splits: 7What is Beeple’s Net Worth?Beeple is an American graphic designer, digital artist, and animator, known for making comical and often surreal multimedia works with social and political messages. Beeple has a net worth of $50 million. An NFT collage of his images entitled “Everydays: the First 500 Days” sold for nearly $70 million at Christie’s in 2021, making it the fourth most expensive artwork by any living artist. Beeple is considered to be at the forefront of the non-fungible token movement in digital media.Early Life and EducationBeeple, whose real name is Michael Joseph Winkelmann, was born in 1981 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. His mother worked at a senior center, while his father was an electrical engineer. For his higher education, Winkelmann attended Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, graduating in 2003 with a degree in computer science.Art CareerOn May 1, 2007, Winkelmann started his famous “Everydays” project, which involves the creation of a piece of art every day. Inspired by Tom Judd, who did a drawing every day for a year, Winkelmann’s project has spanned over 5,000 consecutive days of digital art-making. Additionally, Winkelmann has devoted different years to individual media and programs, such as Adobe Illustrator in 2012 and Cinema 4D in 2015. Thematically, his work often focuses on dystopian futures, and use iconic figures from popular culture or politics to satirize current news. Some of Winkelmann’s works were used in Louis Vuitton’s Spring/Summer ready-to-wear collection in 2019.NFTsIn November of 2020, Winkelmann began selling non-fungible tokens on the digital art online auction platform Nifty Gateway. Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are digital representations that can only be owned by one person via blockchain. One of Winkelmann’s NFTs, entitled “Crossroad,” was designed to transform into one of two animations depending on the result of the 2020 US presidential election. It originally sold for $66,666.66, and was later resold in February of 2021 for $6.7 million.In 2021, Winkelmann created a collage of images from his “Everydays” series called “Everydays: the First 5000 Days.” Its associated NFT was put up for auction at Christie’s in London, where it sold for $69.3 million. In the process, it became one of the most expensive works by a living artist, the most expensive NFT ever, and the first NFT to be sold by a legacy auction house. The purchaser, Singapore-based programmer Vignesh Sundaresan, paid for the artwork using 42,329 Ether, a cryptocurrency. He has displayed the full-resolution work in a digital museum.Other ProjectsAmong the other mediums in which Winkelmann practices are short films, creative commons VJ loops, and virtual reality and augmented reality works. He has also worked on concert visuals for artists including Katy Perry, Eminem, Nicki Minaj, Zedd, One Direction, Wiz Khalifa, Janet Jackson, and Imagine Dragons. On the corporate side, his clients include NBC, Apple, Samsung, Nike, Sony Pictures, Coca-Cola, and Space X.Personal LifeWinkelmann moved from Wisconsin to North Charleston, South Carolina in 2017. There, he lives with his wife and two children.
splits: 5What is Crystal Kung Minkoff’s net worth?Crystal Kung Minkoff is an American reality television star and entrepreneur who has a net worth of $30 million. Crystal Kung Minkoff became well-known after she began appearing on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.” She became a full “Main” cast member ahead of the show’s 11th season which debuted in May 2021. She is the first Asian-American cast member of the reality franchise.Early LifeCrystal was born in Northridge, California in 1983. She claims to be a 76th generational descendant of Confucius. She attended the University of California at Irvine where she studied History and Biology.Personal LifeAt an office party in 2003, Crystal met director/producer Rob Minkoff. Their first date was the movie premier of “Finding Nemo.” Rob is the director behind feature films like “The Lion King,” “Stuart Little” and “Haunted Mansion.”Real EstateIn 2010 Crystal and Rob paid $2.3 million for a property in Bel Air. They tore down the existing structure and proceeded to build a 7,200 square-foot mansion that today is worth an estimated $14 million.Real CocoCrystal and her brother Jeffrey co-founded the coconut beverage company Real Coco. The company creates coconut-based water, milk, chips and coffee creamer.
