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Michael Dell $DELL, the founder and CEO of the eponymous PC manufacturer, is attempting to take his company private after almost 25 years in public hands. With financial backing from Microsoft $MSFT and private-equity firm Silver Lake, he’s exercising his $3.6 billion, 15.7% stake in the company as part of the takeover bid.
He’s not the only founder of a now public company to retain a large portion of it. Here are the largest stakes by individuals in the companies they founded that are larger than Michael Dell’s both as a portion and in value:
Warren Buffet’s $50.7 billion, 38.1% of Berkshire Hathaway $BRK.B
Larry Ellison’s $39.1 billion, 23.5% of Oracle $ORCL
Sheldon Adelson’s $23.4 billion, 52.4% of Las Vegas Sands Corp.
Jeff Bezos’s $22.6 billion, 19.2% of Amazon $AMZN.com
Mark Zuckerberg’s $12.0 billion, 40.0% of Facebook $META.com
Harold Hamm’s $10.6 billion, 68.3% of Continental Resources
Richard Kinder’s $8.8 billion, 37.1% of Kinder Morgan $KMI
