Rank #325
Arthur Blank
Net worth $10.3B
Home Depot · United States
- Born
- Sep 27, 1942
- Age
- 83
- Source
- Home Depot
- Residence
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Divorced
- Children
- 6
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Babson College
Net worth over time
Biography
- Arthur Blank and Bernie Marcus cofounded Home Depot in 1978 after being fired from their jobs at a regional hardware store.
- Blank retired as Home Depot's co-chairman in 2001 and bought the NFL's Atlanta Falcons for $545 million in 2002 (his stake's now worth $2.5 billion).
- He brought pro soccer to Atlanta with his Major League Soccer team Atlanta United FC, which started playing in March 2017.
- In August 2017, both of Blanks' teams moved into their new $1.5 billion home, Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which hosted the 2019 Super Bowl.
- In 2012, he signed the Giving Pledge and committed to give more than half of his wealth away.
- While an undergraduate at Babson College in the early 1960s, he started a landscaping and laundry pick-up service to cover his expenses.
- Blank graduated from college in three years.
- In 2019, Blank paid more than $180 million for his new 240- foot yacht, DreAMBoat (AMB are his initials).
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