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ogy company GreenSky public in 344. DAVID GOTTESMAN
May, selling more than $500 mil-
lion worth of shares at the time. $2.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
The stock has slid 17% from its SOURCE: INVESTMENTS
AGE: 92 RESIDENCE: RYE, NY
IPO price. Zalik came to the U.S.
from Israel at age 4, when his fa- PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
ther, a mathematics professor, A meeting with Warren Buf-
got a job at the University of fett (No. 3) led “Sandy” Gottes-
Rhode Island. He started the man to make an early bet on Berk-
company, which facilitates home shire Hathaway, one that has paid
improvement loans via a mobile off by lifting him into the billion-
app, in 2006. aire ranks. But his devotion has al-
ways been to his own investment
firm, First Manhattan, which he
344. ED BASS cofounded in 1964 and in which
$2.4 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: $ he remains involved. He is partly
SOURCE: OIL, INVESTMENTS. funding the $200 million National
AGE: 73 Library of Israel project in Jerusa-
RESIDENCE: FORT WORTH, TX
lem, slated to open in 2021.
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
Bass had already given more
than $100 million to Yale be- 344. BRAD KELLEY
fore this summer’s announcement $2.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: (
344. NORMAN BRAMAN of a $160 million gift to reno- SOURCE: TOBACCO
$2.4 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: ( vate the university’s Peabody Mu- AGE: 61 RESIDENCE: FRANKLIN, TN
SOURCE: CAR DEALERSHIPS seum. Back home in Fort Worth PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A.
AGE: 86 RESIDENCE: MIAMI he’s raising more than $300 mil- The Kentucky-born Kelley sold
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: lion in private funds for the new his discount cigarette firm Com-
The owner of one of Florida’s largest car dealerships—Braman Motor- indoor sports venue Dickies Are- monwealth Brands for $1 billion in
cars, which generates nearly $2 billion in annual revenue—has been a na. Bass also chairs the Sid Rich- 2001 and has since put a lot of that
force in Miami’s art scene, bringing Art Basel to the city in 2002. He and ardson Foundation (started by his money into land. With 1.5 million
his wife also fully funded the construction of Miami’s Institute of Con- uncle), with assets of more than acres to his name, he is one of the
temporary Art, an admission-free museum that opened late last year. $500 million. largest landowners in the U.S. The
farmer’s son also owns travel guide
328. ALAN TREFLER Asian Art Museum, the largest gift in 344. CHUCK publisher Lonely Planet.
the museum’s history.
$2.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * BUNDRANT 344. DANIEL PRITZKER
SOURCE: SOFTWARE $2.4 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: *
AGE: 62 RESIDENCE: BROOKLINE, MA 328. DENISE YORK SOURCE: FISHING $2.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: !
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: AGE: 76 RESIDENCE: SEATTLE SOURCE: HOTELS, INVESTMENTS
$2.5 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: # AGE: 59
The CEO of $840 million (revenue) SOURCE: SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS PHILANTHROPY SCORE: RESIDENCE: MARIN COUNTY, CA
enterprise software firm Pegasys- AGE: 68 He chairs $2.6 billion (est. reve- PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
RESIDENCE: YOUNGSTOWN, OH
tems, which develops customer rela- nues) firm Trident Seafoods, a sell- A filmmaker and musician, Pritz-
tionship management and business PHILANTHROPY SCORE: er of wild-caught salmon, cod and ker sold Jerry Garcia’s Wolf guitar
process management software, has As CEO of the San Francisco 49ers, pollock to such retailers as Costco, for $1.6 million in May 2017, with
been transitioning his company to York’s son Jed has been outspoken in Walmart and Safeway and chains proceeds going to the Southern
the cloud. Revenues from cloud con- his support of NFL players’ right to like Long John Silver’s and McDon- Poverty Law Center.
tracts were up 20% to $215 million protest. He and the team have sup- ald’s. Its fishing and processing op-
in 2017. Trefler started the Cam- ported their former quarterback Col in erations span from Germany to Ja-
bridge, Massachusetts, company in Kaepernick, who opted out of his con- pan. His son Joe runs the firm as 344. ALEXANDER SPANOS
1983 at age 27. An advocate for ed- tract, donating $1 million to causes CEO. $2.4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: (
ucation, he and his wife established he has been highlighting. Denise’s fa- SOURCE: REAL ESTATE, LOS ANGELES
the Trefler Foundation in 1996 to ther, Edward DeBartolo Sr., bought CHARGERS
improve Boston public schools. the 49ers for $13 million in 1977. Her 344. KENNETH FELD AGE: 95 RESIDENCE: STOCKTON, CA
brother Edward Jr. (No. 280) ran it for $2.4 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: % PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
23 years, during which time the 49ers SOURCE: LIVE ENTERTAINMENT Spanos, owner of the NFL’s Los
328. JERRY YANG won 5 Super Bowls. After Edward Jr. AGE: 70 Angeles Chargers, handed the
RESIDENCE: SARASOTA, FL
$2.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ) was found guilty of bribery, he gave up reins to his eldest son, Dean, in
SOURCE: YAHOO the team to his sister, who in turn gave PHILANTHROPY SCORE: 1994. Dean’s sons took over in 2015
AGE: 49 him the family’s shopping malls. The The heir to Ringling Bros. circus
RESIDENCE: LOS ALTOS HILLS, CA and 2 years later championed the
team, which Jed has run since 2010, is took down the big top in 2017 fol- team’s move to Los Angeles af-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: now worth $3.05 billion. lowing years of falling ticket sales. ter more than 5 decades in San Di-
Since stepping down from the board But the shows go on: His Feld En- ego. Spanos started off at his fa-
of Yahoo in 2012, the Yahoo cofound- tertainment has brought popu- ther’s bakery. In 1951 he start-
er has invested in over 100 startups 328. DAVID ZALIK lar children’s franchises like Dis- ed his own catering company. He
through his AME Cloud Ventures $2.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * ney on Ice’s Frozen and a live ver- then put the profits into real es-
fund. Yang also serves on the board SOURCE: FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY sion of DreamWorks’ Trolls to the tate, founding A.G. Spanos Com-
of directors of Workday, Alibaba and AGE: 44 RESIDENCE: ATLANTA stage and puts on a variety of oth- panies, which continues to develop
Lenovo. Last year Yang and his wife PHILANTHROPY SCORE: er events such as monster truck and master-planned communities and TINA PAUL/CAMERA PRESS/REDUX
pledged $25 million to San Francisco’s Zalik took his financial technol- motorcycle races. apartments.

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