Worth
~$14.8B
Quiet extraction United Kingdom uk finance quant trading market-making
XTX Markets founder: wealth via high-speed market-making and quantitative trading.
Vibes
📉⚡
Firm
XTX
Mode
Quant
Better Britain Bureau
Independent, Manchester-rooted, evidence-led reporting and explainers.
Elon Musk is our LEAST Problematic Billionaire
- Not literally, there's probably one doing something good somewhere, we'll keep looking.
He plays video-games and smokes pot, he's cool, supposedly (let's not get distracted by that). Let's look at who else is quietly milling around while a handful of showboaters pick-up the headlines because real policy is boring or just not clickable enough.
The more structurally “problematic” billionaires are often the ones you can’t name: they stay private, they sit inside supply-chains, taking their cuts. They can steer whole regions and sectors without ever running for anything, and you couldn't pick most of them out of a crowd.
We talk about them a lot, so this is our ongoing attempt to source-link a sticker-book of billionaires.
About this database
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Worth
~$37.3B
Sanctions / convictions Russia industry steel sanctions
Severstal owner: industrial compounding with sanctions-era asset reshuffling.
Vibes
🏭🧊
Age
60
Core
Steel
Sanctions
2022+
Worth
~$154B
dynasty United States retail walmart dynasty art usa
Walmart heir: wealth from inherited ownership; public-facing footprint leans into art/culture.
Connections:Jim Walton Rob Walton
Receipts# Sources 2
Vibes
🖼️🛒
Age
76
Asset
Walmart
Tell
Art
Worth
~$26.9B
public Nigeria industry cement refinery fertilizer
Dangote Group: cement dominance plus the huge refinery bet reshaping Nigeria’s fuel plumbing.
Vibes
🏗️🛢️
Age
68
Stack
Cement+Oil
Mode
Industry
Worth
~$14.4B
Sanctions / convictions Russia / Uzbekistan russia uzbekistan metals sanctions investments
Metalloinvest: iron ore/steel wealth plus a history of global tech stakes and sanctions exposure.
Vibes
⛓️📵
Age
72
Core
Metals
Sanctions
2022+
Worth
~$140B
Quiet extraction Spain retail fast-fashion inditex real-estate
Inditex (Zara): retail velocity + ownership, with much of the persona kept quiet.
Vibes
👕🏗️
Age
89
Company
Inditex
Mode
Retail
Worth
~$8.05B
Quiet extraction United Kingdom uk industry construction machinery jcb private
JCB: private industrial wealth from construction machinery compounding.
Vibes
🚜🏭
Age
79
Brand
JCB
Mode
Private
Worth
~$3.5B+ (est.)
Sanctions / convictions Russia sanctions oligarchs state-contracts evasion
Sanctioned oligarchs described as benefiting from state-linked contracts and asset reshuffling after designation.
Receipts# Sources 7
- Worth (estimate): Wikipedia summarises press estimates putting Arkady at ~$3.5B (varies by year/source); Boris is also described as a billionaire in press profiles. (Arkady — Wikipedia) (Boris — Wikipedia)
- Wealth/control: U.S. Treasury described the model as supporting Putin’s projects and receiving high-price contracts (Gazprom, Sochi Olympics). (U.S. Treasury)
- Wealth/control: Treasury also highlighted asset reshuffling post-sanctions (e.g. selling stakes to Arkady’s son Igor). (U.S. Treasury)
- Person signals: Reuters reported Arkady claiming ownership of the palace Navalny’s team linked to Putin (a “take the heat” move). (Reuters)
- Person signals: U.S. Senate investigation discusses how sanctioned Russian oligarchs used opaque art markets; Rotenberg-linked structures appear in that storyline. (U.S. Senate report)
- Person signals: UK sanctions notice language is blunt about involvement in destabilising Ukraine / undermining sovereignty. (GOV.UK (PDF))
Vibes
🏗️🚫
Sanctions
US Treasury
Model
State contracts
UK
Sanctioned
Worth
~$174B
dynasty France luxury brands lvmh
LVMH boss: multi-brand luxury compounding with deep family control.
