Bob Parsons

$3.89B

as of 10/04/24

About Bob Parsons

The colorful founder of GoDaddy, Bob Parsons, sold off his remaining stake in the web hosting firm and stepped down from the board in 2018.

Parsons grew up "poor as a church mouse" in inner-city Baltimore and struggled in school, flunking the fifth grade.

He sold software firm Parsons Technology to Intuit for $64 million in 1994; three years later he launched Jomax Technologies, later renamed GoDaddy.

In 2014, Parsons founded PXG, which makes high-performance golf equipment and apparel.

He also owns commercial real estate, motorcycle dealerships, a production company and the Scottsdale National Golf Club in Arizona.

Parsons and his wife have given away more than $300 million to charities since 2012.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Web hosting

Residence

Scottsdale, Arizona

Marital status

Married

Birth date

11/27/50 (age 73)

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Baltimore

Self-made

self-made

Bob Parsons’s fortune is worth

65K

troy ounces of gold

60K

median U.S. household

39K

median U.S. income

0.078%

U.S. credit card volume

0.016%

GDP of the United States

0.011%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Parsons says his time as a U.S. Marine in the Vietnam War, where he received a Purple Heart medal and combat action ribbon, has helped him in business.