John Malone

$10.78B

$4.4M

as of 05/07/25

About John Malone

Nicknamed the Cable Cowboy, John Malone is known for his penchant for media deals and complicated corporate structures.

From the 1970s to the 1990s, Malone built up cable TV firm TCI as right hand man to founder Bob Magness (d. 1996).

Malone became the CEO of TCI in 1973 at 29 years old, then sold the firm to AT&T for more than $50 billion in 1999.

His Liberty Media closed a $4.4 billion acquisition of auto-racing league Formula 1 in January 2017.

In 2018, Malone retired from the boards of telecom giant Charter Communications and entertainment firm Lions Gate.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Cable television

Residence

Elizabeth, Colorado

Marital status

Married

Birth date

03/07/41 (age 84)

Number of children

Education

Doctorate, Johns Hopkins University; Master of Science, Johns Hopkins University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, Yale University

Self-made

self-made

John Malone’s fortune is worth

180K

troy ounces of gold

166K

median U.S. household

108K

median U.S. income

0.216%

U.S. credit card volume

0.043%

GDP of the United States

0.032%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Malone has a doctorate in operations research from Johns Hopkins, and started off his career at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NASDAQ | BATRA-US

Liberty Braves Group (Series A)

US OTC | BATRB-US

Liberty Braves Group (Series B)

NASDAQ | BATRK-US

Liberty Braves Group (Series C)

NASDAQ | LBRDA-US

Liberty Broadband A shares

US OTC | LBRDB-US

Liberty Broadband B

NASDAQ | LBRDK-US

Liberty Broadband C shares

NASDAQ | LBTYK-US

Liberty Global Inc C

NASDAQ | LBTYA-US

Liberty Global Inc. (Cl A)

NASDAQ | LBTYB-US

Liberty Global Inc. (Cl B)

NASDAQ | FWONA-US

Liberty Media Corp.

US OTC | FWONB-US

Liberty Media Corp. Shs -B-

NASDAQ | FWONK-US

Liberty Media Corp. Shs -C-

NASDAQ | LSXMA-US

Liberty SiriusXM Group (Series A)

NASDAQ | LSXMB-US

Liberty SiriusXM Group (Series B)

NASDAQ | LSXMK-US

Liberty SiriusXM Group (Series C)

NASDAQ | LILA-US

LiLAC Group (Class A)

US OTC | LILAB-US

LiLAC Group (Class B)

NASDAQ | LILAK-US

LiLAC Group (Class C)

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Qurate Retail Preferred

NASDAQ | QVCGA-US

QVC Group Class A

NASDAQ | WBD-US

Warner Bros. Discovery Series A