * efforts to improve K-12 educa-
SOURCE: BUSINESS SOFTWARE tion. He is on the board of the Sili-
AGE: 65 RESIDENCE: WOODSIDE, CA
con Schools Fund, the KIPP Foun-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: dation (cofounded by his parents
Siebel, a onetime disciple of Larry El- in 2000) and the Charter School
lison (No. 5), raised $106 million in Growth Fund. He is also the owner
new funding in January for his Inter- of the Oakland A’s.
net of Things startup, C3 IoT, giving
the company a $1.5 billion valuation.
Siebel left Oracle to start software 298. RICHARD PEERY
firm Siebel Systems in 1990, then sold $2.8 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
it to his former employer 16 years lat- SOURCE: REAL ESTATE
er for $5.8 billion in stock and cash. AGE: 80 RESIDENCE: PALO ALTO, CA
In 2016 he donated $25 million to his PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
alma mater, the University of Illinois Peery, who started buying Silicon
at Urbana-Champaign, to build an Valley farmland with John Arrilla-
innovation-focused design center to ga (No. 328) in the 1960s and counts
bear his name. Google and Facebook as tenants, has
given about $500 million to charita-
280. CHARLES SIMONYI ble foundations and donor-advised
funds in his lifetime. His son Dave
$2.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ^ runs the Peery Foundation, whose
SOURCE: MICROSOFT grantees include nonprofits such as
AGE: 70 RESIDENCE: MEDINA, WA
298. OPRAH WINFREY 10 Books a Home and Playworks in
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: East Palo Alto, California.
The Hungarian-born computer sci- $2.8 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: )
SOURCE: TV SHOWS
entist is the architect behind pop- AGE: 64 RESIDENCE: MONTECITO, CA
ular Microsoft software such as PHILANTHROPY SCORE: 302. CHASE COLEMAN
Word and Excel. He joined the firm $2.7 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: &
in 1981 as employee No. 40 and The talk show host turned businesswoman sold nearly a quarter of her TV SOURCE: HEDGE FUNDS
stayed for 2 decades. Simonyi, who network OWN to Discovery Communications for $70 million at the end AGE: 43 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY
has been to the International Space of 2017 and unloaded one fourth of her 10% stake in Weight Watchers in PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
Station twice as a tourist, supports March. In June she signed a deal with Apple to create original program- Coleman started out as a hedge
arts and science initiatives, includ- ming for the tech giant. She also continues to expand Mealtime Stories, her fund investor, but his Tiger Glob-
ing a $5 million gift to the Univer- food joint venture with Kraft Heinz. Ten percent of the profits from the al Management has evolved into a
sity of Washington for a computer partnership will be donated to the fight against hunger. She has given away broader investment firm with $26
science building in 2017. nearly $425 million, including over $100 million to the Oprah Winfrey billion under management, includ-
Leadership Academy for Girls, a school in South Africa.
ing a major venture capital arm.
280. GLEN TAYLOR One of Coleman’s investments, a
ran the business from 1999 to 2010, 298. GAYLE BENSON position in Flipkart, turned into a
$2.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ( multibillion-dollar windfall for Ti-
SOURCE: PRINTING helping orchestrate its sale to Mars $2.8 BILLION Ì SELF-MADE SCORE: ! ger Global’s venture vehicles after
AGE: 77 RESIDENCE: MANKATO, MN for $23 billion in 2008. He sits on the SOURCE: SPORTS TEAMS
board of the Everglades Foundation. AGE: 71 RESIDENCE: NEW ORLEANS Walmart bought a majority stake
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: in the Indian online retailer in Au-
His Minnesota Timberwolves PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. gust. Prior to starting Tiger Glob-
made it to the NBA playoffs for the 280. MORTIMER The third wife of Tom Benson in- al, Coleman worked for hedge fund
first time in 14 years before losing ZUCKERMAN herited the New Orleans Saints and legend Julian Robertson.
in the first round. He made his for- the New Orleans Pelicans teams af-
tune through printing company $2.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * ter Tom died in March at age 90. The
Taylor Corp., which brings in more SOURCE: REAL ESTATE, MEDIA NoLa native became the owner of 302. DORIS FISHER
AGE: 81 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY
than $2 billion in revenue. He has both teams despite a lawsuit in which $2.7 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: &
invested nearly $80 million in de- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: Tom’s daughter Renee (from a previ- SOURCE: GAP
vices for the hearing impaired. Though he sold New York’s Dai- ous marriage) sued her father in 2015 AGE: 87 RESIDENCE: SAN FRANCISCO
ly News in 2017, Zuckerman still over control of the assets. The case PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
owns U.S. News & World Report, was dismissed. Family members con- Cofounder of apparel retailer The
280. WILLIAM a digital-only publication. In 2012 tinued to sue until early 2017, when Gap, in 2000 Fisher helped start the
WRIGLEY JR. he pledged $200 million to en- both parties reached confidential set- KIPP Foundation, which supports
dow the Zuckerman Institute at tlements. Under her ownership, New a network of public charter schools
$2.9 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: #
SOURCE: CHEWING GUM Columbia University, focused on Orleans won the bid to host Super in the U.S., initially committing $15
AGE: 54 the mind and the brain. Zucker- Bowl LVIII in 2024, the 11th time the million to subsidize the schools.
RESIDENCE: NORTH PALM BEACH, FL man cofounded real estate devel- city will play host. The Doris & Donald Fisher Fund
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. oper Boston Properties in 1970. has granted more than $60 million
The chewing gum heir, known as He stepped down as chairman in 298. JOHN FISHER to the KIPP Foundation since its
Beau, got into the cannabis busi- May 2016 after more than 4 de- founding. She is also the cofounder
ness in August, leading a $65 million cades of running the REIT. Bos- $2.8 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: @ of The Gap Foundation, which gives
round for medical marijuana start- ton Properties is a co-owner of San SOURCE: GAP grants to women in the develop-
AGE: 57 RESIDENCE: SAN FRANCISCO
up Surterra Wellness, of which he Francisco’s new Salesforce Tow- ing world and underserved youth.
is now chairman. His great-grand- er, the tallest office building on the PHILANTHROPY SCORE: Doris and her husband, Donald (d. KEITH MAYHEW/NEWSCOM
father started Wrigley in 1891. He West Coast. The youngest son of Gap’s found- 2009), founded The Gap in 1969.

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