Name
Dan Snyder
Dan Snyder
Potomac, Maryland
Drop Out, University of Maryland
United States
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Washington Redskins, Self Made
$2,200,000,000
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#1057 Billionaires 2019
#368 Forbes 400 2018
Dan Snyder initially made his fortune with a marketing business, Snyder Communications, that he started as a college dropout. After taking the company public in 1996, Snyder sold it to French company Havas for $2.5 billion in 2000. In 1999, he bought the NFL's Washington Redskins for $800 million.Despite years of controversy due to the team name's Native American origins, Snyder refuses to change the Redskins' name.
In 1996, Snyder was the youngest public-company CEO on the New York Stock Exchange. Snyder dropped out of college to start a business chartering planes to fly college kids to sporting events. By 20 he was a millionaire.
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