Vibes
👜👑
Age
76
Company
LVMH
Mode
Brands
Worth
~$106B
public United States tech microsoft philanthropy investing
Microsoft co-founder: wealth from early platform dominance + later investing/philanthropy vehicle.
Vibes
💻🧫
Age
70
Origin
Microsoft
Mode
Foundation
Worth
~$126B
Quiet extraction Mexico telecom infrastructure holding-company
Telecom/infrastructure magnate: long-run control positions across a web of companies.
Vibes
📞🕸️
Age
86
Sector
Telecom
Mode
Holdco
Worth
~$11.1B
Quiet extraction United Kingdom uk finance hedge-funds activism tci
TCI founder: activist investing and concentrated capital power.
Vibes
📈🧊
Fund
TCI
Mode
Activist
Worth
~$43.2B
Quiet extraction China tech e-commerce pdd temu
PDD founder: built a giant discount-commerce machine and scaled it globally via Temu.
Vibes
🛒⚡
Age
45
Platform
PDD/Temu
Mode
Scale
Worth
~$19.5B
Quiet extraction India health vaccines private-companies
Serum Institute: vaccine manufacturing scale with family control and low personal visibility.
Vibes
🧫🏭
Age
84
Core
Vaccines
Mode
Private
Worth
~$1.5B (est.)
Sanctions / convictions Israel / DR Congo mining drc sanctions corruption-allegations offshore
Sanctioned mining middleman described as a tollbooth for Congolese resource deals.
Receipts# Sources 4
- Worth (estimate): Wikipedia summarises press estimates putting him at roughly ~$1.5B (order-of-magnitude only). (Wikipedia)
- Wealth/control: U.S. Treasury said he leveraged close ties to then-president Joseph Kabila to act as a middleman for mining asset sales; multinationals “had to go through” him. (U.S. Treasury)
- Wealth/control: Treasury also said he and his company used offshore companies to facilitate deals; framed as “opaque and corrupt” mining/oil deals. (U.S. Treasury)
- Person signals: Reuters/FT covered sanctions/waiver drama and proposals tied to him exiting Congo / continuing royalty flows. (Reuters)
- Person signals: Treasury framing: politically-networked fixer; he denies wrongdoing and fights via lobbying/lawyers. (U.S. Treasury)
Vibes
⛏️🚫
Sanctions
US Treasury
Sector
Mining
Offshore
Alleged
Worth
~$13.3B
Quiet extraction United Kingdom uk real-estate private dealmakers
Reuben brothers: private wealth via property, investing, and long-run dealmaking.
Connections:Simon Reuben
Vibes
🏗️🧾
Stack
Property
Mode
Private
Worth
~$14B+
Quiet extraction United States hardware supply-chain private-companies philanthropy
Kingston co-owner: private component supply-chain power with a foundation-forward public footprint.
Connections:John Tu
Receipts# Sources 4
- Wealth/control: Private company, 50/50 ownership, minimal disclosure, huge reach into memory/storage supply chains. (Bloomberg)
- Wealth/control: SoftBank sale/buyback treated as defining capital move locking in wealth while keeping control. (Los Angeles Times)
- Person signals: Foundation is explicit about mission/values and is vehicle for major giving. (Sun Family Foundation)
- Person signals: Hoag documents a $50M gift from the Sun Family Foundation. (Hoag Hospital Foundation PDF)
- Person signals: Public footprint is mostly in philanthropy lanes (foundation, big gifts, local impact), not interviews/persona-building. (Sun Family Foundation)
Vibes
💾🎁
Age
74
Ownership
50%
Worth
~$41B
Quiet extraction Germany retail supermarkets private foundation
Lidl/Kaufland owner: private, reclusive, and structurally powerful through grocery supply chains.
