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America's "40 Richest Under 40"

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Steve Currie

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Apr 28, 2001, 10:26:37 PM4/28/01
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Master P at number 28, one ahead of Michael Jordan. How can he be this rich
when he makes films like "I Got The Hook Up"?


Rank Name Company Wealth Age
1 Michael Dell Dell Computer $21.49 billion 34
2 Jeff Bezos Amazon.com $5.74 billion 35
3 Ted Waitt Gateway $5.44 billion 36
4 Pierre Omidyar eBay $3.69 billion 32
5 David Filo Yahoo! $3.12 billion 33
6 Jerry Yang Yahoo! $3.05 billion 30
7 Henry Nicholas III Broadcom $2.38 billion 39
8 Rob Glaser RealNetworks $2.29 billion 37
9 Scott Blum Buy.com $1.66 billion 35
10 Jeff Skoll eBay $1.35 billion 33
11 Michael Robertson MP3.com $903 million 32
12 Naveen Jain InfoSpace.com $861 million 39
13 Marc Ewing Red Hat $775 million 30
14 Michael Saylor MicroStrategy $695 million 34
15 Joe Liemandt Trilogy Software $523 million 31
16 Todd Wagner broadcast.com $514 million 39
17 Kenneth Tuchman TeleTech Holdings $487 million 39
18 Kevin O'Connor DoubleClick $455 million 38
19 Eric Brewer Inktomi $454 million 32
20 Jeong Kim Yurie Systems $429 million 39
21 Paul Gauthier Inktomi $418 million 26
22 Jerry Greenberg Sapient $413 million 33
23 Stuart Moore Sapient $404 million 37
24 Shelby Bonnie CNET $403 million 35
25 Robert Bernard Whittman-Hart $402.9 million 38
26 John Schnatter Papa John's Intl $402.6 million 37
27 Daniel Snyder Snyder Commun $390 million 34
28 Master P (Percy Miller) No Limit Ent $361 million 29
29 Michael Jordan former Chicago Bull $357 million 36
30 Eric Greenberg Scient $355 million 35
31 Halsey Minor CNET $354.9 million 34
32 Sanjay Kumar Computer Associat $335 million 37
33 Jeffrey Arnold WebMD $321 million 29
34 Raul Fernandez Proxicom $287 million 33
35 Jim Breyer Accel Partners $279 million 38
36 Kevin Harvey Benchmark Capital $278 million 35
37 Toby Lenk eToys $276 million 37
38 Stephen Feinberg Cerberus Capital $274 million 39
39 Mukesh Chatter Nexabit Networks $250 million 39
40 Chan Suh Agency.com $245 million 38


Teck

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Apr 28, 2001, 11:15:15 PM4/28/01
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ive come to the conclusion that after spending about $3 or 4 million i'd be
out of things i wanted, if i even managed to spend that much... i know
there's people with even more money, but even so, i cant fathom what the
fuck i'd do with $21.94 billion, or even $245 million. i remember hearing
something about how if bill gates dropped a pretty chunk of money on the
ground (forget how much, think it was in the tens of thousands range though,
maybe hundreds but i doubt it) it wouldn't even be worth his time to stop
and pick it up. shit, if i drop a $5 on the ground im chasing that
motherfucker down


they dont call it the american DREAM for nothing,
teck


KSG

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Apr 28, 2001, 11:54:12 PM4/28/01
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That's actually an old list. In the most up to date list, Master P is no
longer in it, but Mike is (just barely at #40). This most recent list is
still like six months old, and we have all seen where many tech company
stocks have gone in the past six months. Anyways here is the more recent
list:

Rank Name Age Company Net Worth
1 Michael Dell 35
Dell Computer Corporation $17,080 million
2 Ted Waitt 37
Gateway, Inc. $8,540 million
3 David Filo 34
Yahoo $6,030 million
4 Jerry Yang 31
Yahoo $5,850 million
5 Jeff Bezos 36
Amazon.Com, Inc. $4,050 million
6 Pierre Omidyar 33
eBay $3,440 million
7 Rob Glaser 38
RealNetworks $2,270 million
8 Jeff Skoll 35
eBay $2,160 million
9 Vinny Smith 36
Quest Software $1,093 million
10 Monte Zweben 36
Blue Martini Software $1,690 million
11 Jerry Greenberg 34
Sapient $1,470 million
12 J. Stuart Moore 38
Sapient $1,370 million
13 Greg Reyes 38
Brocade Communications Systems $1,030 million
14 Rob DeSantis 37
Ariba Inc. $989 million
15 Michael Saylor 35
Microstrategy $902 million
16 Jeff Mallett 36
Yahoo $805 million
17 David Doyle 39
Quest Software $792 million
18 Rick Barry 34
Sycamore Networks $710 million
19 Paul Gauthier 27
Inktomi $693 million
20 Peter Bell 36
StorageNetworks $658 million
21 Sehat Sutardja 39
Marvell Technology $648 million
21 Weili Dai 39
Marvell Technology $648 million
23 Jeet Singh 37
Art Technology Group $632 million
24 Jeffrey Citron 30
Datek Online $627 million
25 James T. Demetriades 37
Software Technologies $622 million
26 Joseph Chung 35
Art Technology Group $621 million
27 Pantas Sutardja 37
Marvell Technology $611 million
28 Eric Greenberg 36
Scient $603 million
29 Farzad Nazem 38
Yahoo $601 million
30 Danny Lewin 30
Akamai Technologies $591 million
31 Joe Liemandt 32
Trilogy Software $577 million
32 Raul Fernandez 34
Proxicom $573 million
33 Dan Snyder 35
Snyder Communications $540 million
34 Jim Breyer 39
Accel Partners $531 million
35 Navdeep Sooch 37
Silicon Laboratories $522 million
36 Simon Cao 37
Avanex $516 million
37 Marc Andreessen 29
Loudcloud $498 million
38 Rick Tinsley 36
Turnstone Systems $448 million
39 Kingston Duffie 39
Turnstone Systems $443 million
40 Michael Jordan 37
Washington Wizards $431 million


