Charles Ergen
$13.27B
as of 07/12/26
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, the company has more than 7 million pay TV subscribers.
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Citizenship
United States of AmericaSource of wealth
Satellite TVResidence
Denver, ColoradoMarital status
MarriedBirth date
03/01/53 (age 73)Number of children
5Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Tennessee Knoxville; Master of Business Administration, Wake Forest University School of BusinessSelf-made
self-madeCharles Ergen’s fortune is worth
221K
troy ounces of gold
204K
median U.S. household
133K
median U.S. income
0.265%
U.S. credit card volume
0.053%
GDP of the United States
0.039%
United States debt
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Ergen is an avid mountain climber who has reached the Mount Everest base camp.
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