Receipts# Sources 4
- Wealth/control: Controls the Schwarz Group (Lidl + Kaufland) and kept it private while routing ownership through the Dieter Schwarz Stiftung. (Wikipedia)
- Wealth/control: Schwarz Group bundles retail with production and waste/recycling (PreZero) plus a growing tech stack (STACKIT / Schwarz Digits), internalising margins and squeezing suppliers. (Schwarz Group)
- Person signals: Bloomberg coverage has described him as reclusive / extremely press-averse. (Bloomberg)
- Person signals: Public record often frames him as unusually low-profile for the scale of his retail footprint. (Bloomberg)
- Person signals: Forbes’ 2025 list context is often used as the baseline for reporting his scale. (Forbes (Top 200, 2025))
Vibes
🕶️🛒
Age
86
Brands
2
Worth
~$677B
public United States tech tesla spacex social-media ai
Serial founder/operator with unusually direct control over platforms, factories, and attention.
Receipts# Sources 2
- Worth: Bloomberg’s profile tracks his net worth; this is the number we use for sorting. (Bloomberg)
- Wealth/control: Wikipedia summarises his roles across Tesla, SpaceX and other ventures (where control/leverage comes from concentrated ownership + leadership positions). (Wikipedia)
- Person signals: “Public billionaire” archetype: runs his own narrative in public, in real time. (Wikipedia)
Vibes
🚀🎭
Age
54
Companies
Tesla/SpaceX
Platform
X
Worth
~$95.0B
dynasty France consumer beauty loreal dynasty
L’Oréal heir: generational brand ownership turning into enormous, quiet leverage.
Vibes
🧴👑
Age
72
Asset
L’Oréal
Mode
Heir
Worth
~$66.5B
public India infrastructure ports airports energy
Adani Group: ports/airports/power and a reputation built on building infrastructure at scale.
Vibes
⚓🏗️
Age
63
Stack
Ports+Power
Mode
Infra
Worth
~$37.7B
Quiet extraction Switzerland shipping ports private infrastructure
Private shipping power: MSC plus terminal/port ownership, with minimal public footprint.
Connections:Rafaela Aponte-Diamant
Receipts# Sources 5
- Wealth/control: Family owns MSC, which grew into the world’s biggest container shipping line while staying private. (Forbes profile)
- Wealth/control: Port/terminal infrastructure: TiL shareholder documentation is a window into who sits behind container terminal ownership. (TiL shareholders)
- Wealth/control: MSC has been pushing into European port assets (e.g. HHLA coverage). (Reuters)
- Person signals: MSC’s own leadership material leans on “Captain” framing and family-run continuity. (MSC leadership)
- Person signals: Regulators, not gossip: FMC announced civil penalties against MSC in early 2026 (an example of “boring power” generating sharp edges). (U.S. Federal Maritime Commission)
Vibes
🚢🧊
Age
85
MSC
Private
Worth
~$25.4B
public Australia mining iron-ore cattle lithium
Hancock Prospecting: iron ore wealth plus rare earths/gas and huge pastoral holdings.
Vibes
⛏️🐄
Age
72
Core
Iron ore
Tell
Cattle
Worth
~$41.7B
dynasty Italy consumer food brands family
Ferrero exec chair: Nutella/Kinder/Tic Tac empire with family control.
Vibes
🍫🏰
Age
61
Stack
Brands
Tell
Nutella
Worth
~$32.9B
Quiet extraction China industry appliances midea
Midea founder: household manufacturing scale plus robotics exposure (Kuka).
Vibes
🧊🏠
Age
83
Company
Midea
Mode
Manufacturing
Worth
~$11.4B
dynasty United Kingdom uk real-estate land aristocracy dynasty
Duke of Westminster: inherited property/land power via the Grosvenor estate.
Vibes
🏰🗺️
Age
35
Stack
Land
Mode
Heir
Worth
~$2B (peak est.)
