Businesspersons
Biz Stone Net Worth
Biz Stone's Net Worth as of 2024
$250 Million
Christopher Isaac Stone was born on 10 March 1974, in Boston, Massachusetts USA, and is an entrepreneur, software engineer, filmmaker and author, probably best known as a co-founder of Twitter.
So just how wealthy is Biz Stone? Sources state that Stone has acquired a net worth of over $250 million, as of mid-2016. His wealth has mostly been accumulated through his involvement in computer technology through creating one of the world’s most popular social platforms, Twitter.
Biz Stone Net Worth $250 Million
Stone attended Wellesley High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Upon matriculating he enrolled in Boston’s Northeastern University and also attended the University of Massachusetts, Boston. However, he never graduated from either of the two colleges.
He began working as a web designer at Boston’s Little, Brown & Co. In 1999 he participated in creating an online reviews community called Xanga, and served as the company’s Creative Director until 2001. He then moved back to his hometown and worked as a blogger out of his mother’s basement.
In 2003 Stone became part of the blogger team at Google, where he remained until 2005. He then began creating a new internet start-up, a podcasting website called Odeo, with Evan Williams, Jack Dorsey, and Noah Glass. In 2006 they formed Obvious Corporation, and turned Odeo into an online social networking service today known as Twitter, with Stone serving as Creative Director of the company. The platform’s popularity developed rapidly; it had 100 million tweets posted per quarter in 2008, and in 2009 the company reached third place in the highest-ranking social networking site list, being previously ranked 29th. It’s revenues for 2009 were $400,000 in the third quarter and $4 million in the fourth quarter, then in 2010 the company made $45 million in revenues. Stone’s wealth was considerably boosted.
However, in 2011 he left the company and, along with Williams, re-launched Obvious Corporation, out of which they started a new online publishing platform called Medium, which later started to operate as an independent business owned by Medium Corporation.
The following year Stone founded a start-up called Jelly Industries, along with Ben Finkel, and has remained the company’s CEO since. In 2014 he released a question-and-answer-based social mobile app called Jelly, and later another app called Super.me, based on sharing brief ideas with friends and people nearby. All added to his net worth.
Aside from creating apps, Stone is an angle investor, who has invested in various companies such as Square, Nest Labs, Workpop, GoodFit, Beyond Meat and others. At some of these companies he has served as a board member, and has also served as an adviser to a number of other Web-site companies. He is a Visiting Fellow at The University of Oxford and an Executive Fellow at Berkeley.
Stone served as executive producer in the 2007 science series about the development of the computer industry called “WIRED”. He made his directorial debut with the 2013 short film for Canon’s Project Imaginat10n – the film is called “Evermore” and is based on Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven”.
Stone is also author of three books: the 2002 “Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content”, the 2004 “Who Let the Blogs Out?: A Hyperconnected Peek at the World of Weblogs”, and the 2014 “Things A Little Bird Told Me: Confessions of the Creative Mind”. All added somewhat to his net worth.
He has received a number of awards and honors during his career, such as the International Center for Journalism Innovation Award and The Economist’s Innovation Award. He was named Entrepreneur of the Decade by INC Magazine, TIME listed him as one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World, Vanity Fairs listed him as one of their Top Ten Most Influential People of the Information Age, and GQ magazine named him Nerd of the Year.
When talking about his personal life, Stone has been married to writer and artist Livia Stone since 2007. They have one son together and the family resides in Marin County, California.
Stone is involved in philanthropy; along with his wife, he founded the Biz and Livia Stone Foundation, supporting education and conservation in California. He also supports organizations such as DonorsChoose and Product (RED).
Businesspersons
Charles Saatchi Net Worth
Charles Saatchi is one of the richest and best known businessmen in the world and one of many millionaires. Saatchi’s overall net worth has been stated to be $100 million for 2014. Charles Saatchi was born in Baghdad, Iraq, but later had to move together with his family to London, UK to avoid the persecution of Jews in his home country. He was the second son in the family of four kids. As a teenager Charles was really interested in American pop culture and studied at the London College of Communication. After graduation he began his professional career as a copywriter working for “Benton & Bowles” and later started to work in tandem with an art director, Ross Cramer, and together they formed their own company called “CramerSaatchi”.
