10 Michael Bloomberg – 50 Billion
Michael Bloomberg is an American businessman, author, politician, engineer, and philanthropist.
Bloomberg is the founder, owner, and CEO of Bloomberg L.P, which is a global financial service, software, and mass media company. It is notable for its Bloomberg Terminal, which is a computer software system that provides financial data used in the global financial service industry.
Bloomberg began his career at the securities brokerage Salomon Brothers before forming his own company in 1981. Bloomberg has joined The Giving Pledge whereby billionaires pledge to give away at least half of their wealth.
9 Larry Ellison – 58.5 Billion
Larry Ellison is the co-founder, executive chairman and chief of technology officer at Oracle Corporation.
Ellison was born in New York City and grew up in Chicago. He studied at both the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign as well as the University of Chicago without graduating and in 1966 he moved to California.
He was working at Ampex in the early 70’s which led to the formation of what is now known as Oracle. Oracle became a successful database vendor to mid and low-range systems competing with Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server, which made him one of the richest men on the planet.
Ellison has donated up to 1% of his wealth to charity and has signed The Giving Pledge.
8 David Koch – 60 Billion
David Koch is an American born billionaire. He joined his family business in 1970, Koch Industries, which is the second-largest privately held company in the United States.
He then became president of the subsidiary Koch Engineering in 1979 and became a co-owner of Koch Industries alongside his older brother Charles in 1983. Koch has served as an executive vice president until 2018 when he retired. Koch retired this month due to health issues and received the title of Director Emeritus.
Koch is a libertarian and was even a candidate for Vice President of The United States of America in 2980 from the United States Libertarian Party. He and his brother both donate to political advocacy groups and political campaigns, which are pretty much all Republican.
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