Rank #630
Marcos Galperin
Net worth $6.6B
E-commerce · Argentina
- Born
- Jan 01, 1970
- Age
- 56
- Source
- E-commerce
- Residence
- Buenos Aires
- Citizenship
- Argentina
- Marital status
- Children
- 0
- Education
- Master of Business Administration, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School
Net worth over time
Biography
- Marcos Galperin is founder of e-commerce platform MercadoLibre, the eBay of Latin America.
- MercadoLibre, which operates in 18 Latin American countries and Portugal, went public in 2007 on the Nasdaq.
- In 2026, after 26 years at the helm, Galperin stepped down as CEO and became executive chairman of the company.
- He worked at Argentine oil company YPF for three years and as a summer intern at JPMorgan before starting MercadoLibre in 1999.
- eBay, once MercadoLibre's largest shareholder with 18%, sold its stake in 2016 for more than $1 billion.
- Galperin helped organize Argentina's first-ever presidential debate ahead of the country's 2015 elections.
- Galperin hails from Argentine business royalty. His grandfather started Sadesa, a tannery that has grown into one of the country's largest leather manufacturers.
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