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Meet the Boston Billionaires on Forbes' Fortune 400
Even in a city with some seriously wealthy people, these three are the richest of the rich.
BOSTON, MA — Three of Boston's wealthiest individuals live in the urban heart of the Bay State, and boast $13 billion between them.
The scary part? They're not even the richest in the state, let alone the country, according to the recently released Forbes 400, a list of the country's richest.
Meanwhile, here's Boston's, and how they ranked on the national list, according to Forbes:
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- No. 68 - Edward Johnson III, worth $7.1 billion, is the chairman of Fidelity. He graduated from Harvard.
- No. 214 - Amos Hostetter Jr., worth $3.1 billion, "made a fortune in the 1990s as cable TV pioneer." He has degrees from Amherst and Harvard.
- No. 374 - Phillip Ragon, of Boston, worth $1.8 billion, owns Cambridge-based InterSystems, which Forbes says sells software enabling hospitals and banks to analyze big data. Ragon graduated from nearby MIT.
You can find the rest of the Bay State's billionaires here.
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