89 Californians worth $1.1 trillion on Forbes wealthiest Americans list

If you think California has lots of really-really rich folks, you’re correct!

My trusty spreadsheet’s review of 2021’s edition of the Forbes 400 — the venerable roster of America’s wealthiest people — found 89 Californians listed are worth a combined $1.105 trillion.

How much money is that? Well, it’s roughly equal to $3,300 for all 330 million Americans or $135 for each of the 8 billion residents of this planet.

These Golden Staters own nest eggs equal to almost one-quarter of the $4.5 trillion total worth of all members of the 400 — a club that required a minimum of $2.9 billion per person to make the cut. (Former president Donald Trump missed the mark, by the way!)https://f05f6b947290c9d9b54e70a4e0c3b7e8.safeframe.googlesyndication.com/safeframe/1-0-38/html/container.html

Or you could buy every private home in Virginia at the start of 2021. Or every residence in nine states combined — North Dakota, Wyoming, South Dakota, Alaska, Vermont, West Virginia, Delaware, District of Columbia, Rhode Island and Nebraska.

And only six public companies in the world are trillion-dollar-plus firms: Apple, Microsoft, Saudi Aramco, Alphabet (Google) and Amazon.

It’s should come as no surprise that the Golden State’s members at the of top this exclusive list are all tech titans — Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Dustin Moskovitz and Google’s Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Eric Schmidt.

The fortunes cited by Forbes also include folks enriched by two legacy industries in California: Hollywood and real estate. Entertainment titans include David Geffen, George Lucas, Reed Hastings, Steven Spielberg and Haim Saban and real estate’s Donald Bren, Rick Caruso, Jean Pritzker, Anthony Pritzker and Edward Roski Jr.

Some well-known consumer-goods brands also created riches that qualify for the 400 list: Marijke Mars (Mars candy), Gary Friedman (Restoration Hardware), Lynsi Snyder (In-N-Out Burger), Rodney Sacks (Monster energy drinks) and John Fisher (Gap).

By the way, the top two fortunes are folks very familiar to Californians: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos was tops at $201 billion with ex-Californian Elon Musk right behind at $190.5 billion. The founder of Tesla and SpaceX now claims to be a Texan.

Note: The 89 listed Californians had an average $11.4 billion in assets, a bounty that would have ranked as the No. 63 individual fortune on this year’s Forbes list.

Courtesy of the magazine’s research, here are the 89 wealthiest Californians — in order of their U.S. ranking among the 400, their age, wealth (as of Sept.3) and where all that money came from …

