Hired-Hand Billionaires 2025: These 48 Executives Got Rich Working For Others

Hired-Hand Billionaires 2025: These 48 Executives Got Rich Working For Others

You don’t have to start a company or grow up wealthy to become a billionaire.

Hired-hand billionaires 2025: These 48 executives got rich working for others

You don’t have to start a company or grow up wealthy to become a billionaire. Hired-hand billionaires from left: SpaceX President & COO Gwynne Shotwell, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft Chairman & CEO Satya Nadella, Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg, Justin Sullivan/Getty Images, Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/Getty Images Most billionaires got rich by building businesses or inheriting big bucks from someone who did. Yet a small but growing group of current…