![]() ![]() ![]() Not that going to college is a prerequisite for landing among the wealthiest people in the nation. A different Golden State school, University of Southern California, holds the fourth spot. Stanford, last year’s third-most popular school for Forbes 400 listees, dropped to fifth this year, as alumni Jerry Yang, the Yahoo founder who spent a quarter century on the Forbes list, Robinhood cofounder Baiju Bhatt and famed Facebook venture capitalist Jim Breyer all fell off this year’s ranking. Altogether, 70 members of The Forbes 400-or about 18% of the list-earned their undergraduate degrees at an Ivy League college. The school now ties Yale for second place, with 11 alumni apiece. Three alums dropped out of the ranks: Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who alleged that Mark Zuckerberg got his idea for Facebook from their ConnectU, fell off the list amid the crypto winter, while Fidelity’s longtime head Edward “Ned” Johnson III died at 91 in March. Harvard, meanwhile, has the second most members of The Forbes 400 among its alumni, down from first last year. In September, the Grays announced a $55 million donation to Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center to establish the new Basser Cancer Interception Institute, funding research to stop hereditary cancers at their earliest stages. Gray and his wife have since become prolific donors to the university, surpassing $125 million in total gifts. “Both Mindy and I feel this huge debt of gratitude.” “Both liberal arts and finance allowed me to meet all these incredible people and really created the springboard for the rest of my life,” Gray says. He was able to meet other motivated students and make lasting connections-including meeting his wife, Mindy Gray, in his senior year romantic poetry class. Gray says the liberal arts education he pursued-he graduated in 1992 with undergraduate degrees in English and finance-taught him both analytical and communication skills, preparing him well for a career in business. ![]() “For me, Penn was critical,” says Jon Gray, president and COO of private equity firm Blackstone. ![]()
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