Businesspersons
John W. Thompson Net Worth
John Wendell Thompson's Net Worth as of 2024
$250 Million
John Wendell Thompson was born on 24 April 1949, in Fort Dix, New Jersey, USA, and is a businessman best known for being the current chairman of Microsoft and the CEO of Virtual Instruments. He’s also worked with companies like Symantec and IBM. The various investments he’s made and positions he’s occupied in his life have raised his net worth to where it is now.
How rich is John W. Thompson? As of early-2016, sources estimate that his net worth is at $250 million, mostly earned through his success in the business world. He is part of the board of numerous high profile organizations and he also owns a 20% share of the National Basketball Association (NBA) team, the Golden State Warriors.
John W. Thompson Net Worth $250 Million
John attended John F. Kennedy High School in Florida and then went to Florida A&M University, graduating with a degree in Business Administration during 1971. By 1981, he received his master’s degree from MIT Sloan School of Management. From this period after college and even beyond finishing his master’s degree, he spent 28 years with the IBM Corporation. He climbed the corporate ladder and worked in various parts of the company, including sales, marketing and software development. He became senior executive and then general manager of IBM Americas before becoming part of IBM’s Worldwide Management Council. He eventually left the company to become Symantec’s CEO in 1999.
While working at Symantec, Thompson was given the opportunity to become part of the National Infrastructure Advisory Committee, which position on the committee was vital to the development of infrastructure in the United States. John was reported to have a total compensation of $71.84 million as CEO and his net worth was rising significantly. By 2009, he retired from his position as CEO. After leaving Symantec, many thought that Thompson would go towards being an investor but surprised many when he became the Chief Executive for technology start-up, Virtual Instruments.
This was also the time, in 2005, when Thompson purchased a 20% share of the Golden State Warriors along with a few other businessmen, all of whom became part of Bay Area Basketball Partners, L.L.C.
From this point, and even during his time as CEO, John had the opportunity to become part of the board for various companies. These include Microsoft, Seagate Technology, Liquid Robotics, Teach for America, Florida University A&M Cluster among others. He received the Pioneer Leader Business Award from Silicon Valley thanks to his achievements in business and education.
Starting from 2014, Thompson would succeed Bill Gates to become chairman of Microsoft, and would later conduct the search for Microsoft’s next CEO, wherein Satya Nadella was chosen. Many believe that the Thompson and Nadella partnership could be one of the best moves the company has made in a while. According to some sources, John tackled similar problems to that of Microsoft while he handled Symantec in the past.
John is active in politics and was a big supporter during the 2008 campaign of Barack Obama. He was under consideration for the position of Secretary of Commerce by the president himself. Eventually in 2009, he became part of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
Thompson likes to keeps his personal life private, out of th public spotlight.
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
Alexis Ohanian Net Worth
Alexis Ohanian was born on 24 April 1983 in New York City USA, of Armenian and German heritage. He is perhaps best known as a co-founder of the social news and networking website Reddit. He has also helped in launching the online travel company Hipmunk and created Breadpig, a company which sells “geeky” merchandise and gives a lot of its profit to charities.
So how rich is Alexis Ohanian? Sources estimate his current net worth to be $4 million. Most of his wealth has been accumulated by working on Reddit and Breadpig.
Alexis Ohanian Net Worth $4 Million
Alex Ohanian studied at the University of Virginia and after graduating in 2005 he, together with Aaron Swartz and Steve Huffman created Reddit. The company was bought by Conde Nast Publications, but Ohanian still had great influence as one of the people in Reddit’s Board of Directors. Of course, Alexis’ net worth rose significantly.
Alexis created another company, with the strange name Breadpig in 2007. This company mostly concentrates on selling “geeky” merchandise and has an unusual approach to business, claiming to be an “uncorporation”, which means that they try to use the earned money to support charities and other projects. Alexis decided to leave the Reddit’s team in 2009. A year later Ohanian became an advisor to the Hipmunk website and helped to launch it.
Apart from being known as a businessman leading great internet websites which have built most of his net worth, Ohanian is also known as a social activist. Between 2010 and 2012, the Internet users were threatened by the SOPA (Stop Internet Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act). Ohanian was an outspoken activist against these acts and was one of the key people who helped to vote down these bills. After these events, Ohanian was chosen as the first on The Daily Dot’s list of “Most influential activists of 2012”. While these social acts did not necessarily help to directly raise his net worth, they certainly helped to raise Ohanian’s popularity and earned him a lot of fans on the Internet.
In 2013, Ohanian published his first book, entitled “Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed” which made it to #5 on the Hardcover Business best sellers list in the Wall Street Journal. In the same year, Ohanian started his own web series, called “Small Empires with Alexis Ohanian”.
Ohanian has also been a part of two radio podcast shows: NYRD Radio in 2014 and Upvoted which started in 2015, and is strongly related to Reddit as it examines some of the stories found on that website. All of these endeavors have helped to increase Ohanian’s net worth.
In his personal life, Alexis Ohanian is not married yet. During the time-off from his businesses and projects, Alexis speaks at lectures and conferences in various universities, also on some of the most influential companies such as Google, Kraft, Johnson & Johnson and others.
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