Name
Scott Cook
Scott Cook
Woodside, California
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Southern California | Master of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
United States
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software, Self Made
$4,300,000,000
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#617 Billionaires 2019
#223 Forbes 400 2018
Scott Cook is the cofounder of financial software giant Intuit, known for products like QuickBooks, TurboTax and Mint.The Harvard Business School grad worked for Procter & Gamble and Bain before launching Intuit in 1983.He stepped down as CEO in 1994, but remains chairman of the $5.2 billion (sales) company and has a nearly 5% stake.Cook and his wife are big supporters of education and have donated tens of millions to UCSF, UW-Madison and Khan Academy.
Cook was an early investor in Snapchat. He met cofounder Evan Spiegel after giving a guest lecture at Stanford.He is a board member at Procter & Gamble with Meg Whitman. Both of them started their careers at P&G.
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