CEO
Barry Diller Net Worth
Barry Diller's Net Worth as of 2024
$2.7 billion
Barry Charles Diller, born on the 2nd of February 1942, is an American businessman who became a corporate giant for reviving dying companies. He is now the Chairman and Senior Executive of InterActiveCorp and the travel website Expedia, Inc.
So how much is Diller’s net worth? As of mid-2016, it is reported to be $2.7 billion, acquired from his years working in television and on the internet, buying and selling various companies and making a profit.
Barry Diller Net Worth$2.7 billion
Born in San Francisco, California, Diller is the son of Reva and Michael. He grew up in a Jewish household, but is not in to studying. After finishing high school, he entered the University of California, Los Angeles but left before completing a year.
Diller was able to get a job at William Morris Agency, working in the mailroom. He trained himself by reading everything that goes into the mail, such as memos, contracts and the like. Soon, he was promoted to secretary and later on to a junior agent. Although he started as a rank-and-file employee, his career at the agency started his net worth and his career.
In 1966, his career working in the world of television started when he was hired as the personal assistant of Leonard Goldberg, who was about to become head of programming of the network ABC, and he tagged Diller along as his assistant. His work was recognized by other executives of ABC, and he was later on promoted to become vice-president in charge for Circle Entertainment, a division of ABC. He revived the dying network by producing shows including “ABC’s Movie of the Week” and a number of mini-series. The work he did in ABC made him a corporate icon, and tremendously helped his net worth.
In 1974, Diller was hired by Paramount Pictures to revive the dying company. He produced movies and television series that became blockbuster hits and helped the company with their finances. Movies like “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “48 Hours” are some of the top grossing films of all time that he produced.
After leaving Paramount Pictures, Diller was then hired by Twentieth Century-Fox Corporation to do the same thing he did with Paramount, help them with their financial woes. He made drastic changes in the company, from their budgets to their scheduling and eventually the company thrived. He produced a number of shows that helped the network boost audience numbers, such as “The Simpsons”, “Cops”, and “21 Jump Street”. His years working in the world of television made him very popular in the corporate world, and increased his wealth immensely.
Diller later bought QVC, and also sold it. His experience in QVC led him to purchasing Silver King Communications which owns Home Shopping Network. He then turned it into an interactive commerce company, and called it InterActiveCorp. IAC became one of his most successful ventures, and under IAC are a number of popular companies that people from all over the world use, including Expedia, About.com, Dictionary.Com and Investopedia. All of which are very successful and help maintain his wealth.
In terms of Diller’s personal life, he has been married to famous fashion designer, Diane Von Fürstenberg since 2001.
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Mark Zuckerberg Net Worth
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg was born on 14 May 1984, in White Plains, New York State USA into a Jewish family. He is known for making billions of dollars at a very young age. However, even if a lot of people are jealous and sceptical about Mark, they should admit that not only does he deserve all that he has, but also respect and admiration for being smart and inventive. He has created a virtual empire which we all acknowledge nowadays: is there anyone in the world who has not heard of Facebook!
So how rich is Mark Zuckerberg? According to Forbes Magazine and Bloomberg’s Billionaires list, Zuckerberg‘s net worth is estimated at $56 billion as of early-2017, making him the seventh richest person in the world, up from 15th just nine months earlier. What strikes as most comic is that Mark has a salary of only $1 dollar per year as CEO of Facebook, however, that doesn‘t stop him from being a self-made billionaire, now head of a company ranked in the 10 largest in the world, valued at $275 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg Net Worth $56 Billion
Mark was indeed an ‘A’ grade student, apparently excelling in many subjects when at Ardsley High School, ranging from physics to classics. However, above Mark‘s interest in computers stands his father. He introduced Mark to computers and wanted him to take an interest in them. Edward Zuckerberg taught his son Atari BASIC programming and later hired a software developer to train Mark privately once a week. According to David Newman, the above-mentioned tutor, the kid was unbelievably talented and soon left his teacher standing and breathless. When Zuckerberg joined the community of Harvard University, he already had a reputation as a programming genius, because “Facebook” wasn‘t actually the first convenient and useful program he had developed. His works, such as Synapse Media Player, CourseMatch and Facemash received a lot of attention and popularity. Still they cannot rate with Facebook.
