Marcos Galperin

$6.65B
as of 06/13/26

About Marcos Galperin

Marcos Galperin is founder 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.

In 2026, after 26 years at the helm, Galperin stepped down as CEO and became executive chairman of the company.

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

Birth date

10/31/71 (age 54)

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

111K

troy ounces of gold

102K

median U.S. household

66K

median U.S. income

0.133%

U.S. credit card volume

0.027%

GDP of the United States

0.02%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Galperin helped organize Argentina's first-ever presidential debate ahead of the country's 2015 elections.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

Financial assets

NASDAQ | MELI-US

MercadoLibre

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