Rank #288
John Malone
Net worth $11.2B
Cable television · United States
- Born
- Mar 07, 1941
- Age
- 85
- Source
- Cable television
- Residence
- Elizabeth, Colorado
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Doctorate, Johns Hopkins University; Master of Science, Johns Hopkins University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Yale University
Net worth over time
Biography
- Nicknamed the Cable Cowboy, John Malone is known for his penchant for media deals and complicated corporate structures.
- From the 1970s to the 1990s, Malone built up cable TV firm TCI as right hand man to founder Bob Magness (d. 1996).
- Malone became the CEO of TCI in 1973 at 29 years old, then sold the firm to AT&T for more than $50 billion in 1999.
- His Liberty Media closed a $4.4 billion acquisition of auto-racing league Formula 1 in January 2017.
- Malone retired from the board of telecom giant Charter Communications in 2018 and in 2025 stepped down from the board of Warner Bros.
- The Connecticut native is the nation's second biggest individual landowner, with over two million acres across seven states.
- Malone has a doctorate in operations research from Johns Hopkins, and started off his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories.
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