Noah Kirsch

Vishal Garg is a billionaire, thanks to his SoftBank-backed mortgage lender Better.com. There are a lot of questions about how he got here.

#36 Giovanni Ferrero on the 2022 Billionaires - Giovanni Ferrero is executive chairman of his family’s namesake confections business, which posted $14 billion sales in 2021. The firm is best known for its iconic Nutella chocolate-hazelnut spread, Kinder chocolates and Tic Tac mints.

#883 Robert Sands on the 2022 Billionaires - Robert and Richard Sands’ father, Marvin, founded a humble wine business in 1945 at age 21. That small operation has mushroomed into a publicly-traded behemoth now called Constellation Brands, which generates over $8 billion in annual revenue.

#1341 Osman Kibar on the 2022 Billionaires - Osman Kibar is the founder and CEO of San Diego-based biotech firm Samumed. Samumed raised $438 million in August 2018 to further its work developing drugs to reverse aging, claiming a valuation of $12.4 billion.

#119 Mike Cannon-Brookes on the 2022 Billionaires - Mike Cannon-Brookes is cofounder of collaboration software firm Atlassian, based in Sydney. He and co-CEO Scott Farquhar started the company soon after graduating from college, funding it with credit cards.

#21 Paul Allen on the 2018 Forbes 400 - Paul Allen, who cofounded Microsoft with Bill Gates and later became a philanthropist and sports team owner, died on Oct. 15, 2018 at age 65. Allen left Microsoft 8 years after cofounding the company in 1975 when he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease.

#74 Masayoshi Son on the 2022 Billionaires - Masayoshi Son founded and runs mobile telecom and investment giant SoftBank Group. Investors in Son’s Vision Fund include Apple, Qualcomm, Foxconn, the family office of billionaire Larry Ellison and Saudi Arabia’s sovereign fund.

Forrest Mars, Jr. on the 2016 The Richest Person In Every State - Forrest Mars, Jr., an heir to candy giant Mars Inc., died at age 84 on July 26, 2016. At the time of his death, he was the 16th wealthiest American and 25th richest person in the world, with a net worth of more than $25 billion.

#1579 James Dinan on the 2022 Billionaires - James Dinan founded York Capital Management in 1991 and is the chairman, CEO and a managing partner of the money management firm. York Capital had $19 billion of assets under management as of July 2019.

#23 Amancio Ortega on the 2022 Billionaires - Amancio Ortega of Spain is one of the wealthiest clothing retailers in the world. A pioneer in fast fashion, he cofounded Inditex, known for its Zara fashion chain, with his ex-wife Rosalia Mera (d. 2013) in 1975.