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John Joseph Ricketts (born July 16, 1941) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the founder, former CEO and former chairman of TD Ameritrade . [ 3 ] He has an estimated net worth of US$4.1 billion as of 2024, according to Forbes . [ 4 ]
Joe Ricketts, the patriarch of the family that owns the Chicago Cubs, was connected to a massive collection of racist emails published Monday.
The American Film Company is a film production company founded in 2008 by Joe Ricketts. Ricketts previously founded TD Ameritrade and, with his family, owns the Chicago Cubs. [1] The American Film Company, founded on the belief that real life is often more compelling than fiction, produces feature films about true stories from America's past. [2]
J. Joe Ricketts – Chairman, TD Ameritrade According to Business Insider, Ricketts and his wife gave more than $20 million to GOP causes in 2020, and are again supporting the party in 2024.
In 1975, the company was founded as First Omaha Securities by Joe Ricketts. [2] In 1983, Ameritrade Clearing Inc. was established as a central counterparty clearing broker. [3] In 1988, the company introduced the first quote and order entry system via the push-button telephone. [3]
Other notables: Walmart heir Christy Walton ($11 billion); Ameritrade founder J. Joe Ricketts & family ($3 billion); B. Wayne Hughes Jr. ($2 billion), son of Public Storage cofounder B. Wayne ...
Ricketts's shutdown was criticized as being an act of retaliation after the two companies' workers had joined a union. [12] After DNAinfo shutdown, three of the Chicago newspaper's former editors decided to launch their own independent hyperlocal news organization. Within a few months, Block Club Chicago had raised more than $183,000 on ...
How they made their billions: Ricketts, 55, is the son of Joe Ricketts, an early online stock-trading pioneer and founder of the brokerage firm Ameritrade, which went public in 1997 and spent $2.9 ...