ATLANTA — Forbes recently released its new list of the 400 richest people in the US and several call Georgia home.
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Forbes has released its list of billionaires for 2024 and 10 people from the Peach State are on the list.
This includes the owners of Chick-fil-A: Bubba Cathy, Dan Cathy and Trudy Cathy White, each with a net worth of $10.6 billion.
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Atlanta Falcons owner and Home Depot co-founder, Arthur Blank made the list with $8.9 billion.
Then John Brown, former president of medical device and software company Stryker Corporation has a net worth of $7.8 billion.
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Rounding out the list of Georgians includes, Gary Rollins and family, who controls Orkin, one of the largest pest control companies by revenue.
Jim Kennedy, a former chairman of Cox Enterprises, has a net worth of $6.6 billion.
Dan Kurzius and Ben Chestnut, co-founders of Mailchimp, both made the list. Kurzuis is worth $5.7 billion and Chestnut is worth $5.1 billion.
Neal Aronson, who founded Roark Capital, which owns 30,000 sandwich shops including Jimmy John’s, Arby’s, Sonic and Subway, is worth $4.1 billion.
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