The Forbes 400: 89 CA Billionaires Made The Cut

CALIFORNIA — America’s billionaires are richer than they’ve ever been, Forbes said with Tuesday’s release of The Forbes 400 — its annual list of the 400 richest U.S. billionaires. Eighty-nine people from California made the cut.

In the Golden State, The Forbes 400 billionaires are:

• No. 3: Mark Zuckerberg (37), $134.5 billion from Facebook; Lives in Palo Alto
• No. 5: Larry Page (48), $123 billion from Google; Lives in Palo Alto
• No. 6: Sergey Brin (48), $118.5 billion from Google; Lives in Atherton
• No. 29: Dustin Moskovitz (37), $24.1 billion from Facebook; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 30: Eric Schmidt (66), $23.9 billion from Google; Lives in Atherton
• No. 33: Laurene Powell Jobs and family (57), $22.1 billion from Apple, Disney; Lives in Los Altos
• No. 34: Jensen Huang (58), $21.3 billion from semiconductors; Lives in San Jose
• No. 38: Robert Pera (43), $19 billion from wireless networking gear; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 46: Donald Bren (89), $16.2 billion from Irvine Co. real estate; Lives in Newport Beach
• No. 51: John Doerr (70), $15.2 billion from venture capital; Lives in Woodside
• No. 51: Bobby Murphy (33), $15.2 billion from Snapchat; Lives in Venice
• No. 53: Jack Dorsey (44), $14.9 billion from Twitter, Square; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 54: Eric Yuan and family (51), $14.5 billion from Zoom Video Communications; Lives in Santa Clara
• No. 55: Evan Spiegel (31), $13.8 billion from Snapchat; Lives in Los Angeles
• No. 57: Brian Chesky (40), $12.5 billion from Airbnb; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 60: Brian Armstrong (38), $11.5 billion from cryptocurrency; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 60: Charles Schwab (84), $11.5 billion from discount brokerage; Lives in Woodside
• No. 65: Jan Koum (45), $10.9 billion from WhatsApp; Lives in Atherton
• No. 66: Joe Gebbia (40), $10.8 billion from Airbnb; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 66: Gordon Moore (92), $10.8 billion from Intel; Lives in Woodside
• No. 71: David Geffen (78), $10.5 billion from movies, record labels; Lives in Beverly Hills
• No. 74: Marc Benioff (57), $10.2 billion from business software; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 75: Steven Rales (70), $10.1 billion from manufacturing; Lives in Santa Barbara
• No. 76: Nathan Blecharczyk (38), $10 billion from Airbnb; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 88: George Roberts (78), $9 billion from private equity; Lives in Atherton
• No. 89: Patrick Soon-Shiong (69), $8.9 billion from pharmaceuticals; Lives in Los Angeles
• No. 92: Vinod Khosla (66), $8.6 billion from venture capital; Lives in Portola Valley
• No. 98: Jack Dangermond (76), $8.4 billion from mapping software; Lives in Redlands
• No. 107: Douglas Leone (64), $8.1 billion from venture capital; Lives in Atherton
• No. 108: Marijke Mars (57), $8 billion from candy, pet food; Lives in Los Angeles
• No. 108: Stewart and Lynda Resnick (N/A), $8 billion from agriculture, water; Lives in Beverly Hills
• No. 124: George Lucas (77), $7.2 billion from Star Wars; Lives in San Anselmo
• No. 124: Michael Moritz (67), $7.2 billion from venture capital; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 133: Ken Xie (58), $7 billion from cybersecurity; Lives in Los Altos Hills
• No. 134: Anthony Wood (55), $6.9 billion from Roku; Lives in Palo Alto
• No. 138: Jeff Skoll (56), $6.8 billion from eBay; Lives in Los Angeles
• No. 141: David Sun (69), $6.7 billion from Kingston memory chips; Lives in Irvine
• No. 141: John Tu (80), $6.7 billion from Kingston memory chips; Lives in Rolling Hills
• No. 146: Henry Samueli (67), $6.6 billion from Broadcom semiconductors; Lives in Newport Beach
• No. 151: Meg Whitman (65), $6.4 billion from eBay; Lives in Los Angeles
• No. 161: Antony Ressler (59), $6.2 billion from finance; Lives in Los Angeles
• No. 168: Edward Roski, Jr. (82), $6.1 billion from real estate; Lives in Los Angeles
• No. 168: John A. Sobrato and family (82), $6.1 billion from real estate; Lives in Palo Alto
• No. 172: Chris Larsen (61), $6 billion from cryptocurrency; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 176: Scott Cook (69), $5.9 billion from software; Lives in Woodside
• No. 176: Tom Gores (57), $5.9 billion from private equity; Lives in Beverly Hills
• No. 182: Peter Gassner (56), $5.8 billion from software; Lives in Pleasanton
• No. 182: Henry Nicholas, III. (61), $5.8 billion from Broadcom semiconductors; Lives in Newport Coast
• No. 188: Reed Hastings (60), $5.7 billion from Netflix; Lives in Santa Cruz
• No. 195: David Baszucki (58), $5.6 billion from Roblox online gaming; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 195: Dagmar Dolby and family (80), $5.6 billion from Dolby Laboratories; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 195: Eric Smidt (61), $5.6 billion from Harbor Freight Tools; Lives in Beverly Hills
• No. 200: Don Hankey (78), $5.5 billion from auto loans; Lives in Malibu
• No. 206: Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer (59), $5.2 billion from Cargill; Lives in Rancho Santa Fe
• No. 209: Jeff Tangney (49), $5.1 billion from healthcare IT; Lives in Palo Alto
• No. 224: Jeff Rothschild (66), $4.8 billion from Facebook; Lives in Palo Alto
• No. 229: Rupert Johnson, Jr. (81), $4.7 billion from Franklin Templeton money management; Lives in Burlingame
• No. 247: Gary Friedman (64), $4.5 billion from Restoration Hardware; Lives in Newbury Park
• No. 253: Jeff T. Green (44), $4.4 billion from online advertising; Lives in Newbury Park
• No. 261: Rick Caruso (62), $4.3 billion from real estate; Lives in Los Angeles
• No. 269: Lynsi Snyder (39), $4.2 billion from In-N-Out Burger; Lives in Glendora
• No. 273: Thomas Siebel (68), $4.1 billion from business software; Lives in Woodside
• No. 273: Peter Thiel (53), $4.1 billion from Facebook, investments; Lives in Los Angeles
• No. 273: Steven Udvar-Hazy (75), $4.1 billion from aircraft leasing; Lives in Beverly Hills
• No. 289: Jean (Gigi) Pritzker (59), $3.9 billion from hotels, investments; Lives in Los Angeles
• No. 289: Donald Sterling (87), $3.9 billion from real estate; Lives in Beverly Hills
• No. 289: Michael Xie (52), $3.9 billion from cybersecurity; Lives in Los Altos
• No. 300: Michael Milken (75), $3.8 billion from investments; Lives in Los Angeles
• No. 310: Anthony Pritzker (60), $3.7 billion from hotels, investments; Lives in Los Angeles
• No. 310: Steven Spielberg (74), $3.7 billion from movies; Lives in Pacific Palisades
• No. 318: David Filo (55), $3.6 billion from Yahoo; Lives in Palo Alto
• No. 318: Jay Paul (74), $3.6 billion from real estate; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 333: Archie Aldis Emmerson and family (92), $3.5 billion from timberland, lumber mills; Lives in Redding
• No. 333: Romesh T. Wadhwani (74), $3.5 billion from software; Lives in Palo Alto
• No. 340: Behdad Eghbali (45), $3.4 billion from private equity; Lives in Los Angeles
• No. 340: Jose E. Feliciano (48), $3.4 billion from private equity; Lives in Marina Del Rey
• No. 340: RJ Scaringe (38), $3.4 billion from Rivian electric trucks; Lives in Irvine
• No. 340: Jerry Yang (52), $3.4 billion from Yahoo; Lives in Los Altos
• No. 358: Ben Silbermann (39), $3.3 billion from social media; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 363: Aneel Bhusri (55), $3.2 billion from business software; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 363: Alice Schwartz (95), $3.2 billion from biotech; Lives in El Cerrito
• No. 368: Haim Saban (76), $3.1 billion from TV network, investments; Lives in Beverly Hills
• No. 368: Rodney Sacks (71), $3.1 billion from Monster energy drinks; Lives in Laguna Beach
• No. 377: Neal Blue and family (86), $3 billion from defense; Lives in San Diego
• No. 377: Jed McCaleb (46), $3 billion from cryptocurrency; Lives in Berkeley
• No. 389: Riley Bechtel and family (69), $2.9 billion from engineering, construction; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 389: Baiju Bhatt (36), $2.9 billion from Robinhood stock trading app; Lives in Palo Alto
• No. 389: John Fisher (60), $2.9 billion from Gap; Lives in San Francisco
• No. 389: Paul Sciarra (40), $2.9 billion from Pinterest; Lives in San Francisco