Sanctions / convictions Angola sanctions corruption-allegations shell-companies
Elite-daughter capitalism with sanctions and prosecutors: alleged influence + corporate plumbing + cross-border assets.
Receipts# Sources 5
- Worth (peak estimate): Wikipedia summarises widely-reported estimates of her wealth reaching the low single-digit billions before freezes/claims escalated. (Wikipedia)
- Wealth/control: Reuters reported UK travel ban + asset freeze under anti-corruption regime; she denies wrongdoing and calls it political. (Reuters)
- Wealth/control: Reuters also reported UK court action freezing assets tied to a Unitel dispute; she lost an appeal against freezing order. (Reuters)
- Person signals: Time summary of Luanda Leaks allegations: influence + shell companies + cross-border empire (denied). (TIME)
- Person signals: ICIJ coverage summarises UK sanctions rationale as “stealing country’s wealth for personal gain” (a claim/summary, not a proven fact). (ICIJ)
Vibes
👑🕸️
Sanctions
UK
Assets
Frozen
Denial
Denies wrongdoing
Worth
~$20.8B
public United Kingdom uk consumer hardware design dyson
Dyson founder: product innovation + brand premium compounding into private-company wealth.
Vibes
🌀🔧
Age
78
Brand
Dyson
Mode
Inventor
Worth
~$8.2B
Quiet extraction United States food dairy supply-chain private-companies
Behind-the-brand ingredient dominance: mozzarella supply-chain billionaire with extreme privacy.
Receipts# Sources 3
- Wealth/control: “Own the ingredient behind the brand”: dominant mozzarella supplier for major pizza chains via long relationships. (Porter’s Five Forces (blog))
- Wealth/control: Private, family-heavy ownership; reporting around family litigation over stakes highlights internal governance power. (CBS News)
- Person signals: Described as intensely private / reclusive industrialist rather than public figure. (Wall Street Journal)
- Person signals: Profiles focus on operational grind of scaling dairy into an industrial system, not glamour. (Wall Street Journal)
- Person signals: Family-court coverage reveals the ownership-control social world around him. (CBS News)
Vibes
🧀🏭
Age
87
Worth
~$225B
public United States tech retail logistics amazon space
Amazon founder: supply-chain scale + cloud infrastructure + space ambition.
Vibes
📦🚀
Age
62
Company
Amazon
Sidequest
Space
Worth
~$151B
public United States tech chips ai nvidia
Nvidia co-founder/CEO: compounding leverage from controlling a key compute chokepoint.
Vibes
🖥️🧠
Age
63
Company
Nvidia
Stack
AI chips
Worth
~$23.1B
public United Kingdom uk industry chemicals ineos sports
INEOS founder: heavy-industry leverage, dealmaking, and ownership control.
Vibes
🏭🧪
Age
73
Group
INEOS
Mode
Industry
Worth
~$158B
dynasty United States retail walmart dynasty usa
Walmart heir: inherited ownership in one of the world’s biggest retail + supply-chain machines.
Connections:Rob Walton Alice Walton
Receipts# Sources 2
Vibes
🛒🏦
Age
77
Asset
Walmart
Mode
Dynasty
Worth
~$21.8B
Quiet extraction United States hardware supply-chain private-companies philanthropy
Kingston co-owner: private supply-chain power plus unusual ‘shared the win’ bonus history and quiet giving.
Connections:David Sun
Receipts# Sources 5
- Wealth/control: Kingston is private; Bloomberg profile notes 50/50 ownership split between Tu and Sun. (Bloomberg)
- Wealth/control: SoftBank round-trip: sold 80% for $1.5B (1996), bought it back for $450M (1999), keeping the company and a chunk of SoftBank shares. (Los Angeles Times)
- Person signals: Wired recounts a $100M employee bonus after the SoftBank sale; LA Times covered the era as an unprecedented package. (WIRED)
- Person signals: Practical giving: UC Irvine reporting describes a $1.2M gift funding iPads for incoming med students. (UC Irvine News)
- Person signals: LA Times “Freedom Writers” reporting frames him as a quiet benefactor who gets personally involved while avoiding attention. (Los Angeles Times)
Vibes
💾🤝
Age
84
Ownership
50%
Worth
~$5B (press est.)
