Businesspersons
Gottfrid Svartholm Net Worth
Per Gottfrid Svartholm Warg's Net Worth as of 2024
$12 Million
Per Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was born on 17th October 1984, in Sweden, and is a computer specialist and hacker, also known as the co-owner of the webhosting company PRQ and co-owner of the BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay together with Fredrik Neij. He also programmed the tracker software hypercube (open source licensed software) that was used to maintain the Pirate Bay website tracker.
How rich is the computer specialist and hacker? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the overall size of Gottfrid Svartholm’s net worth is as much as $12 million, as of the data presented in late 2017. Business and IT are the major sources of Svartholm’s wealth.
Gottfrid Svartholm Net Worth $12 Million
Svartholm launched the website Americas Dumbest Soldiers in February 2004, on which dead American soldiers from the Iraq war were shown, and users were able to rate the stupidity of the way these soldiers died on a scale of 1 to 10. The US Foreign Office asked that the page be taken off the web, but with reference to freedom of speech, the request was rejected. However, in May 2004 Svartholm removed the page, because it caused too much venom.
In the summer of 2003, Gottfried Svartholm together with Peter Sunde and Fredrik Neij, had founded the file sharing website The Pirate Bay. He also developed the Bit Torrent Tracker software Hypercube. In 2008, the Pirate Bay operators Peter Sunde, Fredrik Neij, Gottfried Svartholm and Carl Lundström were charged with having allegedly infringed copyright laws. Svartholm and his co-defendants were found guilty by the Stockholm District Court of providing aid for the distribution of copyright protected material, and were sentenced to one year’s imprisonment, and damages of about $3.3 million. The defendants’ lawyers and demanded a renegotiation because of the suspicion of the prejudice of Judge Thomas Nostrom, who was active in two organizations working to protect the copyright process. According to Swedish law, the judgments are not legally binding until all appeals had been passed.
In April 2009, Svartholm was the subject of investigations by the Swedish Prosecutor’s Office, into his role at The Student Bay, a file-sharing site specializing in academic texts. Svartholm claimed not to have any knowledge of the site, reported by the Association for Educational Writers in December 2008 for copyright infringement. In October 2009, the Stockholm District Court of Svartholm forbade the operation of The Pirate Bay, although he was no longer living in Sweden, and the Pirate Bay was no longer based there. In 2009, Svartholm was convicted of copyright infringements, and sentenced to a one year prison sentence and damages in millions.
In 2012 Svartholm was arrested by the Cambodian police in the capital Phnom Penh, where he had lived for several years, and extradited to Sweden, where he served his prison sentence in the Mariefred prison.
In the middle of 2013 Svartholm was suspected of stealing millions of personal identification numbers from a police database in Denmark. Svartholm was convicted in Swedish Nacka for hacking and fraud and sentenced to two years in prison. His condemnation triggered numerous reactions; nearly 2000 people demand his release on the Facebook page Free Anakata. He was sent to Denmark as a prisoner, where he was tried for a hacking attack on CSC. After serving the combined prison sentence in Denmark, which is possible due to the close legal cooperation between the two countries, he was released from custody on 28th August 2015, and immediately arrested again because Sweden had submitted a request for extradition in June on the ground that he was in Sweden another four weeks. The request had not been notified.
Finally, in the personal life of Gottfrid Svartholm, he is believed to be single.
Businesspersons
Charles Saatchi Net Worth
Charles Saatchi is one of the richest and best known businessmen in the world and one of many millionaires. Saatchi’s overall net worth has been stated to be $100 million for 2014. Charles Saatchi was born in Baghdad, Iraq, but later had to move together with his family to London, UK to avoid the persecution of Jews in his home country. He was the second son in the family of four kids. As a teenager Charles was really interested in American pop culture and studied at the London College of Communication. After graduation he began his professional career as a copywriter working for “Benton & Bowles” and later started to work in tandem with an art director, Ross Cramer, and together they formed their own company called “CramerSaatchi”.
Charles Saatchi Net Worth $100 Million
They were successful and took-on employees John Hegarty and Heremy Sinclair, but true success came to Charles later. In 1970 Charles Saatchi started his business together with brother Maurice: they established “Saatchi & Saatchi” agency which had become the largest advertising agency in the world by the mid-80’s with just a huge number of high-profile clients like UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and British Airways. However, Charles and Maurice left the agency and together founded another one called “M&C Saatchi”. They took many of their important clients with them, and one of these was British Airways. Nowadays, thanks to his prosperous business, Charles Saatchi has a net worth of $100 million dollars.
