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Michael Birch Net Worth
Michael Birch's Net Worth as of 2024
$390 Million
Michael Birch was born on 7 July 1970, in Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England, and is an entrepreneur and computer programmer, best known for co-founding numerous startups over the course of his career, including founding Bebo, the online social networking site. All of his efforts have helped put his net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Michael Birch? As of mid-2017, sources estimate a net worth that is at $390 million, earned through success in his numerous business endeavors. He’s also the co-founder of the live streaming app Blab, but has also done a lot of charity work. As he continues his career, it is expected that his wealth will also continue to increase.
Michael Birch Net Worth $390 million
Michael grew up in Hertforshire, then attended Imperial College, London in 1988 and studied Physics; he graduated in 1991.
Birch started becoming well known for helping co-found numerous startups. Along with his brother, they founded BirthdayAlarm.com, and also founded Ringo.com with Morgan Sowden, which was later sold to tickle.com. He then started-up the online social networking website Bebo with his wife. It had a major launch in 2005, and within two years the website had over 45 million registered users, even outgrowing AOL, Amazon, and the BBC, to become the sixth most popular site in the UK. They eventually sold Bebo to AOL for $850 million, which increased Michael’s net worth significantly, although the franchise quickly declined after the sale, and went into bankruptcy.
In 2008, he invested in MyStore.com and then co-founded PROfounders Capital alongside Jonnie Goodwin and Brent Hoberman. In 2013, he bought back Bebo for $1 million, but branched out to then found the exclusive club called The Battery in San Francisco. The following year, he and his wife bought the Farmers Arms public house and Manor House properties in Woolfardisworthy, North Devon; it was a popular community pub and is an historic site in the area. It was closed in 2012, as they worked to restore and re-open the pub – The Manor House is now used as a hotel.
One of Michael’s latest endeavors is the browser based platform and live streaming app Blab. The concept of the app is to allow four users to meet digitally and have a conversation. It also features a chat room function which other users can watch or join in. The app was released in 2015 through the iTunes store.
For his personal life, it is known that Birch married entrepreneur Xochi Birch in 1994, and they have three children – they started their business endeavors together after working as computer programmers for many years. They are supporters of the nonprofit organization charity water and have been reported to have given over $20 million to the organization. They also launched mycharitywater.org, which is a fundraising platform to help clean water projects around the world, plus a program with Monkey Inferno and charity water, to increase awareness of the water crisis around the world. The program also allows donations and does research on how to help solve the water crisis.
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Ben Stein Net Worth
Benjamin Jeremy Stein is an American lawyer, speechwriter, actor, writer and commentator on economic and political issues, but he is also known for participating in many other activities. For example, Ben Stein has even tried himself as a game show host. This famous person in American economics and politics was born on November 25 in 1944 in Washington, D.C., United States during World War II. He attended Columbia College and later Yale Law School. After graduation Ben Stein started to write columns and articles for different US magazines such as Newsmax, Los Angeles Magazine, Penthouse, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Magazine, The American Spectator and even for The New York Times.
Ben Stein Net Worth $20 Million
In his writings Stein usually speaks about the economic situation and political issues, and even gives financial advices to individual investors. However, in the mid-60s he also got the job of a poverty lawyer and later continued as a lawyer for the Federal Trade Comission. After few years of hard work, Ben Stein decided to try himself in acting too, but before starting to get roles he became a Hollywood consultant. Stein got his first comedy role and had to play a boring and monotonous economics teacher in the movie called Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which was released in 1986. As an actor Ben Stein has since appeared in many other movies, such as The Mask, No Intelligence Allowed, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, The Emperor’s New School, Full House, Casper: A Spirited Beginning, The O’Reilly Factor, Maried… with Children, Duckman, The Emperor’s New Schol, Earthworm Jim, Casper Meets Wendy, Family Guy and Richie Rich.
The famous actor and commentator is also recognized thanks to the Comedy Central channel where he was the main face of the show called “Win Ben Stein’s Money” for which he has even received an Emmy award. Ben Stein was earning $5,000 per episode, but money that contestants won was subtracted from actor’s salary. However, these earnings are just nothing if we compare them with Stein’s net worth, which reached $20 million in 2012.
Ben Stein is well known thanks to his ability to harmonize all his activities and show himself as a talented person in every job he does. But maybe one of his most successful, but not so well-known activities is writing speeches for American presidents. Ben Stein was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Until now Ben Stein has published 15 books, the first written together with Herbert Stein and released in 1978. In 2012 his last book appeared in stores – “How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio”.
Nowadays Ben Stein lives with his wife Alexandra Denman in Beverly Hills and Malibu, California. The couple married in 1968 and divorced after 6 years, but in 1977 they got back together again. With his wife Ben Stein adopted their son Tom in 1987. As well as his property in Beverly Hills, Ben Stein also owns a summer home in Sandpoint, Idaho and an apartment in the Watergate complex in Washingtton, D.C., which was inherited from his parents.
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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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