Sanctions / convictions Hong Kong hong-kong real-estate convicted jurisdiction-arbitrage luxury
Convicted tycoon with ‘luxury villain’ public tells: bribery case plus record diamond purchases.
Receipts# Sources 3
- Worth (estimate): The Straits Times described him as a multi‑billionaire, citing Bloomberg’s index as putting him at about $5B (order-of-magnitude only). (The Straits Times)
- Wealth/control: Reuters reported he was found guilty in Macau of bribery and money laundering in a land deal; without extradition treaty he could avoid imprisonment unless he travelled into the wrong jurisdiction. (Reuters)
- Wealth/control: Control levers described as real-estate wealth + political/land access games + jurisdictional arbitrage. (Reuters)
- Person signals: Reuters reported record diamond purchase named “Star of Josephine”. (Reuters)
Vibes
💎🕶️
Conviction
Macau (bribery)
Flex
Record diamonds
Extradition
Without treaty
Worth
~$39.6B
Quiet extraction Germany logistics shipping aviation ports ownership
Owns trade bottlenecks: freight forwarding plus strategic stakes in airlines and port infrastructure.
Receipts# Sources 4
- Wealth/control: Voting control: Kuehne Holding AG holds ~55% of Kühne+Nagel, with voting rights held by him (directly/indirectly). (Kühne+Nagel annual report)
- Wealth/control: Layers on strategic stakes in global-trade plumbing (e.g. Lufthansa stake increases; ties to HHLA manoeuvres). (Reuters)
- Person signals: Profiles describe him weighing in on politics and economic questions, not just business. (Cinco Días)
- Person signals: Frames himself as legacy-planner: stated intent for fortune to end up with his foundation; foundation documents logistics/medicine/climate funding. (Cinco Días)
- Person signals: Recent reporting has re-examined the family fortune’s origins in the Nazi era. (Vanity Fair)
Vibes
📦🧊
Age
88
K+N stake
~55%
Worth
~$213B
public United States tech enterprise oracle cloud
Oracle co-founder: enterprise software moat with long-run compounding ownership.
Vibes
🗄️🏝️
Age
81
Company
Oracle
Sector
Cloud
Worth
~$263B
Quiet extraction United States tech search ads alphabet private-jets
Google co-founder: low‑profile, but still structurally powerful via ownership and platform legacy.
Connections:Sergey Brin
Vibes
🔍🧘
Age
52
Company
Google
Role
Founder
Worth
~$29.7B
public China tech hardware smartphones ev
Xiaomi founder/CEO: device ecosystem power with an aggressive EV push.
Vibes
📱🚗
Age
56
Company
Xiaomi
Sidequest
EV
Worth
~$26.4B
Sanctions / convictions Russia energy gas chemicals
Novatek founder: natural gas + petrochemicals power with art-world patronage.
Vibes
⛽🖼️
Age
70
Company
Novatek
Tell
GES-2
Worth
~$46.4B
dynasty Hong Kong hong-kong conglomerate infrastructure real-estate
CK Hutchison/CK Asset: conglomerate compounding with deep family control.
Vibes
🏗️🧓
Age
97
Mode
Conglomerate
Tell
Foundation
Worth
~$20.4B
Quiet extraction Indonesia / Singapore indonesia singapore energy coal infrastructure
Bayan Resources founder: commodity leverage via Indonesian coal and energy interests.
Vibes
🪨🧊
Age
76
Core
Coal
Mode
Commodity
Worth
~$56.7B
Quiet extraction China tech tencent wechat games
Tencent founder/CEO: WeChat + gaming + investments as a platform-layer empire.
