Henry Samueli

Cofounder, Chief Technology Officer and Chairman, Broadcom
$31.02B
$1.2B (-3.7%)
as of 03/13/26

About Henry Samueli

Henry Samueli is cofounder and chairman of chipmaker Broadcom.

Samueli started Broadcom with fellow billionaire Henry Nicholas in 1991 in a Redondo Beach, California condominium.

Samueli and his wife bought the NHL's Anaheim Ducks for $70 million in 2005. The franchise is now worth more than $1 billion.

The Samuelis donated $200 million to the University of California, Irvine in 2017. The gift was the largest in the school's history.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Semiconductors

Residence

Newport Beach, California

Marital status

Married

Birth date

09/20/54 (age 71)

Number of children

3

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of California, Los Angeles; Doctorate, University of California, Los Angeles; Master of Science, University of California, Los Angeles

Self-made

self-made

Henry Samueli’s fortune is worth

517K

troy ounces of gold

477K

median U.S. household

310K

median U.S. income

0.62%

U.S. credit card volume

0.124%

GDP of the United States

0.091%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Samueli is the son of Polish Holocaust survivors.

Net worth over time

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Financial assets

NASDAQ | AVGO-US

Broadcom Inc.

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