Rank #153
Charles Ergen
Net worth $18.2B
Satellite TV · United States
- Born
- Mar 01, 1953
- Age
- 73
- Source
- Satellite TV
- Residence
- Denver, Colorado
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 5
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Tennessee Knoxville; Master of Business Administration, Wake Forest University School of Business
Net worth over time
Biography
- Charlie Ergen is the cofounder and chairman of satellite and internet service company EchoStar.
- Ergen first began selling satellite dishes out of the back of a truck in Colorado in 1980.
- In 1995, EchoStar went public and also launched its first satellite, birthing pay TV subsidiary Dish Network.
- Ergen spun off Dish into a separate company in 2008 and remerged the businesses in December 2023, again under the EchoStar name.
- Today, the company has more than 7 million pay TV subscribers.
- Ergen is the son of an Austrian-born nuclear physicist who worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.
- Ergen is an avid mountain climber who has reached the Mount Everest base camp.
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