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Dan Caldwell's Net Worth as of 2024
$30 Million

Dan Caldwell, also known as ‘Punkass’, is an American entrepreneur, actor and producer, best known as a co-founder and the President of TapouT clothing company.

So just how rich is Dan Caldwell? Sources state that Caldwell has earned a net worth over $30 million, as of mid-2016. The main source of his wealth has been his TapouT brand, as well as his involvement in television and the movie industry.

Dan Caldwell Net Worth $30 Million

Caldwell was born and raised in a troubled area full of crime and violence in San Bernardino, California. For a while he worked as a police officer. He was an ardent fan of mixed martial arts and started to train the sport as an amateur. This led him and his two friends Charles Lewis and Tom Katz to start selling t-shirts out of the trunk of his car at MMA competitions, which were still illegal in California at the time. This eventually brought them to establish a brand and a unique look and start an apparel company in Grand Terrace in 1997, which would become known as TapouT. The company was producing clothes for athletes and MMA enthusiasts and Caldwell served as its CEO. It started by selling online and by sponsoring MMA fighters – in its first year it grossed nearly $30,000 in annual sales. MMA was a sport that was still relatively unknown back in the 90s and Caldwell and his partners were entering a market that barely existed, believing that the sport would become accepted and embraced by mainstream audiences. Fortunately they were right, and the company went on to greatly expand its business over the years. They eventually produced clothes, shoes, mouth guards, nutritional supplements and various fighting equipment and accessories both online and at big retail stores.

By 2006, TapouT was making $12 million in annual revenue, $100 million in 2008 and in 2009 it expanded to an incredible $200 million and had over 140 employees. Caldwell’s net worth was boosted with the brand’s success. It became a multimillion-dollar giant with its own fitness centers, sports drinks and a magazine, and its logo became synonymous with the MMA. Therefore, from selling T-shirts at illegal fights, the company went all the way to become one of the biggest sponsors for MMA fighters. It was certainly making it big, however, the company suffered a tragedy in 2009 when its co-founder Charles Lewis died in a car accident.

In 2011 Caldwell sold the company to a New York-based company Authentic Brands Group, but has remained its President.

Caldwell also owns several other businesses, such as a large real estate office called Caldwell and Taylor Realty, a Nutrishop store, a tattoo parlor and a private investment group. In 2014 he opened a frozen yogurt shop named “Chillz”, for his daughter and her stepsister, in partnership with his ex-girlfriend and her husband. He has been the host of the TapouT Radio show on Sirius XM, as well as a public speaker and business consultant. All are contributing to his wealth.

Dan Caldwell has been acting and producing movies too. In 2007 he was part of the reality television series “TapouT” aired on Versus, which portrayed him along with his two partners, the late Lewis and Katz traveling around the country scouting for promising MMA fighters to sponsor and develop their business. In 2009 and 2010 he appeared in the television series “MMA H.E.A.T.” and in the series “World Extreme Cagefighting” also in 2010. He was executive producer of the 2010 movie “The Hammer”, and also produced movies “Locked Down”, “Out of 7” and “Pretty Perfect”, as well as documentaries “The Striking Truth 3D”, “Once I was a Champion”, “Clockwork Orange County”, “Mask”, “The Actor” and “History of MMA”. He himself appeared in the 2011 movie “Warrior”, further growing his net worth.

In his personal life, Caldwell has a daughter with his ex-girlfriend Jaime Young. Sources believe he has two more children. His current relationship status is unknown.

In 2010 Caldwell helped Street Smart Jobz to provide career advice to youth leaving the foster-care centers. He was also part of a fund-raising event for the Livestrong Foundation and the SickKids Foundation in 2012.

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Charles Saatchi Net Worth

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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.

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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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