JOHN PRITZKER

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BILLION  SELF-MADE SCORE: # SOURCE: HOTELS, INVESTMENTS AGE: 66 RESIDENCE: SAN FRANCISCO PHILANTHROPY SCORE: An heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune, he sold his shares in Hyatt to relatives in 2010. He then acquired several boutique-hotel management companies, and in late 2018 sold his Two Roads Hospitality hotel operation for $408 million to Hyatt, where his brother Tom Pritzker (No. 187) is chairman. In March the John Pritzker Family Fund said it was donating $25 million to build a waterfront park in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood. His first job: busboy, at age 13. Then he became a waiter at Lenny’s Delicatessen in Hubbard Woods, Illinois: “The experience … actually set me on the path towards hospitality.”