Marcos Galperin

$6.81B
as of 07/05/24

About Marcos Galperin

Marcos Galperin is founder and CEO of e-commerce platform MercadoLibre, the eBay of Latin America.

MercadoLibre, which operates in 18 Latin American countries and Portugal, went public in 2007 on the Nasdaq.

Galperin majored in economics and finance at the University of Pennsylvania and got an MBA from Stanford University.

He worked at Argentine oil company YPF for three years and as a summer intern at JPMorgan before starting MercadoLibre in 1999.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Argentina

Source of wealth

E-commerce

Residence

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Education

Master of Business Administration, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School

Self-made

self-made

Marcos Galperin’s fortune is worth

114K

troy ounces of gold

105K

median U.S. household

68K

median U.S. income

0.136%

U.S. credit card volume

0.027%

GDP of the United States

0.02%

United States debt

Net worth history

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Did you know?

Galperin hails from Argentine business royalty. His grandfather started Sadesa, a tannery that has grown into one of the country's largest leather manufacturers.

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Financial assets

NASDAQ | MELI-US

MercadoLibre

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