splits: 7What is Piotr Szulczewski’s Net Worth?Piotr Szulczewski is a Polish-Canadian businessman and computer engineer. As of this writing, Piotr has a net worth of $2 billion. In 2010, along with Danny Zhang, he co-founded the e-commerce platform Wish. Currently the company’s Chairman and CEO, Szulczewski is among the world’s youngest billionaires.Early Life and Career Beginnings at GooglePiotr Szulczewski was born in 1981 in Warsaw, Poland and was raised in the Tarchomin neighborhood. As communism was falling in Poland, he and his parents immigrated to Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, where he studied mathematics and computer science at the University of Waterloo. Shortly before he graduated, Szulczewski relocated to Palo Alto, California to do a four-month coding internship for Google. Subsequently, he became a full-time Google employee, writing the prototype algorithms for keyword expansion. This feature helps customers search for products from advertisers.Szulczewski relocated again in the summer of 2007, this time to South Korea to work in the new Google offices. There, Szulczewski was trained to adapt to the Korean market, which demanded more detailed search portals than the ones used in the United States and other Western countries.Wish.comIn 2009, Szulczewski left Google to spend six months at home, where he wrote code for an advertising recommendation platform that analyzed people’s browsing behaviors. Shortly after, in 2010, he set up his own software company called ContextLogic. By September, the company received around $1.7 million in investments, including from Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman. In 2011, Szulczewski invited his longtime friend Danny Zhang to join ContextLogic as a co-founder, and to relaunch the company as Wish. The new technology they employed attracted the attention of Facebook, which offered $20 million for the company; however, Szulczewski declined the offer.Wish was created to give shoppers the ability to make their own wish lists of their favorite products, and then to match them with merchants. In 2013, Wish became an e-commerce platform with merchants, mostly from China, hosting their products directly on the application. Szulczewski’s aim with the platform was to cater to low-income households, offering smaller items that are cheaper to ship. By 2016, Wish saw over five million daily visitors. The next year, it became the most downloaded e-commerce application in the United States, and the year after that, was the most downloaded e-commerce application in the world. During this time, the company signed a multi-year partnership with the Los Angeles Lakers of the NBA. Among its features, Wish includes a “Wheel of Fortune”-style game called Blitz Buy, which offers consumers additional discounts on bestselling items.Personal Life and WealthIn 2016, Szulczewski was ranked #21 on America’s Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40 list. A few years later, he was listed as the 34th wealthiest person from Canada, as well as that country’s number-one youngest billionaire. Despite his enormous success, Szulczewski mostly stays away from the spotlight, rarely giving interviews. Because of this, many details about his private life remain unknown to the public.Real EstateIn August 2019, Piotr paid $15 million for a home in Bel Air.
splits: 12What is Shroud’s net worth?Shroud, also known as Michael Grzesiek, is a Canadian YouTuber and competitive gamer who has a net worth of $20 million. He became famous playing first-person shooter and battle royale games like Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, Apex Legends, Escape from Tarkov and Valorant.As of this writing, Shroud has more than 9 million followers on Twitch and 7 million subscribers on YouTube and nearly 1 billion views. He is one of the most-followed, most-popular and highest-earning people on Twitch. He’s often compared to and competes with/against, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins.EarningsIn a given year Shroud earns $10-12 million from his expanding empire.Early Life and Career BeginningsMichael Grzesiek was born on June 2, 1994 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.He stared his professional gaming career playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, bouncing around from several teams. At some point he moved to Orange County, California to pursue his career full-time.In 2016 he helped Cloud9 place first at the ESL Pro League Season 4. They placed second at ESL One Cologne the following year.In April 2018 Shroud announced he was stepping down from Cloud9 and retiring from playing Counter Strike professionally.He then transitioned to Twitch streaming full-time, reaching 100,000 subscribers within a year.Microsoft Mixer/Facebook Contract BuyoutIn October 2019, following in Ninja’s footsteps, Shroud accepted a contract to leave Twitch and become exclusive to Microsoft’s Mixer app. In June 2020 Microsoft announced it was shuttering Mixer and folding the platform into Facebook Gaming. He was reportedly offered a significant contract from Facebook, supposedly two times his Microsoft contract. Shroud famously refused to join Facebook which triggered a contract buyout from Microsoft. Ninja made the same decision. The combined payout was reportedly $40 million, with Shroud receiving $10 million and Ninja $30 million.In August 2020 he returned to Twitch, reportedly having to pay as much as $10 million to buy himself out. His first stream after returning attracted more than 516,000 concurrent viewers.Real EstateIn September 2021 Michael paid $9.4 million for a mansion in a gated community in Hidden Hills, California.Shroud also owns a home in Irvine, California which he bought in 2018
