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#232 Amos Hostetter, Jr.
Chair, Pilot House Associates
REAL TIME NET WORTH
$3.4B
as of 3/1/19
Amos Hostetter Jr. made a fortune in the 1990s as cable TV pioneer and now is most active in philanthropy.
He set out with an MBA and $1,500 in the 1960s to invest in a cable TV company that eventually became Continental Cablevision.
He sold it to US West for $11 billion in 1996.
His family's Barr Foundation donates tens of millions of dollars each year to support the arts and education and fight climate change.
Hostetter also runs Pilot House Ventures, an early-stage investment firm. |