Charles Ergen

Founder and Chairman, DISH Network

$2.65B

as of 10/04/24

About Charles Ergen

Charlie Ergen is the cofounder and chairman of satellite and internet service company EchoStar.

Ergen first began selling satellite dishes out of the back of a truck in Colorado in 1980.

In 1995, EchoStar went public and also launched its first satellite, birthing pay TV subsidiary Dish Network.

Ergen spun off Dish into a separate company in 2008 and remerged the businesses in December 2023, again under the EchoStar name.

Today Dish Network has more than 8 million subscribers.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Satellite TV

Residence

Denver, Colorado

Marital status

Married

Birth date

03/01/53 (age 71)

Number of children

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Tennessee Knoxville; Master of Business Administration, Wake Forest University School of Business

Self-made

self-made

Charles Ergen’s fortune is worth

44K

troy ounces of gold

41K

median U.S. household

27K

median U.S. income

0.053%

U.S. credit card volume

0.011%

GDP of the United States

0.008%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Ergen is an avid mountain climber who has reached the Mount Everest base camp.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

US OTC | CNXX-US

CONX Corp.

NASDAQ | SATS-US

Echostar Communications Corp