This morning, Forbes released its annual list of the world’s billionaires. It essentially includes the entire Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans, which appears in the fall, plus another 1,026 swells from around the world. Since publication of the last Forbes 400 list in September, the Seattle-area contingent has grown by two, from eight to ten.
The newbies:
—Anne Gittinger. $1.2 billion, ranked No. 1,175. She and her brother, Bruce Nordstrom, are the biggest shareholders in department store operator Nordstrom. Bruce, 79, finally made it onto the Forbes 400 list last year (he’s on this one, too, with an unchanged net worth that matches his sister’s and also the same rank). But Forbes researchers back then apparently missed the fine print in the company proxy statement indicating that Anne, 77, had pretty much the same stash. So it fell to New To Seattle to first point this out to the world last September. The sibs are both graduates of the University of Washington.
—Gabe Newell. $1.1 billion, ranked No. 1,268. He is majority owner of Valve Corp., a Bellevue video game developer and distributor. Newell, 50, joins that grand tradition of Seattle billionaires who left school short of graduation. He bailed from Harvard. Continue reading
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