JOHN PAUL DEJORIA

$3.1

BILLION  SELF-MADE SCORE: ) SOURCE: HAIR PRODUCTS, TEQUILA AGE: 75 RESIDENCE: AUSTIN, TX PHILANTHROPY SCORE: In spring 2018, DeJoria sold his remaining stake in Patrón Spirits to Bacardí in a $5.1 billion deal. He has since launched two 3D cellphones under his ROKiT brand. He purchased an 80-acre Illinois campus formerly owned by McDonald’s for $40 million. Haircare company John Paul Mitchell Systems, which DeJoria cofounded in 1980 and still owns a majority of, notched an estimated $900 million in sales in 2018. His first job was selling Christmas cards door-to-door at age 9.