Forbes: 99 Calif. Billionaires Are Among The Richest In America

CALIFORNIA — America’s richest keep getting richer. The wealthiest Americans on the annual Forbes 400 list grew their combined net worth by just over 2 percent from the previous year, making them worth $2.96 trillion in 2019.

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, is once again at the top of the list. His ex-wife, Mackenzie Bezos, who got 25 percent of the couple’s shares in Amazon as part of their divorce settlement, is now the 15th richest person in America, according to the list.

In California, 99 people were among the 400 richest in America in 2019.

According to Forbes, the minimum net worth to qualify for the list is $2.1 billion. The average wealth of those on the list increased by $200 million to $7.4 billion, Forbes writes.

With the vast amounts of wealth in the pockets of those on the exclusive list, Forbes notes that a number of high-profile billionaires such as Kylie Jenner and Michael Jordan, didn’t even make the list.

Here are the California billionaires on the list:

1. Mark Zuckerberg
2. Larry Ellison
3. Larry Page
4. Sergey Brin
5. Laurene Powell Jobs & family
6. Elon Musk
7. Donald Bren
8. Eric Schmidt
9. Dustin Moskovitz
10. Gordon Moore
11. Jan Koum
12. Stewart and Lynda Resnick
13. David Geffen
14. Charles Schwab
15. John Doerr
16. Marijke Mars
17. Steven Rales
18. Eli Broad
19. John A. Sobrato & family
20. Patrick Soon-Shiong
21. Marc Benioff
22. Robert Pera
23. George Lucas
24. George Roberts
25. Tom Gores
26. Edward Roski, Jr.
27. David Sun
28. John Tu
29. Jeff Skoll
30. Henry Samueli
31. Jack Dangermond
32. David Filo
33. Nathan Blecharczyk
34. Rick Caruso
35. Brian Chesky
36. Dagmar Dolby & family
37. Jack Dorsey
38. Joe Gebbia
39. Jensen Huang
40. Neal Blue & family
41. Henry Nicholas, III
42. Sumner Redstone
43. Eric Smidt
44. Steven Udvar-Hazy
45. Rupert Johnson, Jr.
46. Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer
47. Anthony Wood
48. Douglas Leone
49. Donald Sterling
50. Michael Milken
51. Bobby Murphy
52. Meg Whitman
53. Jay Chaudhry
54. Lynsi Snyder
55. Evan Spiegel
56. Steven Spielberg
57. Scott Cook
58. Reed Hastings
59. Travis Kalanick
60. Michael Moritz
61. Jay Paul
62. Anthony Pritzker
63. Romesh T. Wadhwani
64. Jean (Gigi) Pritzker
65. Don Hankey
66. Orlando Bravo
67. Thomas Siebel
68. Jeff Rothschild
69. Haim Saban
70. Archie Aldis Emmerson & family
71. Richard Peery
72. Antony Ressler
73. Peter Gassner
74. Sean Parker
75. Mark Stevens
76. Oprah Winfrey
77. Jim Coulter
78. John Pritzker
79. Jerry Yang
80. Brian Acton
81. George Argyros & family
82. John Arrillaga
83. Riley Bechtel & family
84. Stephen Bechtel, Jr.
85. Jim Breyer
86. John Fisher
87. Daniel Pritzker
88. Doris Fisher
89. Evan Williams
90. Peter Thiel
91. Aneel Bhusri
92. Bruce Karsh
93. Nicholas Pritzker, II
94. Kavitark Ram Shriram
95. Gordon Getty
96. Alec Gores
97. Jeffrey Gundlach
98. Vinod Khosla
99. Chris Larsen

The top 10 richest people in America for 2019 are:

• Jeff Bezos: $114 billion
• Bill Gates: $106 billion
• Warren Buffett: $80.8 billion
• Mark Zuckerberg: $69.6 billion
• Larry Ellison: $65 billion
• Larry Page: $55.5 billion
• Sergey Brin: $53.5 billion
• Michael Bloomberg: $53.4 billion
• Steve Ballmer: $51.7 billion
• Jim Walton: $51.6 billion

See the full list and read more via Forbes.