Vibes
💬🎮
Age
54
Platform
WeChat
Mode
Graph
Worth
~$226B
public United States tech social-media meta ads vr
Meta founder with concentrated voting control over one of the world’s largest ad/social graphs.
Vibes
🧑💻🕸️
Age
41
Company
Meta
Control
Votes
Worth
~$135B
public United States tech hardware enterprise private-equity
Dell founder: wealth from hardware/enterprise control + buyout-era financial engineering.
Vibes
🖥️🔧
Age
60
Company
Dell
Mode
Buyout
Worth
~$18.9B
dynasty Indonesia finance banking tobacco private
Djarum/BCA: banking + tobacco dynasty wealth with long-run private control.
Connections:R. Budi Hartono
Vibes
🏦🚬
Age
85
Core
BCA
Mode
Family
Worth
~$24.1B
Quiet extraction United Kingdom uk finance hedge-funds family-office jurisdiction-shopping
‘Invisible billionaire’ hedge-fund alumnus who moved BlueCrest to a quieter family-office model.
Receipts# Sources 2
- Wealth/control: Built wealth via BlueCrest hedge-fund model (outside money + fees + information advantage). (FN London)
- Wealth/control: Shifted BlueCrest away from external capital into a family-office model, reducing scrutiny while keeping upside. (FN London)
- Person signals: Covered as an “invisible billionaire” compared to celebrity-class rich. (The Times)
- Person signals: Openly jurisdiction-mobile: reporting has covered his move to the UAE as part of “where should a billionaire live” calculus. (FN London)
Vibes
📈🏝️
Age
57
Model
Family office
Worth
~$16.2B
Sanctions / convictions Russia finance banking sanctions commodities
Alfa/LetterOne: post‑Soviet banking and commodities wealth with sanctions-era constraints.
Vibes
🏦🧊
Age
61
Mode
Finance
Sanctions
2022+
Worth
~$96.4B
dynasty India conglomerate energy telecom
Reliance leader: conglomerate scale across energy, retail and telecom/data infrastructure.
Vibes
🛢️📡
Age
68
Group
Reliance
Stack
Energy→Data
Worth
~$11.4B
public United Kingdom uk finance fintech banking revolut
Revolut co-founder: tech-speed finance and a massive consumer financial graph.
Vibes
📱🏦
Company
Revolut
Mode
Fintech
Worth
~$30B
Quiet extraction Indonesia industry petrochemicals energy
Barito Pacific/Chandra Asri: industrial assets and energy transition plays.
Vibes
🌴🧪
Age
82
Stack
Industry
Mode
Assets
Worth
~$19.6B
dynasty Indonesia finance banking tobacco private
Djarum/BCA: tobacco cashflows → banking power with private family structures.
Connections:Michael Hartono
Vibes
🏦🚬
Age
84
Core
BCA
Mode
Family
Worth
~$37.7B
Quiet extraction Switzerland shipping ports private infrastructure
Co-founder/co-owner of MSC: compounding power in private shipping and terminals, with intense privacy.
Connections:Gianluigi Aponte
Receipts# Sources 1
- Wealth/control: Co-founder/co-owner of private shipping conglomerate MSC and adjacent port/terminal expansion. (Forbes)
- Wealth/control: “Administration + compounding”: stayed inside the business while scale did the rest. (Forbes)
- Person signals: Forbes describes her as self-made with direct involvement from the start (not just “shipping spouse” framing). (Forbes)
- Person signals: Consistently described as intensely out of the limelight. (Forbes)
- Person signals: Family governance style (children in senior roles) treated as defining feature of MSC story. (Forbes)
Vibes
⚓🕶️
Age
80
Role
Co-owner
Worth
~>$10B (est.)
Sanctions / convictions Syria sanctions regime-linked telecom intimidation
Sanctioned regime-linked businessman described by authorities as using state power to build exclusive licences and intimidate rivals.
