Name
John Arrillaga
John Arrillaga
Portola Valley, California
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Stanford University
United States
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real estate, Self Made
$2,500,000,000
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#916 Billionaires 2019
#328 Forbes 400 2018
John Arrillaga built a fortune in Silicon Valley real estate. Arrillaga partnered with Richard "Dick" Peery, buying farmland in Silicon Valley in the 1960s and turning it into office parks.Their Peery-Arrillaga firm sold about half its commercial real estate portfolio in 2006 for $1.1 billion.Current tenants include Google and Intuit. He has donated heavily to his alma mater, Stanford, with a $100 million gift in 2006 and a $151 million pledge in 2013.
Arrillaga attended Stanford University on a basketball scholarship. Arrillaga's daughter Laura is married to Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen; he cofounded web browser firm Netscape in 1994.
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