About John Arrillaga
John Arrillaga built a fortune in Silicon Valley real estate.
Arrillaga partnered with Richard "Dick" Peery, buying farmland in Silicon Valley in the 1960s and turning it into office parks.
Their Peery-Arrillaga firm sold about half its commercial real estate portfolio in 2006 for $1.1 billion.
Current tenants include Google and Intuit.
He has donated heavily to his alma mater, Stanford, with a $100 million gift in 2006 and a $151 million pledge in 2013.
Personal stats
Citizenship
United States of AmericaSource of wealth
real estateBirth date
04/03/37Number of children
2Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Stanford UniversitySelf-made
self-madeJohn Arrillaga’s fortune is worth
43K
troy ounces of gold
40K
median U.S. household
26K
median U.S. income
0.052%
U.S. credit card volume
0.01%
GDP of the United States
0.008%
United States debt
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Arrillaga's daughter Laura is married to Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen; he cofounded web browser firm Netscape in 1994.
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