Receipts# Sources 4
- Worth (estimate): Wikipedia summarises reporting describing wealth abroad estimated in excess of $10B (varies by year/source). (Wikipedia)
- Wealth/control: U.S. Treasury described him as exploiting relationships, manipulating the judicial system, and using intelligence officials to intimidate rivals while pursuing exclusive licences and contracts. (U.S. Treasury (2008))
- Wealth/control: Later Treasury materials underline “regime insider improperly benefitting” framing. (U.S. Treasury)
- Person signals: Guardian profile of his feud with Assad describes his role as country’s richest man and how businesses sat inside state/war economy. (The Guardian)
Vibes
📱🏛️
Sanctions
US Treasury
Regime
Assad-linked
Licences
Exclusive
Worth
~$45.9B
Quiet extraction Germany industry tools supply-chain private art
Industrial supply-chain billionaire with family trust control and a cultivated “founder philosophy” brand.
Receipts# Sources 4
- Wealth/control: Built Würth Group into a global fasteners/assembly empire; governance/control structured around family trusts and boards. (Würth)
- Wealth/control: Private ownership + many operating companies + distribution machine embedded into trades and industrial supply chains. (Wikipedia)
- Person signals: The company amplifies his “founder philosophy” (e.g. the “our customers’ employees” line) as guiding principle. (LinkedIn (Würth Australia))
- Person signals: Art-world footprint: Würth documents museums/exhibitions wrapped around the Würth art collection. (Würth UK)
- Person signals: Origin story commonly framed as “took over young, scaled for decades, stepped back later”. (Wikipedia)
Vibes
🔩🖼️
Age
90
Worth
~$154B
dynasty United States retail walmart dynasty usa
Walmart heir/ex-chair: inherited retail compounding into vast, quiet influence.
Connections:Jim Walton Alice Walton
Receipts# Sources 2
Vibes
🛒🏰
Age
81
Asset
Walmart
Role
Board
Worth
~$36.7B
dynasty India industry steel infrastructure
O.P. Jindal Group chair: diversified industrial wealth distributed across family control.
Vibes
🏗️👪
Age
75
Stack
Steel+Power
Mode
Family
Worth
~$245B
Quiet extraction United States tech search ads alphabet
Google co-founder: immense wealth via ownership of the world’s default attention gateway.
Connections:Larry Page
Vibes
🔍🧪
Age
52
Company
Google
Role
Founder
Worth
~$32.3B
public India tech it-services philanthropy
HCL founder: IT services compounding plus large-scale education giving.
Vibes
🧑💻🎓
Age
80
Origin
HCL
Tell
Schools
Worth
~$13.1B
Quiet extraction United Kingdom uk real-estate private dealmakers
Reuben brothers: private wealth via property, investing, and long-run dealmaking.
Connections:David Reuben
Vibes
🏗️🧾
Stack
Property
Mode
Private
Worth
~$142B
public United States tech microsoft sports nba
Ex-Microsoft CEO: compounding wealth from Microsoft equity + high-profile sports ownership.
Vibes
💻🏀
Age
69
Asset
Microsoft
Tell
NBA
Worth
~$63B
public Japan retail brands uniqlo
Fast Retailing/Uniqlo: global clothing scale with family control.
Vibes
👕🧊
Age
76
Brand
Uniqlo
Mode
Retail
Worth
?
Sanctions / convictions Myanmar sanctions junta crony-capitalism arms
Junta-connected tycoon described by authorities as a crony/arms-linked ‘financial henchman’ figure.
Receipts# Sources 2
- Wealth/control: Reuters described him currying favour with generals by trading access for contracts and import licences across sectors. (Reuters)
- Wealth/control: Control levers described as privileged licences/contracts + a network that can move money/import restricted goods. (Reuters)
- Person signals: U.S. Treasury described him as an arms dealer / “financial henchman” of a repressive junta, and later as owner of companies providing equipment/services including arms to the Burmese military. (U.S. Treasury)
- Person signals: Reuters reported “regime’s top crony” framing and quoted him boasting sanctions made him richer / generals stronger. (Reuters)
Vibes
🚫🪖
Sanctions
US Treasury
Arms
Alleged
Worth
~$0.8B (2016 est.)
