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Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse Has A Nine-Figure Fortune From XRP

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Brad Garlinghouse

CEO, Ripple

Crypto Net Worth: $400 million-$500 million*

This Harvard M.B.A. has a sterling mainstream tech pedigree: CEO at Hightail (formerly YouSendIt), president of consumer applications at AOL and a senior vice president at Yahoo. As Ripple CEO, Garlinghouse, 47, has a 6.3% stake in Ripple the company — but that's not how he makes our list. Though Ripple controls 61.3 billion XRP, holdings that total $95 billion in value, Ripple's own venture capitalists value the company at only $410 million. Like so many operators on this list, it's his personal stash of XRP coins, confirmed "in the nine figures," that gets him here.

*All cryptocurrency/U.S. dollar conversions are as of January 19, 2018.

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