The Hastingses – $2.2B
Reed Hastings is the best-known member of this family. After all, he is the person who started Netflix. The Boston native was in the Marines and Peace Corps at some point, but he found success in tech. Although he had a number of tech jobs and ventures in the past, his stroke of luck came when he launched Netflix, then a movie rental site. While successful in the late ‘90s, it only became an empire with the advent of internet television.
The Hastingses – $2.2B
The Beveridges – $2.5B
The Beveridge family made their wealth in a rather ironic way. Yup, you guessed it – they made a fortune out of drinks! Specifically, they made it big when Bert “Tito” Beveridge, the family patriarch, founded Tito’s Handmade Vodka. The company was located in Texas and became instantly successful. They sold almost 45 million bottles of it! He went into oil and gas and mortgage industries as well.
The Beveridges – $2.5B
