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8. LARRY PAGE

$67.5 billion (^) © • SELF-MADE SCORE:u
SOURCE: Google
AGE: 47 • RESIDENCE: Palo Alto, CA
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: y

9. SERGEY BRIN
   $65.7 billion^ © • SELF-MADE SCORE:v
   SOURCE: Google
   AGE: 47 • RESIDENCE: Los Altos, CA
   PHILANTHROPY SCORE: y
   When the pair stepped down as president
   (Brin) and CEO (Page) of Google parent
   Alphabet last December, the Google co-
   founders penned an open letter highlight-
   ing their 21-year-old company’s achieve-
   ments (such as Google Maps and YouTube)
   and describing their future roles as proud
   parents, “offering advice and love, but not
   daily nagging!” Both remain board mem-
   bers and controlling shareholders.


10. ALICE WALTON
    $62.3 billion^ © • SELF-MADE SCORE:n
    SOURCE: Walmart
    AGE: 70 • RESIDENCE: Fort Worth, TX
    PHILANTHROPY SCORE: yy


11. JIM WALTON
    $62.1 billion^ © • SELF-MADE SCORE:o
    SOURCE: Walmart
    AGE: 72 • RESIDENCE: Bentonville, AR
    PHILANTHROPY SCORE: y


12. ROB WALTON
    $61.8 billion^ © • SELF-MADE SCORE:q
    SOURCE: Walmart
    AGE: 75 • RESIDENCE: Bentonville, AR
    PHILANTHROPY SCORE: y
    Walmart sales jumped nearly 9% in the
    quarter through April 30, helped by a 74%
    surge in online sales. To meet heightened
    demand during the pandemic, it hired
    400,000 mostly temporary workers. The
    children of founder Sam Walton are its
    biggest individual shareholders; only Rob,
    the former chairman, sits on the board.


13. MACKENZIE SCOTT

$57 billion (^) © • SELF-MADE SCORE:p
SOURCE: Amazon
AGE: 50 • RESIDENCE: Seattle, WA
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: yy
14. MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
$55 billion (^) © • SELF-MADE SCORE:u
SOURCE: Bloomberg LP
AGE: 78 • RESIDENCE: New York, NY
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: yyyy
New York’s former mayor poured more
than $1 billion—a record-shattering sum,
but still less than 2% of his net worth—
into his failed presidential campaign.
Since he dropped out of the race in March,
his Bloomberg Philanthropies has given
some $330 million to fight Covid-19.
A year after finalizing her divorce from Amazon’s Jeff
Bezos, the publicity-shy Scott (below, pre-divorce) made
two big announcements in July: that she had changed
her last name to her middle name, and that she had al-
ready donated nearly $1.7 billion to 116 nonprofits work-
ing on issues such as racial and gender equity, economic
mobility and public health, as a first step toward fulfilling
her promise to give away at least half her fortune. In June,
Scott partnered with Melinda Gates on a $30 million
initiative called the Equality Can’t Wait Challenge.
MACKENZIE
SCOTT
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15. CHARLES KOCH
    $45 billion^ © • SELF-MADE SCORE:r
    SOURCE: Koch Industries
    AGE: 84 • RESIDENCE: Wichita, KS
    PHILANTHROPY SCORE: yy
    Koch has been head of the nation’s larg-
    est private company, the $115 billion (sales)
    Koch Industries, since 1967. Koch Indus-
    tries’ Molex subsidiary has been supply-
    ing parts to build the long-in-development
    Japanese supercomputer Fugaku, which
    finally booted up in April to help with
    Covid-19 research efforts.
    15. JULIA KOCH & FAMILY
    $45 billion^ © • SELF-MADE SCORE:n
    SOURCE: Koch Industries
    AGE: 58 • RESIDENCE: New York, NY
    PHILANTHROPY SCORE: yy
    Once an assistant to fashion designer
    Adolfo, Julia met David Koch on a blind
    date in 1991; they married five years lat-
    er. She inherited his stake in Koch Indus-
    tries upon his death in August 2019 and
    now heads the David H. Koch Foundation,
    which supports medical research, arts
    and education.