Charles Saatchi Net Worth $100 Million
They were successful and took-on employees John Hegarty and Heremy Sinclair, but true success came to Charles later. In 1970 Charles Saatchi started his business together with brother Maurice: they established “Saatchi & Saatchi” agency which had become the largest advertising agency in the world by the mid-80’s with just a huge number of high-profile clients like UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and British Airways. However, Charles and Maurice left the agency and together founded another one called “M&C Saatchi”. They took many of their important clients with them, and one of these was British Airways. Nowadays, thanks to his prosperous business, Charles Saatchi has a net worth of $100 million dollars.
To the rest of the world Saatchi is also known as one of the most famous modern art collectors. He purchased his first art work in 1969 – by Sol LeWitt, a minimalist from New York. His passion for paintings only grew, and in 2009 he even published the book “My Name Is Charles Saatchi And I Am An Artoholic” wherein the author answered many questions and even gave some advice about collectibles. But the book didn’t become as popular as Saatchi expected, so the author asked his personal assistant to buy a huge number of books to help his work hit some positions in bestseller charts. Later in 2009 Saatchi appeared on the BBC program “School of Saatchi” and gave many young artists a perfect opportunity to show their talent and showcase artworks: some artists even painted portraits of Saatchi himself. In July 2010 Charles Saatchi donated his Saatchi Gallery to the British public together with 200 works of art.
Saatchi’s personal life has never been very public, but he married his first wife in 1973. He had met Doris Lockhart Dibley in 1965 while working for “Benton & Bowes”. The couple lived together for the six years before marrying, but divorced in 1990. Saatchi’s second wife was Kay Hartenstein to whom he was married from 1990-2001, and they even had a daughter together. Then Saatchi married for the third time in 2003, to English journalist, food writer, gourmet and television personality Nigella Lawson, but after public disagreements, were divorced 2013.
Businesspersons
Mikey Teutul Net Worth
Michael Joseph was born 26 November 1978, in Montgomery, New York State USA, and widely known as Mikey Teutul, is a reality television personality, the youngest son of Orange County Choppers founder Paul Teutul, Sr. Mikey began his working life at 14, in the family business.
So just how rich is Mikey Teutul, as of late 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Mikey has a net worth of over $3 million dollars, largely earned by working at his father’s and older brother Paul Jr,’s company Orange County Choppers (OCC), and Orange County Iron Works, and through his TV appearances.
Mikey Teutul Net Worth $3 Million
Little is known of Mikey’s early life or education – it seems to have always revolved around the family business. Helping out his family in his teens, theoretically he worked as Assistant General Manager. but his main duties were to answer ‘phones, and clear-up and take out the trash. He was on rare occasions given the chance to build bikes, until he was competent to build his own. He also attended events for promoting OCC.
In 2002, the family was invited to take part in a reality show, Discovery Channel’s “American Chopper”, and subsequently “American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior”, in the course of which the youngest son was thrown out of the business – the middle son is Daniel, and younger sister Cristin. The reason for Mikey’s exclusion was that Mikey tried to be a mediator between his father and his brother, but his father seemed to be offended that his younger son did not take his side, and so threw him out of the business. During the filming of the show, Mikey was somethoing of a comedy relief to his father’s workers, and that comedy streak helped gain him popularity in TV shows. Mikey then joined his brother’s post-OCC venture, -Paul Jr Designs – along with most of their father’s employees; obviously the work atmosphere with Paul Teutul, Sr. was not a particularly happy one. Mikey’s eldest brother Paul Jr. was the former chief fabricator of OCC.
So actually the main source of Mikey Teutul’s wealth is not his father’s business, but the shows he eventually took part in. These have included ‘The Late Show with David Letterman”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, and also “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno. The shows became very popular and Mikey’s appearances earned him a significant amount of money. To say the least, the family drama did not go without consequences – according to rumours, Mikey Teutul was suffering from an addiction problem, and consequently admitted himself to rehab, and managed to overcome the bad habits which were apparently hindering his progress in life, obviously including business.
In his life away from the businesses already referred to and the limelight of TV, Michael loves to paint, and is apparently respected for his productions, as he opened “The Wolfgang Gallery” gallery in Montgomery, New York, where he has sold or auctioned his paintings, adding somewhat to is net worth, although rumours suggest that the gallery may now be closed. Most recently, Mikey is now trying to enter the market under the moniker LLC FarQueue Products with his line of gourmet pasta sauces. Good luck, Mikey!
In his less-than-private personal life, Mikey is apparently still single – there aren’t even any rumours of romantic liaisons.
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