Amos Hostetter Jr

Chair, Pilot House Associates

$3.79B

as of 10/04/24

About Amos Hostetter Jr

Amos Hostetter Jr. made a fortune in the 1990s as cable TV pioneer and now is most active in philanthropy.

He set out with an MBA and $1,500 in the 1960s to invest in a cable TV company that eventually became Continental Cablevision.

He sold it to US West for $11 billion in 1996.

His family's Barr Foundation donates tens of millions of dollars each year to support the arts and education and fight climate change.

Hostetter also runs Pilot House Ventures, an early-stage investment firm.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Cable television

Residence

Boston, Massachusetts

Marital status

Married

Birth date

01/12/37 (age 87)

Number of children

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Amherst College; Master of Business Administration, Harvard University

Self-made

self-made

Amos Hostetter Jr’s fortune is worth

63K

troy ounces of gold

58K

median U.S. household

38K

median U.S. income

0.076%

U.S. credit card volume

0.015%

GDP of the United States

0.011%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Hostetter owns seaside property on Nantucket.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NYSE | T-US

AT&T Inc.

NASDAQ | CMCSA-US

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