To the rest of the world Saatchi is also known as one of the most famous modern art collectors. He purchased his first art work in 1969 – by Sol LeWitt, a minimalist from New York. His passion for paintings only grew, and in 2009 he even published the book “My Name Is Charles Saatchi And I Am An Artoholic” wherein the author answered many questions and even gave some advice about collectibles. But the book didn’t become as popular as Saatchi expected, so the author asked his personal assistant to buy a huge number of books to help his work hit some positions in bestseller charts. Later in 2009 Saatchi appeared on the BBC program “School of Saatchi” and gave many young artists a perfect opportunity to show their talent and showcase artworks: some artists even painted portraits of Saatchi himself. In July 2010 Charles Saatchi donated his Saatchi Gallery to the British public together with 200 works of art.
Saatchi’s personal life has never been very public, but he married his first wife in 1973. He had met Doris Lockhart Dibley in 1965 while working for “Benton & Bowes”. The couple lived together for the six years before marrying, but divorced in 1990. Saatchi’s second wife was Kay Hartenstein to whom he was married from 1990-2001, and they even had a daughter together. Then Saatchi married for the third time in 2003, to English journalist, food writer, gourmet and television personality Nigella Lawson, but after public disagreements, were divorced 2013.
Businesspersons
Mikey Teutul Net Worth
Michael Joseph was born 26 November 1978, in Montgomery, New York State USA, and widely known as Mikey Teutul, is a reality television personality, the youngest son of Orange County Choppers founder Paul Teutul, Sr. Mikey began his working life at 14, in the family business.
So just how rich is Mikey Teutul, as of late 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Mikey has a net worth of over $3 million dollars, largely earned by working at his father’s and older brother Paul Jr,’s company Orange County Choppers (OCC), and Orange County Iron Works, and through his TV appearances.
Mikey Teutul Net Worth $3 Million
Little is known of Mikey’s early life or education – it seems to have always revolved around the family business. Helping out his family in his teens, theoretically he worked as Assistant General Manager. but his main duties were to answer ‘phones, and clear-up and take out the trash. He was on rare occasions given the chance to build bikes, until he was competent to build his own. He also attended events for promoting OCC.
In 2002, the family was invited to take part in a reality show, Discovery Channel’s “American Chopper”, and subsequently “American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior”, in the course of which the youngest son was thrown out of the business – the middle son is Daniel, and younger sister Cristin. The reason for Mikey’s exclusion was that Mikey tried to be a mediator between his father and his brother, but his father seemed to be offended that his younger son did not take his side, and so threw him out of the business. During the filming of the show, Mikey was somethoing of a comedy relief to his father’s workers, and that comedy streak helped gain him popularity in TV shows. Mikey then joined his brother’s post-OCC venture, -Paul Jr Designs – along with most of their father’s employees; obviously the work atmosphere with Paul Teutul, Sr. was not a particularly happy one. Mikey’s eldest brother Paul Jr. was the former chief fabricator of OCC.
So actually the main source of Mikey Teutul’s wealth is not his father’s business, but the shows he eventually took part in. These have included ‘The Late Show with David Letterman”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, and also “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno. The shows became very popular and Mikey’s appearances earned him a significant amount of money. To say the least, the family drama did not go without consequences – according to rumours, Mikey Teutul was suffering from an addiction problem, and consequently admitted himself to rehab, and managed to overcome the bad habits which were apparently hindering his progress in life, obviously including business.
In his life away from the businesses already referred to and the limelight of TV, Michael loves to paint, and is apparently respected for his productions, as he opened “The Wolfgang Gallery” gallery in Montgomery, New York, where he has sold or auctioned his paintings, adding somewhat to is net worth, although rumours suggest that the gallery may now be closed. Most recently, Mikey is now trying to enter the market under the moniker LLC FarQueue Products with his line of gourmet pasta sauces. Good luck, Mikey!
In his less-than-private personal life, Mikey is apparently still single – there aren’t even any rumours of romantic liaisons.
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