Sanctions / convictions South Africa / UAE south-africa state-capture corruption-allegations interpol
‘State capture’ archetype: allegations of captured institutions, procurement extraction, and fleeing overseas.
Receipts# Sources 5
- Worth (estimate): Wikipedia summarises press estimates putting the family’s wealth in the high hundreds of millions (so “billionaire-adjacent”, but still structurally powerful). (Wikipedia)
- Wealth/control: State Capture Commission explainer points to allegations of “state capture” originating with Public Protector’s report. (State Capture Commission FAQ)
- Wealth/control: IMF summary describes evidence presented to Zondo Commission about systematic capture of state-owned entities via appointments. (IMF blog)
- Person signals: Reuters reported Interpol red notices relating to suspected fraud; Guptas deny wrongdoing. (Reuters)
- Person signals: Guardian reporting summarised allegations of bribery for contracts and influence over ministerial appointments, then fleeing to Dubai. (The Guardian)
Vibes
🏛️🕸️
Interpol
Red notices
Capture
Alleged
Denial
Denies wrongdoing
Worth
~$89.1B
Quiet extraction United States finance brokerage trading automation
Interactive Brokers founder: compounding wealth via ownership of financial-market plumbing.
Vibes
📈🤖
Age
81
Firm
IBKR
Mode
Plumbing
Worth
~$5.4B
Quiet extraction United States finance data private-companies media philanthropy
Bloomberg co-founder: private-company leverage via terminals/data moat and an unusually explicit donor persona.
Receipts# Sources 5
- Wealth/control: Ownership-plus-product lever: co-founder with executive authority; Bloomberg material highlights his leadership on core product ecosystem. (Bloomberg profile)
- Wealth/control: Private company shaping finance’s “default view of the world” without public shareholder accountability. (Bloomberg)
- Person signals: Signed the Giving Pledge; wrote a values sketch around parks/conservation, healthcare, and Jewish causes. (Giving Pledge)
- Person signals: Donor steering: $30M commitment to build an AI responsibility research centre at Binghamton (covered as alumni intervention in a field). (Forbes)
- Person signals: Profiles emphasise technologist/builder identity rather than pure exec. (Institutional Investor)
Vibes
🖥️🎁
Age
71
Giving Pledge
Signed
Worth
~$31.8B
Sanctions / convictions Russia energy oil sanctions
Lukoil founder: oil wealth built through post-Soviet industrial control.
Vibes
🛢️🧾
Age
75
Company
Lukoil
Mode
Oil
Worth
~$24.7B
Sanctions / convictions Russia mining nickel sanctions
Norilsk Nickel stake: metals power plus sanctions-era banking/assets moves.
Vibes
⛏️🎿
Age
65
Core
Nickel
Tell
Resort
Worth
~$21.5B
public China tech manufacturing ev batteries
BYD CEO: battery know-how turned into one of the world’s biggest EV platforms.
Connections:Warren Buffett
Vibes
🔋🚗
Age
59
Company
BYD
Stack
Batteries
Worth
~$149B
public United States finance holding-company berkshire insurance
Berkshire Hathaway: concentrated capital allocator with long-run ownership of major operating businesses.
Vibes
🧃📚
Age
95
Vehicle
Berkshire
Mode
Holdings
Worth
~$69.3B
Quiet extraction China tech social-media bytedance tiktok
ByteDance founder: global attention infrastructure built around recommendation systems.
Vibes
🧠📱
Age
42
Flagship
TikTok
Mode
Algorithms
Worth
~$68.9B
Quiet extraction China consumer beverages pharma
Nongfu Spring founder: consumer staples compounding into enormous quiet power.
Vibes
💧🧪
Age
71
Stack
Water+Pharma
Mode
Staples