Russ Weiner
$5.17B
as of 07/05/24
About Russ Weiner
Russ Weiner founded energy drink company Rockstar in 2001.
Weiner sold Rockstar to PepsiCo in 2020, in a deal worth more than $4 billion.
The son of right-wing talk-radio star Michael Savage, Weiner ran for California State Assembly in 1998.
Though he lost the race, Weiner caught the eye of his father's friend, Skyy Vodka founder Maurice Kanbar, who quickly hired him.
When Kanbar rejected Weiner's idea for an energy drink, Weiner quit and launched Rockstar using a $50,000 mortgage on his Sausalito, Calif. condo.
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Citizenship
United States of AmericaSource of wealth
Energy drinksResidence
Delray Beach, FloridaMarital status
SingleBirth date
05/05/70 (age 54)Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, San Diego State UniversitySelf-made
self-madeRuss Weiner’s fortune is worth
86K
troy ounces of gold
79K
median U.S. household
52K
median U.S. income
0.103%
U.S. credit card volume
0.021%
GDP of the United States
0.015%
United States debt
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When the first Rockstar cans hit stores and bars, Weiner drove around San Francisco in an old limo painted with the Rockstar logo to promote it.
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