No. 3: Mark Zuckerberg (37), $134.5 billion from Facebook

No. 5: Larry Page (48), $123 billion from Google

No. 6: Sergey Brin (48), $118.5 billion from Google

No. 29: Dustin Moskovitz (37), $24.1 billion from Facebook

No. 30: Eric Schmidt (66), $23.9 billion from Google

No. 33: Laurene Powell Jobs and family (57), $22.1 billion from Apple, Disney

No. 34: Jensen Huang (58), $21.3 billion from semiconductors

No. 38: Robert Pera (43), $19 billion from wireless networking gear

No. 46: Donald Bren (89), $16.2 billion from Irvine Co. real estate

No. 51: John Doerr (70), $15.2 billion from venture capital

No. 51: Bobby Murphy (33), $15.2 billion from Snapchat

No. 53: Jack Dorsey (44), $14.9 billion from Twitter, Square

No. 54: Eric Yuan and family (51), $14.5 billion from Zoom Video Communications

No. 55: Evan Spiegel (31), $13.8 billion from Snapchat

No. 57: Brian Chesky (40), $12.5 billion from Airbnb

No. 60: Brian Armstrong (38), $11.5 billion from cryptocurrency

No. 60: Charles Schwab (84), $11.5 billion from discount brokerage

No. 65: Jan Koum (45), $10.9 billion from WhatsApp

No. 66: Joe Gebbia (40), $10.8 billion from Airbnb

No. 66: Gordon Moore (92), $10.8 billion from Intel

No. 71: David Geffen (78), $10.5 billion from movies, record labels

No. 74: Marc Benioff (57), $10.2 billion from business software

No. 75: Steven Rales (70), $10.1 billion from manufacturing

No. 76: Nathan Blecharczyk (38), $10 billion from Airbnb

No. 88: George Roberts (78), $9 billion from private equity

No. 89: Patrick Soon-Shiong (69), $8.9 billion from pharmaceuticals

No. 92: Vinod Khosla (66), $8.6 billion from venture capital

No. 98: Jack Dangermond (76), $8.4 billion from mapping software

No. 107: Douglas Leone (64), $8.1 billion from venture capital

No. 108: Marijke Mars (57), $8 billion from candy, pet food

No. 108: Stewart and Lynda Resnick (N/A), $8 billion from agriculture, water

No. 124: George Lucas (77), $7.2 billion from Star Wars

No. 124: Michael Moritz (67), $7.2 billion from venture capital

No. 133: Ken Xie (58), $7 billion from cybersecurity

No. 134: Anthony Wood (55), $6.9 billion from Roku

No. 138: Jeff Skoll (56), $6.8 billion from eBay

No. 141: David Sun (69), $6.7 billion from Kingston memory chips

No. 141: John Tu (80), $6.7 billion from Kingston memory chips

No. 146: Henry Samueli (67), $6.6 billion from Broadcom semiconductors

No. 151: Meg Whitman (65), $6.4 billion from eBay

No. 161: Antony Ressler (59), $6.2 billion from finance

No. 168: Edward Roski, Jr. (82), $6.1 billion from real estate

No. 168: John A. Sobrato and family (82), $6.1 billion from real estate

No. 172: Chris Larsen (61), $6 billion from cryptocurrency

No. 176: Scott Cook (69), $5.9 billion from software

No. 176: Tom Gores (57), $5.9 billion from private equity

No. 182: Peter Gassner (56), $5.8 billion from software

No. 182: Henry Nicholas, III. (61), $5.8 billion from Broadcom semiconductors

No. 188: Reed Hastings (60), $5.7 billion from Netflix

No. 195: David Baszucki (58), $5.6 billion from Roblox online gaming

No. 195: Dagmar Dolby and family (80), $5.6 billion from Dolby Laboratories

No. 195: Eric Smidt (61), $5.6 billion from Harbor Freight Tools

No. 200: Don Hankey (78), $5.5 billion from auto loans

No. 206: Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer (59), $5.2 billion from Cargill

No. 209: Jeff Tangney (49), $5.1 billion from healthcare IT

No. 224: Jeff Rothschild (66), $4.8 billion from Facebook

No. 229: Rupert Johnson, Jr. (81), $4.7 billion from Franklin Templeton money management

No. 247: Gary Friedman (64), $4.5 billion from Restoration Hardware

No. 253: Jeff T. Green (44), $4.4 billion from online advertising

No. 261: Rick Caruso (62), $4.3 billion from real estate

No. 269: Lynsi Snyder (39), $4.2 billion from In-N-Out Burger

No. 273: Thomas Siebel (68), $4.1 billion from business software

No. 273: Peter Thiel (53), $4.1 billion from Facebook, investments

No. 273: Steven Udvar-Hazy (75), $4.1 billion from aircraft leasing

No. 289: Jean (Gigi) Pritzker (59), $3.9 billion from hotels, investments

No. 289: Donald Sterling (87), $3.9 billion from real estate

No. 289: Michael Xie (52), $3.9 billion from cybersecurity

No. 300: Michael Milken (75), $3.8 billion from investments

No. 310: Anthony Pritzker (60), $3.7 billion from hotels, investments

No. 310: Steven Spielberg (74), $3.7 billion from movies

No. 318: David Filo (55), $3.6 billion from Yahoo

No. 318: Jay Paul (74), $3.6 billion from real estate

No. 333: Archie Aldis Emmerson and family (92), $3.5 billion from timberland, lumber mills

No. 333: Romesh T. Wadhwani (74), $3.5 billion from software

No. 340: Behdad Eghbali (45), $3.4 billion from private equity

No. 340: Jose E. Feliciano (48), $3.4 billion from private equity

No. 340: RJ Scaringe (38), $3.4 billion from Rivian electric trucks

No. 340: Jerry Yang (52), $3.4 billion from Yahoo

No. 358: Ben Silbermann (39), $3.3 billion from social media

No. 363: Aneel Bhusri (55), $3.2 billion from business software

No. 363: Alice Schwartz (95), $3.2 billion from biotech

No. 368: Haim Saban (76), $3.1 billion from TV network, investments

No. 368: Rodney Sacks (71), $3.1 billion from Monster energy drinks

No. 377: Neal Blue and family (86), $3 billion from defense

No. 377: Jed McCaleb (46), $3 billion from cryptocurrency

No. 389: Riley Bechtel and family (69), $2.9 billion from engineering, construction

No. 389: Baiju Bhatt (36), $2.9 billion from Robinhood stock trading app

No. 389: John Fisher (60), $2.9 billion from Gap

No. 389: Paul Sciarra (40), $2.9 billion from Pinterest

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