Rank #905
Dan Snyder
Net worth $4.7B
Washington Commanders · United States
- Born
- Nov 23, 1964
- Age
- 61
- Source
- Washington Commanders
- Residence
- Potomac, Maryland
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 3
- Education
- Drop Out, University of Maryland
Net worth over time
Biography
- Dan Snyder initially made his fortune with a marketing business, Snyder Communications, that he started as a college dropout.
- After taking the company public in 1996, Snyder sold it to French firm Havas for $2.1 billion in stock in 2000.
- In 1999, he bought the NFL's Washington Commanders for $750 million, borrowing $350 million to do so. He sold the franchise for $6.05 billion in 2023.
- After years of controversy over the Native American origins of the team's former name, the Redskins, Snyder renamed the team the Commanders in 2022.
- In 2019, Snyder made waves with his new $192 million yacht Lady S, which has an IMAX theater.
- Snyder cleaned and mopped the floors at the cafeteria inside the National Institute for Health as a high school student.
- In 1996, Snyder was the youngest public-company CEO on the New York Stock Exchange.
- Snyder dropped out of college to start a business chartering planes to fly college kids to sporting events. By 20 he was a millionaire.