splits: 10What is Bang Si-hyuk’s Net Worth?Bang Si-hyuk is a South Korean record executive, producer, composer, and lyricist. Bang Si-hyuk has a net worth of $3 billion. The founder of entertainment company Hybe Corporation and its subsidiary Big Hit Music, he is one of the 50 richest people in South Korea, and the only billionaire in that nation’s entertainment industry. Bang has produced albums by such groups as 2AM, Teen Top, GFriend, and global phenomenon BTS.Early Life and JYP EntertainmentBang Si-hyuk was born on August 9, 1972 to a family of musicians. His passion for music started early on, although his parents urged him against following a career in the field. As a teen, Bang went to the all-boys Kyunggi High School. He subsequently attended Seoul National University, where he made his debut as a composer.In the mid 90s, Bang met Park Jin-young, with whom he went on to write numerous songs. Park eventually founded his own company, called JYP Entertainment, which Bang joined as a producer, composer, and arranger. Early on, the duo found success producing “Chapter 1,” the debut album of the group g.o.d. On the album, Bang arranged the hit songs “One Candle” and “Road.” Following the release of “Chapter 1,” g.o.d. went on to become one of the most popular boy bands in South Korea. It was around this time that Bang became known by the stage name “Hitman,” due to his ability to launch hit bands.Big Hit EntertainmentUpon leaving JYP Entertainment in 2005, Bang founded his own company called Big Hit Entertainment. There, he continued to compose, write, and produce music for hit artists. In 2007, he served as a producer on “The Wonder Years,” the debut album by the girl group Wonder Girls. Three years later, he produced the debut studio album by the boy band 2AM, entitled “Saint o’Clock.” The album spawned the hit singles “Like Crazy” and “You Wouldn’t Answer My Calls.”In 2011, Bang produced a number of albums, including Lee Seung-gi’s “Tonight,” Teen Top’s “Roman,” and Homme’s “Homme by Hitman Bang.” The next year, he produced Lee Hyun’s “The Healing Echo.” Bang has also produced works by such popular artists as IZ, TXT, GFriend, and Seventeen.BTSIn 2013, Bang began his most lucrative partnership when he helped launch the career of the boy band BTS. Starting with the group’s debut single album “2 Cool 4 Skool,” Bang has gone on to produce over 20 albums by BTS, including “O!RUL8,2?,” “Skool Luv Affair,” “Dark & Wild,” “The Most Beautiful Moment in Life,” “Wings,” “Love Yourself,” and “Map of the Soul.” Bang also co-wrote six songs on “Wings”; for the album, he won the Best Producer Award at the Mnet Asian Music Awards and the Best Songwriter Award at the Melon Music Awards.Bang was integral to the meteoric rise of BTS, which stands as the best-selling group in South Korean music history with more than 20 million albums sold. With their 2018 album “Love Yourself: Tear,” BTS became the first Korean musical act to top the US Billboard 200. Later, in 2020, the group became the first Korean act to make it to number one on both the Billboard Global 200 and the US Billboard Hot 100, which they did with the hit single “Dynamite.” Five number-one singles followed, including “Savage Love,” “Butter,” and “Permission to Dance.”WealthDue to his massive success as a producer, particularly for his contributions to BTS, Bang was estimated to be worth around $770 million in 2019. Just one year later, his net worth skyrocketed to around $2.8 billion following the stock launch of Big Hit Entertainment. As a result, Bang became the only billionaire in the entertainment industry in South Korea, as well as one of the top ten richest people in the nation. He subsequently ventured into mobile applications, helping to develop the platform Weverse, which hosts multimedia content and facilitates communication between artists and fans. Additionally, Bang acquired a number of other companies, including Pledis Entertainment and Source Music.In 2021, Bang was ranked as one of Korea’s 50 Richest People; he was ranked 16th. Shortly after, Bang resigned as CEO of Hybe Corporation, but kept his position as chairman of the board of directors.AccoladesBang has won numerous industry honors for his songwriting, producing, and innovation, including multiple Melon Music and Mnet Asian Music Awards. He has also won producer awards at the Golden Disc Awards, Gaon Chart Music Awards, Seoul Music Awards, and Genie Music Awards.