21 September 2007Six billionaires, no waitingTo make the Forbes 400, you have to be worth $1.3 billion or so, and half a dozen Oklahomans (up two from last year) qualify. In addition to the usual suspects George Kaiser, Aubrey McClendon, Tom Ward and David Green this year's list includes Harold Hamm, of Enid's Continental Resources, and Lynn Schusterman, widow of Charles Schusterman, founder of Samson Investment Company, Tulsa. Kaiser, as usual, is at the top: he's listed at $11 billion, twenty-sixth among the 400. For the benefit of visitors from Seattle: Clayton Bennett, of Dorchester Capital and the Professional Basketball Club, did not make the list. Posted at 8:00 AM to SoonerlandAre any of those guys middle aged & handsome (and single, natch)? Failing that, are any of those guys REALLY REALLY OLD and in failing health (and single, natch)? Posted by: aka_monty at 8:31 AM on 21 September 2007I wanted to drop a note about a cool application that was buried a couple of clicks deep on the Forbes site. If you go here: [Live link] You'll find an interactive relationship viewer that we (GroupScope, Inc.) created in a partnership with Forbes to show the affiliation networks of the list member alumni from Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale. It's a really great interactive way to learn more about the list. Thought you might enjoy checking it out. Posted by: brad at 11:31 AM on 21 September 2007 |