Jeff Bezos, the founder of the e-commerce giant Amazon, again topped The Forbes 400 list. His net worth was $189.8 billion, according to Forbes’ real-time wealth tracker. Bezos has topped the list for four consecutive years.

Rounding out the top five and the size of their fortunes at the end of trading Monday are Tesla founder Elon Musk ($190.5 billion), Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg ($134.5 billion), Microsoft founder Bill Gates ($134 billion) and Google executive Larry Page ($123 billion).

Forbes said that though the pandemic made 2020 a terrible year for many, the wealthiest Americans continued to enjoy good economic times. Collectively, the personal fortunes of the 400 richest billionaires increased 40 percent over the past year to $4.5 trillion, up from $3.2 trillion the year prior.

Nearly all are richer than they were a year ago, Forbes said, and the top 20 are worth $1.8 trillion.

Forbes calculated the net worth of those on the list using stock prices at Wall Street’s closing bell on Sept. 3, which was close to a record high close for U.S. stock indices such as the S&P 500.

Among the 44 people who fell off the list was former President Donald Trump, who had been among the 400 richest Americans for 25 years. He continues to be a billionaire. He is as wealthy as he was a year ago, when he ranked 339, but he’s lost $600 million since the start of the pandemic, Forbes noted. Big-city properties, which make up the bulk of the real estate mogul’s holdings, have languished during the pandemic.

Newcomers to The Forbes 400 include cryptocurrency entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried, who at 29 is the youngest person on the list. He’s worth $22.5 billion, ranks 32nd and is among seven cryptocurrency entrepreneurs on the list.

There are 56 women on the list, the same number as a year ago. Oprah Winfrey and Gap co-founder Doris Fisher fell off the list, but new to the list are Melinda French Gates, following her divorce from Bill Gates; and Miriam Adelson, heir to her late husband Sheldon Adelson’s stake in the Las Vegas Sands casino empire.

Alice Walton remains the richest woman in America for the seventh year. The Walmart heir is worth $67.9 billion.

In all, 282 people on the list are self-made billionaires.