Thor Bjorgolfsson

$2.07B
as of 10/07/24

About Thor Bjorgolfsson

Thor Bjorgolfsson owns stakes in such businesses as Swiss pharmaceutical company Xantis and Chilean telecom WOM.

Bjorgolfsson also has investments in cryptocurrencies and startups Zwift, Deliveroo and Stripe.

Bjorgolfsson made his first fortune in the wilds of Russia, cofounding Bravo brewery and creating the popular Botchkarov beer brand.

He sold it to Heineken in 2002 and used the proceeds to go on a buying spree in his native Iceland and Eastern Europe.

He lost nearly all of his fortune when Iceland nearly went bankrupt in 2008 and he had to find a way to pay off more than $1 billion in debt.

Personal stats

Citizenship

Iceland

Source of wealth

Investments

Residence

London, United Kingdom

Marital status

Married

Birth date

03/19/67 (age 57)

Number of children

3

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, New York University

Self-made

self-made

Thor Bjorgolfsson’s fortune is worth

35K

troy ounces of gold

32K

median U.S. household

21K

median U.S. income

0.041%

U.S. credit card volume

0.008%

GDP of the United States

0.006%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

His great-grandfather Thor Jensen was one of Iceland's first entrepreneurs, who survived bankruptcy twice and was later one of Iceland's largest landowners.

Net worth over time

Real-time ranking

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