Vanity Fair UK - 11.2019

THE

MOGULS

Titans, empire builders, and wannabe monopolists

disrupting the world on a mass scale

1

JEFF BEZOS

Amazon founder, media baron,

moon colonizer AGE: 55

NET WORTH: $100 billion+

The world’s richest man may

be having a midlife crisis,

but his e-commerce empire shows

no signs of slowing. Amazon

made $11.2 billion in prot last

year and paid $0 in federal

taxes. How’s that for a dick pic?

2

BOB IGER

Disney CEO AGE: 68

LAST YEAR’S SALARY:

$65.7 million

Not content with Marvel

and Lucaslm, Iger dropped

$71.3 billion to acquire

Fox’s lm and television assets

in a megadeal that will

allow Disney to rival Net‰ix

when it rolls out its own

streaming platform, Disney+.

3

MASAYOSHI SON

SoftBank founder AGE: 62

NET WORTH: $21.3 billion

If there’s a bubble in Silicon Valley,

blame Son, whose landmark

Vision Fund has injected about

$70 billion into the tech industry

since 2016. His investment

strategy? “I have only one belief,”

he says: an A.I. “singularity.”

4

RANDALL STEPHENSON

Texan, CEO of AT&T, former

Boy Scout AGE: 59

With its $85 billion Time Warner

acquisition, Ma Bell is no

longer just a bunch of dumb

pipes. But winning an antitrust

battle with Trump was

just the beginning of a larger

war with Iger, Reed

Hastings, and Paul Singer.

5

MARK ZUCKERBERG &

SHERYL SANDBERG

CEO and COO of Facebook

AGES: 35, 50 COMBINED NET

WORTH: $71 billion

After years of scandals,

Zuckerberg and Sandberg are

trying to move forward with

a global cryptocurrency called

Libra and plans to conjoin

…

Jeff

Bezos

One of the best traders of

all time until a run-in with the

SEC. Now back to managing

outside money for a hefty fee.

STEVE

COHEN

AGE: 63

THE OLD NEW ESTABLISHMENT

Big men on campus (yes, they are all men) who are

still masters of their domains

Murdoch clan paterfamilias,

chairman of Fox Corporation.

Sold half his empire to

Disney for $71.3 billion.

RUPERT

MURDOCH

AGE: 88

CEO of Apple. Still flirting with

a market cap of $1 trillion while

focusing on recurring revenues.

Slow and steady goes the ship.

TIM

COOK

AGE: 58

Billionaire Blackrock chief with

more than $6 trillion under

management. Recently opened

an office in Saudi Arabia.

LARRY

FINK

AGE: 66

The Mad Dog is now the Big

Dog. Said in January 2018 that

he won’t retire from JPMorgan

for at least “another five years.”

JAMIE

DIMON

AGE: 63

The Discovery boss was the

highest-paid executive in

the country last year, with a

package worth $129 million.

DAVID

ZASLAV

AGE: 59

O.G. television mega-producer,

career maker, and Cannes

Lions Entertainment Person

of the Year.

LORNE

MICHAELS

AGE: 74

The hedge fund titan turned

self-help guru is somehow even

more omnipresent since

initiating his succession plan.

RAY

DALIO

AGE: 70

Mega-gallerist, Zwirner rival,

and contemporary art

dealer. Recently launched an art

advisory firm in New York.

LARRY

GAGOSIAN

AGE: 74

Pershing Square founder,

comeback king. Bet $500 million

on his own struggling fund

and scored a nearly 50% return.

BILL

ACKMAN

AGE: 53

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Elon

Musk

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