Rank #451
J. Joe Ricketts & family
Net worth $8.0B
TD Ameritrade · United States
- Born
- Jul 16, 1941
- Age
- 84
- Source
- TD Ameritrade
- Residence
- Little Jackson Hole, Wyoming
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 4
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Creighton University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Online stock trading pioneer Joe Ricketts founded brokerage firm Ameritrade five decades ago in Omaha, Nebraska and took it public in 1997.
- His company acquired TD Waterhouse for $2.9 billion in stock and cash in 2006 and renamed itself TD Ameritrade.
- In 2019, competitor Charles Schwab announced it would acquire TD Ameritrade in a $26 billion deal.
- Ricketts retired from the board of directors of TD Ameritrade in 2011 but remained its largest individual shareholder until it was acquired.
- In 2014, he funded the construction of religious silent retreat center, the Cloisters on the Platte, in Nebraska.
- His four children are the majority owners of the Chicago Cubs, which won the World Series in 2016 for the first time in 108 years.
- It took Ricketts nine years to graduate from Creighton University because he periodically had to stop and earn money to pay his tuition.
- Ricketts? son, Pete, was sworn in as a Nebraska senator in January 2023 ? he previously served as governor of the state.
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