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Josh Scott

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Apr 29, 2001, 12:55:58 AM4/29/01
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"Steve Currie" <Steve....@nospam.btinternet.com> wrote:

> Master P at number 28, one ahead of Michael Jordan. How can he be this
rich
> when he makes films like "I Got The Hook Up"?

First off, his whole rap roster goes atleast gold, with most going platinum.
He's owns the company, so he gets most of the money those make. He has a
whole movie company. He has a real estate company. He has a cellphone
service company (No Limit Communications), he has a clothing line, and more.

BTW, a lot of people liked "I Got The Hook Up", including myself.

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Ralph Barbagallo

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Apr 29, 2001, 4:48:29 AM4/29/01
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Well, when you make a movie that costs 3.5 mil, you don't a lot of people to
see it to break even. The movie did like 10 mil, so he made a tidy little
sum off of that. And when you can crank out as many of these little low
budget 'gems' as he can--well hey, it's all about volume.

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Andrew Friedman

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Apr 29, 2001, 12:55:36 PM4/29/01
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he may be a terrible emcee, but he's a smart business man

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Andrew Friedman, alfr...@artsci.wustl.edu

Big AL aka Amokachi

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Apr 29, 2001, 2:35:51 PM4/29/01
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Ralph Barbagallo <fla...@spamnyet.pacbell.net> wrote in message
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> Well, when you make a movie that costs 3.5 mil, you don't a lot of people
to
> see it to break even. The movie did like 10 mil, so he made a tidy little
> sum off of that. And when you can crank out as many of these little low
> budget 'gems' as he can--well hey, it's all about volume.

And all of his films rent very well!
He makes films that people prefer to watch at home, and the home video
market is massive!
Simple as that!
I say well done to him!

Peace
Big AL

Josh Scott

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Apr 29, 2001, 5:33:45 PM4/29/01
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"Andrew Friedman" <alfr...@artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:

> he may be a terrible emcee, but he's a smart business man

The thing is though...Master P DOES have some talent, but he rarely shows
it, especially anymore...but there have been some songs where he rips the
mic...


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Steve 'Flash' Juon

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Apr 29, 2001, 7:11:52 PM4/29/01
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In article <mHQG6.124$wm6.2...@news.pacbell.net>,
fla...@spamnyet.pacbell.net says...

> Well, when you make a movie that costs 3.5 mil, you don't a lot of people to
> see it to break even. The movie did like 10 mil, so he made a tidy little
> sum off of that. And when you can crank out as many of these little low
> budget 'gems' as he can--well hey, it's all about volume.

True dat. Make a movie for a mill' and recoup that alone the ticket
sales - not to mention home video, soundtracks, overseas licensing.
P knows exactly what the fuck he's doing; his biz is bout it bout it.

Peace, Flash

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Steve Jackson

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Apr 29, 2001, 11:05:12 PM4/29/01
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I'm wondering hom many of the dotcom cats are rich based off of stock
options. Definitely Bezos (Amazon.com) 'cause they've been losing $$$
for a quick minute. Stocks and physical $$$ are not necessarily
synonymous. Dern, I wish I new more about that isht.

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RIP Dale Earnhardt, Sr.

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not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not
destroyed."
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Steve Jaros

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May 2, 2001, 9:37:00 AM5/2/01
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"Andrew Friedman" <alfr...@artsci.wustl.edu> wrote in message
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> he may be a terrible emcee, but he's a smart business man

Not so smart lately. If you look at the first chart, he has 361 million, and
then he's not on the most recent one, which bottoms at 245 million. So he's
lost at least 1/3 of his wealth in the past year or so....


KSG

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May 2, 2001, 10:21:25 AM5/2/01
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"Steve Jaros" <sja...@home.com> wrote in message
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The newest one bottoms at $431 million (at least the newest one that I've
seen). The old one bottomed at $245 million. But you're right that he
dropped out of the top 40 though.

KSG


Steve Jaros

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May 2, 2001, 5:45:08 PM5/2/01
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> The newest one bottoms at $431 million (at least the newest one that I've
> seen). The old one bottomed at $245 million.

I see ... my mistake.


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