Bob Parsons
Scottsdale, Arizona
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Baltimore
United States
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web hosting, Self Made
$2,500,000,000
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#916 Billionaires 2019
#328 Forbes 400 2018
The colorful founder of GoDaddy, Bob Parsons, sold off his remaining stake in the web hosting firm and stepped down from the board in 2018. Parsons founded its predecessor firm Jomax Technologies in 1997 and changed the name to GoDaddy in 2000. In 2011, he sold a majority stake in GoDaddy in a deal that valued the company at $2.3 billion. The firm went public in 2015.Parsons now owns shopping malls, motorcycle dealerships, an ad agency and a golf club. He and his wife have given away more than $160 million to charities since 2012.He credits his time as a marine in Vietnam, where he received a Purple Heart medal and combat action ribbon, as preparing him for business.
A self proclaimed golf nut, Parsons founded Parsons Xtreme Golf to design and develop the finest golf clubs ever played.Parsons grew up "poor as a church mouse" in inner-city Baltimore and struggled in school, flunking the fifth grade.
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