These Are The Wealthiest Families In America

Published on 05/19/2019
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The Samueli Family – $3.8B

Broadcom Corporation produced some of the world’s most cutting edge electronics components and semiconductors and is owned by Henry Samueli. While he was a UCLA professor, he co-founded the company, which was initially set up for around ten grand and rocketed to success in just a few years. Samueli, who is now a billionaire, used his money to buy the NHL team Anaheim Ducks, and one of the biggest changes he has done to the team was relocating it to San Diego. The many ventures he has established continue to grow the empire of his family with each passing year.

The Samueli Family - $3.8B

The Samueli Family – $3.8B

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The Kordestani Family – $1.4B

In the early 1990s, Iranian-born Omid Kordestani came across one of the tremendous opportunities in tech history when the electrical engineering genius began running sales and business development at Netscape. Almost every Internet company in the world noticed him, and Google soon got him as their Chief Business Officer. He is credited for turning Google into an international powerhouse in the late 2000s, but his biggest venture was when he got appointed as Twitter’s Executive Chairman in 2015. Kordestani continues to serve there today, and his several high-stakes positions in companies that are some of the biggest in the tech world have made him, along with his family, insanely wealthy.

The Kordestani Family - $1.4B

The Kordestani Family – $1.4B

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