Unsurprisingly, a person who begins a world-wide revolution of communication faces a lot of problems, difficulties, intrigues and scandals. Mark was accused by his former friends, the Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, of stealing their ideas. The brothers actually dreamed of building a connection between all the students of Harvard University. As we all know now, Mark improved this idea by enlarging the range of people who were allowed to use this social network. So, the accusations were at least true in part and Zuckerberg was forced to give away 1.2m Facebook shares to them. Thus there‘s always a bright side of things – the company that Mark set up has made a lot of people wealthy, not just him alone.
Regardless, according to Vanity Fair magazine, Zuckerberg was the most influential person of the Information Age in 2010. That‘s surprising because a year before he ranked only at number 23 on the same list. What‘s more, not only does Vanity Fair consider Mark as the world‘s most influential in this relatively new industry, but also New Statesman. In 2010, they ranked him as number 16 in the top 50 of the world’s most important figures. “Facebook” is considered to be the biggest social networking website on the planet, used by people of all ages, sex or nationality. Zuckerberg is respected because all he had to create such a network were his ideas and fingers that instinctively knew what to press on a keyboard.
Even though Mark Elliot Zuckerberg lost all of his friends and it doesn‘t seem that he‘s ever going to regain them, he at least has a reliable source of income – Facebook, of course. All the other similar companies that Facebook has obtained recently such as Instagram, WhatsApp, and some more must also be taken into account.
In his personal life, Mark Zuckerberg married Priscilla Chan in 2012, having met her originally in 2002. Aside from his career, Mark is a noted philanthropist, particularly to educational projects. In 2010, he joined with Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in promising to donate half of his wealth to charity over time. In 2013 he donated shares valued at $990 million to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the following year $25 million towards combating the ebola disease.
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Frank Lowy Net Worth
Frank Lowy was born on the 22nd October 1930 in Fiľakovo, now Slovakia, of Jewish origin and is an Australian entrepreneur. Lowy founded and led the Australian retail company the Westfield Group. According to US Forbes Magazine, Lowy is one of the richest Australians, having been active in business since 1952. Lowy was also the president of the Football (soccer) Federation of Australia from 2003until 2015.
How much is the net worth of Frank Lowy? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of his wealth is as much as $5.1 billion, as of the data presented in the middle of 2017 Westfield Corporation is the major source of Lowy net worth. It should be noted that Frank has been listed in Financial Review Rich List every year since 1983. In 2010, he became the richest person in Australia with the estimated net worth of A$5.04 billion at the time.
Frank Lowy Net Worth $5.1 Billion
To begin with, the boy was born in Slovakia, but lived in a ghetto in Hungary in the time of World War II. In 1946, he managed to escape and reached France, where he boarded a ship and wanted to reach Palestine, but was caught and detained by the British in a camp in Cyprus. However, he managed to serve in the Jewish paramilitary organization Golani Brigade, and participated in the Israeli – Arab War in 1948.
His family was based in Hungary and had a small business, and in 1952, Lowy joined them and they all migrated to Australia. In 1960, he founded the company which is currently entitled Westfield Corporation Limited, in Sydney, Australia, developing shopping centers which even operated in the US from 1977. The company continued to specialize in shopping centres, and the Westfield Group now owns and operates shopping centres in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US. All the shopping centres are advertised with the brand Westfield or Westfield Shoppingtown. Those have added significant sums to the overall size of Frank Lowy net worth.
From the beginning of the company until 2010, Lowy held the position of executive chairman of the Westfield Group; currently, he serves as the non – executive chairman. From 2008 to 2010, he and his company became the focus of a US tax investigation, after Swiss and Liechtenstein accounts were discovered – no wrong-doing was discovered.
Additionally, he served as the director of the Reserve Bank of Australia from 1995 to 2005. Significantly involved in the development of soccer in Australia, Lowy was the president of the Football Federation Australia from 2003 to 2015, succeeded by his son.
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2000, and in 2005, Lowy received the Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship. Several years later, the businessman was honoured with the Henni Friedlander Award, among a number of other awards and honours.
Finally, in the personal life of Frank Lowy, he is married to Shirley Lowy, who he met in 1951. They have three sons: Peter, Steven, and David who took over the lead of Westfield. Currently, Frank resides in Point Piper, Sydney, Australia. Since 2003, he is also owner of the mega-yacht Ilona. It is Lowy’s fourth yacht, and he has travelled around the world four times. However, the family is involved in philanthropy too, with a particular interest in cancer research and treatment.
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