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316. ANITA ZUCKER conservationists, they have cham- 328. TIMOTHY BOYLE ic and Cleveland Clinic, to col-
lect clinical and molecular data.
pioned the cause of endangered
$2.6 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: # rhinos and donated $30 million to $2.5 BILLION 3 SELF-MADE SCORE: % Lefkofksy is also a founding inves-
SOURCE: CHEMICALS the Fort Worth Zoo. His fortune SOURCE: COLUMBIA SPORTSWEAR tor of big-data unicorn Uptake. He
AGE: 66 AGE: 69 RESIDENCE: PORTLAND, OR
RESIDENCE: CHARLESTON, SC traces back to his great-uncle Sid made his initial fortune from the
Richardson, an oil tycoon. PHILANTHROPY SCORE: daily-deals site Groupon, which he
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The longtime CEO of Colum- cofounded in 2008.
She was an elementary school bia Sportswear, Boyle also became
teacher for more than 10 years be- 328. GEORGE BISHOP president in 2017 after giving that
fore becoming CEO of InterTech $2.5 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: & role up for 2 years. The stock is up 328. C. DEAN
Group, the manufacturing con- SOURCE: OIL & GAS 57% in the past 12 months, thanks METROPOULOS
glomerate founded by her late hus- AGE: 81 in part to growing sales in China
band, Jerry. Zucker is part owner of RESIDENCE: THE WOODLANDS, TX and Japan. $2.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
the South Carolina Stingrays, a mi- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: SOURCE: FOOD & BEVERAGE
AGE: 72 RESIDENCE: PALM BEACH, FL
nor league hockey team. At the height of the fracking boom
in 2014, Bishop’s GeoSouthern En- 328. JOSEPH GRENDYS PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A.
The man credited with reviving
328. JOHN ARRILLAGA ergy sold its fields in the Eagle $2.5 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: & such food brands as Bumble Bee
Ford shale to Devon Energy for $6
SOURCE: POULTRY PROCESSING
$2.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ( billion, sharing the payday with AGE: 57 RESIDENCE: CHICAGO tuna, Pabst Blue Ribbon and most
SOURCE: REAL ESTATE the Blackstone Group. In 2015 he PHILANTHROPY SCORE: recently Twinkies paid $17 mil-
AGE: 81 lion in June for New England Con-
RESIDENCE: PORTOLA VALLEY, CA redeployed some capital into the His Koch (pronounced Cook)
Haynesville shale of Louisiana. Foods slaughters, processes and fectionery, maker of Necco Wafers,
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: only to sell it weeks later reportedly
He was an owner of River Ridge sells more than $3 billion of poul-
Arrillaga and his business part- Golf Club west of Houston, which try a year under its own brands because of sanitation issues.
ner Richard Peery (No. 298) start- flooded in Hurricane Harvey last and private labels to customers like
ed in Silicon Valley real estate in year, then closed for good. restaurant chain Applebee’s. This
the 1960s, ultimately building of- past summer it donated more than 328. JOHN PRITZKER
fice parks now occupied by such 20,000 pounds of chicken to sup- $2.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: #
tenants as Facebook and Tesla. Ar- port the Carr Fire relief efforts in SOURCE: HOTELS, INVESTMENTS
rillaga attended Stanford on a bas- northern California. Grendys start- AGE: 65
RESIDENCE: SAN FRANCISCO
ketball scholarship and worked 6 ed working for Koch in 1984 when
jobs to cover his living expenses. it was a one-room chicken debon- PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
He has since donated heavily to his ing operation; he bought out his An heir to the Hyatt Hotel for-
alma mater, with $100 million an- former boss in 1992. tune, Pritzker co-chairs Two
nounced in 2006 and another $151 Roads Hospitality, which man-
million in 2013. ages some 90 hotels in 8 coun-
328. W. HERBERT HUNT tries under brands such as Joie de
Vivre and Thompson. Via his Ge-
328. BILL AUSTIN $2.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: $ olo Capital he owns Carmel Val-
SOURCE: OIL
$2.5 BILLION Ì SELF-MADE SCORE: ( AGE: 89 RESIDENCE: DALLAS ley Ranch and Ventana Big Sur in
SOURCE: HEARING AIDS California. A photography buff, he
AGE: 76 PHILANTHROPY SCORE: pledged $25 million to SFMOMA
RESIDENCE: BROWNSVILLE, TX With his brother Bunker, Hunt for the Pritzker Center for Pho-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: tried and failed to corner the world tography, opened in 2016.
Forty-eight years after he bought silver market in the 1970s, building
a tiny hearing aid parts lab, Aus- up a hoard of 195 million ounces
tin debuts on The Forbes 400. His before the market cratered. He re- 328. PETER THIEL
Starkey Hearing Technologies is the mains in the oil business, the first $2.5 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: *
largest hearing aid manufacturer in 328. BOB PARSONS source of his wealth, with oilfields SOURCE: FACEBOOK, PALANTIR
the U.S. But it’s been a tumultuous $2.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ) in the Bakken of North Dakota and AGE: 51 RESIDENCE: LOS ANGELES
climb. In 2015 Austin, who is CEO, SOURCE: WEB HOSTING a refinery complex in Louisiana. In PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
fired the top ranks of his executive AGE: 67 2012 he sold some oilfields to Hal- Silicon Valley is “a one-party state,”
RESIDENCE: SCOTTSDALE, AZ
leadership team, unleashing a series cón Resources for $1.5 billion. Thiel told a group of high school-
of events that most recently result- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: ers in July, which is perhaps why
ed in the former company president The colorful founder of Go Daddy 328. ERIC LEFKOFSKY the libertarian investor moved
being found guilty of federal fraud unloaded his remaining shares in from San Francisco to Los Ange-
charges. Austin spends much of his the Web-hosting firm over the past $2.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * les earlier this year. He has been
time traveling to distribute hearing year, pocketing nearly $1 billion. He SOURCE: GROUPON one of technology’s few conser-
AGE: 49 RESIDENCE: GLENCOE, IL
aids in developing countries for the had already sold the majority of the vative voices, serving as a dele-
Starkey Hearing Foundation. company to private equity inves- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: gate for Donald Trump (No. 259)
tors in 2011. Since the initial sale, Lefkofsky has created yet anoth- and on the president’s transition
he’s bought 2.6 million square feet of er unicorn. Tempus, a startup that team. He cofounded PayPal, invest-
328. LEE BASS commercial property in Arizona. He uses data to improve cancer treat- ed in Facebook and cofounded da-
$2.5 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: $ also owns an ad agency, a golf club ment, announced it had raised $110 ta-mining unicorn Palantir, the lat-
SOURCE: OIL, INVESTMENTS manufacturer and a couple of Har- million in August at a valuation of ter of which is his main source of
AGE: 62 ley-Davidson dealerships. A Viet- about $2 billion from investors like
RESIDENCE: FORT WORTH, TX wealth. He has sold most of his
nam vet, Parsons and his wife, Renee, Steve Case’s Revolution Growth. He Facebook shares but still sits on the
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have given away $162 million in the founded Tempus in 2015 after his company’s board. Thiel is known
He and wife, Ramona, own the past 7 years, mostly to help critical- wife was diagnosed with breast can- for his $100,000 Thiel Fellowship
El Coyote and La Paloma ranch- ly wounded veterans and people liv- cer. The company is working with grants, which go to young entre-
es deep in south Texas, where they ing in poverty. some 250 hospital systems around preneurs who skip or drop out of
TIM PANNELL
raise herds of longhorn cattle. Avid the U.S., including the Mayo Clin- college to work on a startup.
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