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Tom Gores

Entrepreneur · born July 31, 1964

$10.1Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes

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Tom Gores is an American-Israeli billionaire businessman. He is the founder of Platinum Equity, a private equity firm headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In June 2011, Gores and Platinum Equity became the owners of the National Basketball Association's Detroit Pistons.

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2025$10.1BForbes · current

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Leon Black

Entrepreneur · Apollo Global Management · finance

1951 · United States

$13.8Bolder estimate, as of 2025 · Forbes

Leon David Black is an American private equity investor. He is the former CEO of Apollo Global Management, which he co-founded in 1990 with Marc Rowan and Josh Harris. Black was the chairman of the Museum of Modern Art from 2018 to 2021.

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Mark Cuban
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Mark Cuban

Entrepreneur

1958 · United States

Mark Cuban is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is the former principal owner and current minority owner of the Dallas Mavericks of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and co-owner of 2929 Entertainment.

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Milton Friedman
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Milton Friedman

Author

1912–2006 · United States

Milton Friedman was an American economist and statistician who received the 1976 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for his research on consumption analysis, monetary history and theory and the complexity of stabilization policy.

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Paul D. Boyer

Scientist

1918–2018 · United States

Paul Delos Boyer was an American biochemist, analytical chemist, and a professor of chemistry at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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