Marcos Galperin
$7.22B
as of 01/19/25
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.
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Citizenship
ArgentinaSource of wealth
E-commerceResidence
Buenos Aires, ArgentinaEducation
Master of Business Administration, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton SchoolSelf-made
self-madeMarcos Galperin’s fortune is worth
120K
troy ounces of gold
111K
median U.S. household
72K
median U.S. income
0.144%
U.S. credit card volume
0.029%
GDP of the United States
0.021%
United States debt
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eBay, once MercadoLibre's largest shareholder with 18%, sold its stake in 2016 for more than $1 billion.
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NASDAQ | MELI-US
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