There’s rich, then there’s Forbes 400 rich.
It takes $2.7 billion to qualify for this year’s ranking of America’s wealthiest people. That’s down from $2.9 billion last year, but still a far cry from just a decade ago, when the cutoff for this elite group was just $1.1 billion.
That leaves plenty of famous faces behind. Oprah Winfrey (estimated net worth, $2.5 billion) is too poor. Kanye West ($2 billion) doesn’t have enough. Neither do Kim Kardashian ($1.8 billion), Michael Jordan ($1.7 billion), Peter Jackson ($1.5 billion) or Jay-Z ($1.3 billion).
The same goes for 98-year-old Charlie Munger ($2.1 billion), Warren Buffet’s longtime partner; JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon ($1.4 billion); and Tim Cook ($1.8 billion), Apple’s top boss since 2011.
In all, Forbes found more than 300 American billionaires who have ten-figure fortunes, but not enough dough to crack The Forbes 400.
Here are a handful of potential up-and-comers who might steal a spot on the list in the not-so-distant future (net worths are as of September 2, 2022).
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It takes $2.7 billion to qualify for this year’s ranking of America’s wealthiest people. That’s down from $2.9 billion last year, but still a far cry from just a decade ago, when the cutoff for this elite group was just $1.1 billion.
That leaves plenty of famous faces behind. Oprah Winfrey (estimated net worth, $2.5 billion) is too poor. Kanye West ($2 billion) doesn’t have enough. Neither do Kim Kardashian ($1.8 billion), Michael Jordan ($1.7 billion), Peter Jackson ($1.5 billion) or Jay-Z ($1.3 billion).
The same goes for 98-year-old Charlie Munger ($2.1 billion), Warren Buffet’s longtime partner; JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon ($1.4 billion); and Tim Cook ($1.8 billion), Apple’s top boss since 2011.
In all, Forbes found more than 300 American billionaires who have ten-figure fortunes, but not enough dough to crack The Forbes 400.
Here are a handful of potential up-and-comers who might steal a spot on the list in the not-so-distant future (net worths are as of September 2, 2022).
Oprah, Kanye, Charlie Munger: The American Billionaires Too Poor To Make The 2022 Forbes 400
These billionaires are too poor to make the cut–for now.
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