If you're looking to become wealthy, there is one major common denominator here!
Can you guess it, or do you know it?
The Top 10 Largest Individual Landowners in the USA
John Malone at over 2 Million acres
Ted Turner 2million acres
Stan Kroenke at over 1.5 Million acres
Peter Buck at over 1.2 Million acres
Brad Kelley at over 1.2 Million acres
Thomas Peterffyat at over 550 Thousand acres
D. R. Horton at just over a Half Million acres
Jeff Bezos at just over 400 thousand acres
Stefan Soloviev at just under 400 thousand acres
Shannon Kizer at just under 400 thousand acres
What does this say about land ownership? The fact that the biggest landowners are also some of the wealthiest in not only the USA but the world. One could safely say that wealth and landownership seem to go hand in hand.
Names & Brief Bio/Info:
John Malone
John Malone, a legend in the cable TV business nicknamed the Cable Cowboy, is known for his penchant for media deals and complicated corporate structures. He built his empire by purchasing multiple cable TV companies; US Vice President Al Gore famously compared him to ‘Darth Vader'.From the 1970s to the 1990s, Malone built up cable TV firm TCI as the right-hand man to founder Bob Magness. Malone became the CEO of TCI in 1973 at the age of the age of 29,, then sold the firm much later on to AT&T for more than $50 billion in 1999.
Ted Turner
Ted Turner was born in Ohio in 1938. He began working for his father's company, Turner Advertising. After attending Brown University, he began managing a branch of his father's business. Then, later, following his father's suicide, he became president and CEO of Turner Advertising in 1963. He later renamed the company and turned it into a global empire. Turner founded the first 24-hour cable news network, CNN, which debuted in 1980. Time Warner purchased Turner Broadcasting for $7.5 billion in 1996. He now not only owns more land than some of the richest families in the world but also owns more bison than any other living human or company.
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Stan Kroenke
Kroenke grew up in Mora, Missouri, a small town with a population of approximately two dozen people. His first job was sweeping the floor at his father's lumber yard, Mora Lumber Company. By age 10, he was keeping the company's books. Kroenke, 17 years later, married Ann Walton, a Walmart heiress, in 1974. He founded the Kroenke Group in 1983, a real estate development firm that has built shopping centers and apartment buildings. He then founded THF Realty, a corporation in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1991. In 2016, THF's portfolio was valued at more than $2 billion. He later became a sports mogul, building a sports empire that includes the Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Colorado Rapids, and the U.K.'s Arsenal soccer club. These are not even all of his many ventures.
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Peter Buck
No not the guy from the band REM Peter Buck the co-founder of Subway The once nuclear physicist Peter Buck loaned his friend's son, Fred DeLuca, $1,000 in 1965 to start a shop that became the Subway chain. That same 1k netted him over 1 billion dollars in the course of his lifetime. The FIRST restaurant was "Pete's Super Submarines". Together Buck and DeLuca formed "Doctor's Associates" to oversee operations as the restaurant business expanded. Though neither the first nor the second restaurants were financially successful, they continued to expand their operations. By 1973, they had 16 locations throughout Connecticut and, in 1974, they began franchising out the restaurants. They also introduced a new logo and changed the name of their operation from what was then "Pete's Subway" to "Subway Sandwiches" Later known as what we have today.
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Brad Kelley
Born March 27, 1956, as a Kentucky farmer's son he built a fortune from discount cigarettes. Building his business to massive size the same company becoming the maker of popular cigarette brands such as USA Gold and Malibu cigarettes. Later selling his small smoke stick empire for $1 billion in 2001 to a lager conglomerate. Kelley has since used that cash to become one of the largest landowners in the U.S., with 1 million acres from Hawaii to Florida among other things. Note the kicker he was not a consumer of his products. Thomas Peterffyat.
A true revolutionary in the stock market and a legendary options trader. Thomas Peterffy was born in Budapest, Hungary, during war time to mention in the basement of a hospital well planes were actively dropping bombs right above the then babies head. He later migrated to the United States in the middle of the 1960s and eventually became fluent in English after his father gave him $100 dollars and sent him on his way as a young man in his teens in the middle of NYC.
His first steady source of income we know of was an architectural draftsman for the highway dept. Then later a computer programmer after offing his services to his employer to program their computer. Later in 1977, he purchased a seat on the American Stock Exchange and played a role in developing the first electronic trading platform for securities. As of March 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$34.4 billion, making him the 46th richest man in the world.
D. R. Horton
Went to school to study real estate and worked for a home building construction company learned the ins and out though he could do it better and more effectively and boy was he right about that. He built his first home in 1978 in Fort Worth and the rest is history! He began his company then grew his company into the nation's largest homebuilder incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Arlington, Texas. Since 2002, the company has been the largest homebuilder by volume in the United States all built with unmatched efficiencies-all based on his personal philosophy
Jeff Bezos (Jeffrey Preston Bezos)
A self-made second wealthiest person in the world as of June 14, 2024 was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and raised in Houston and Miami. Growing up, he worked summers on his grandfather's ranch repairing Caterpillar tractors in Cotulla, Texas. Now, named as the richest man in modern history, Jeff Bezos quit his job at an investment bank and founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his Seattle garage that only began as an online bookstore but has since expanded to variety of services and the largest retailer on the World Wide Web. An alumnus of Princeton University with degrees in electrical engineering and computer science. Later in 2000, he founded and owns the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services Blue Origin that develops rockets, he even flew to space in one in July 2021. In 2013 he purchased the major American newspaper The Washington Post for $250 million. First centibillionaire according to Forbes Real Time Billionaires Index, Bezos life story from working to a corporate job to being one of the most sought after successful men, has skyrocketed and undeniably dominated his domain.
Stefan Soloviev
He founded Crossroads Agriculture in 1999 to cultivate, purchase, store, and sell cash grains in the Wichita, Kansas area. By the early 2000s, the company moved to the western edge of the high plains, successfully producing grains in historically dry farming regions using a combination of drought-tolerant seeds and emerging agricultural technology. Starting in 2004, the company began acquiring grasslands south of Portales, New Mexico, and the ranching side of the operation was born. As of 2021, Soloviev owns and operates farmland and ranchland in Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, and New York
Stefan Soloviev is the chairman of the Soloviev Group, which has interests in agriculture, ranching, real estate, railroads and hospitality.
He formed the group in April 2021, merging his agriculture company with his late father Sheldon's (d. 2020) real estate firm Solow Building Co.
The Soloviev Group owns 700,000 acres of farm and ranch land in Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico, as well as two railroads in Colorado and Kansas.
The group sold several apartment buildings in New York for $1.75 billion in 2022; its properties include the iconic 9 West 57th St office tower.
Soloviev started working for his father as a teenager but the two fell out when he was 21; he then moved to Phoenix to trade commodities and grain.
Shannon Kizer
The mystery man of the bunch not much was able to be found on this guy besides he may be a framing magician with a city boy swag. He owns massive amounts of land in several states that is actively used to farm both crops and animals of various sorts. As his crops grow so does he land holdings.
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