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Mike Krieger Net Worth
Mike Krieger's Net Worth as of 2024
$100 Million
Michel “Mike” Krieger is an entrepreneur and software engineer, born on 4 March 1986, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and is best known as the co-founder of the Instagram social network. Previously, Mike worked at Meebo as a user experience designer and front-end engineer.
Have you ever wondered how rich Mike Krieger is? According to sources it has been estimated that Mike Krieger’s overall net worth is $100 million, as of mid-2016. Krieger has accumulated his net worth by becoming the co-founder of what is now one of most popular world social networks. Since he is still active as the Chief Technology Officer of Instagram, his net worth continues to grow.
Mike Krieger Net Worth $100 Million
Although born in Sao Paulo, Mike was raised in several cities, including Miami, Buenos Aires and Lisbon. Eventually, Krieger moved to California in 2004, to enroll at Stanford University and study Computer Science. It was there that he met other skillful colleagues, and worked on a variety of projects. His Master’s thesis was based on the inter-activity of user interfaces, specifically collaborating on a large scale. Upon graduation, he worked at the instant messaging firm “Meebo”, in Mountain View, where he designed the start-up and developed resources for the site for about a year and a half. Krieger also met Meebo’s founders, and used the opportunity to learn about creating small companies. While then participating in the Mayfield Fellows Program which taught about successful and failed start-ups, he worked on innovative ideas of students and offered internship programs, and met his future colleague, Kevin Systrom. The two soon started developing Kevin’s idea of starting a company, so began working on his earlier project – Burbn. Burbn was a HTML5 web app which allowed users to check in certain locations and therefore earn credits after posting photos. However, Krieger and Systrom realized that if they wanted to build a company, they would have to specialize in one thing. That’s how they started developing the app’s version which focused only on photos, but unfortunately that turned out to be a failure.
Despite their mishap, Mike didn’t lose hope and suggested working on a mobile app which would remove everything except the photos and comment feature, and the result was Instagram – an abbreviation of instant photograph or telegram – and the app’s first version was given to their friends for reviews. Instagram was launched online in October 2010, and has since become one of the most successful social network applications. Already at the beginning of 2011, Instagram had millions of users, and attracted investments from several companies such as Netscape, Facebook and Twitter. By the end of the year, it was elected the best software among the 500 000 iPhone apps, by Apple. Before being purchased by Facebook, the company had already raised $40 million with a staff of just 14 people. Since Instagram still has a growing popularity, its founders’ net worth continues to increase.
When it comes to his private life, Mike has been in a relationship with Kaitlyn Trigger, the marketing director at Rally.org, since October 2010. Krieger currently resides in San Francisco. Apart from being a successful entrepreneur, Krieger is also known for being a philanthropist. In April 2015, he announced his partnership with charity evaluator GiveWell, committing $750 000 in the following two years. The funds are raised for supporting operations, with 90% of them being recommended through the Open Philanthropy Project process.
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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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