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age of 40 in the United States. The 2008 Forbes 400 List listed Waitt with a net worth estimated at $ 1.4 billion. Waitt fell off the Forbes 400 list in 2009 with a net worth estimate of $ 900 million. Forbes speculated that the drop from the previous year was as a result of "souring real estate" and a divorce settlement.
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Labeled a maverick by national business and technology publications, he has gone on to form four enterprises that are his chief interests: Avalon
Capital Group, Inc., a wholly owned, billion-dollar private investment company with diverse interests in technology, health care, energy, finance, and real
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prevention and community development. The Waitt
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Waitt has been featured on numerous lists by Forbes magazine. He has held a spot on both the Forbes 400 Richest in
America as well as Forbes list of the World's Billionaires. He has also been listed on Fortune Magazines "40 Richest Under 40", a list of the 40 wealthiest self-made Americans under the
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released a list of all contributors. It included
Theodore Waitt, who gave between US$ 10–25 million. On April 23, 2011, the Sioux City Public Museum had its grand opening. $ 4 million of its $ 13 million development budget was donated by the Waitt Foundation.
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named Waitt one of
America's 50 most generous philanthropists due to his work with the Waitt Foundation. The Foundation funds partnerships and projects, sometimes in conjunction or collaboration with the Waitt Institutes, focused on marine conservation.
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November 1, 2019, the Blue Prosperity Coalition announced a ten-year, $ 150 million commitment from the Waitt Foundation towards its ocean conservation efforts. On 15 Sept, 2016, the Waitt Foundation joined with the
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estate; and the Waitt
Foundation, Waitt Institute and Waitt Institute for Violence Prevention, nonprofit organizations dedicated to the improvement of mankind's knowledge through historical and scientific exploration.
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Board of
Trustees from November 28, 2016, until November 20, 2017. He originally joined the Salk Board of Trustees in 2004 and has served in numerous roles while donating millions of dollars to the institute.
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with a $ 10,000 loan secured by Waitt's grandmother. The company began on Waitt's father's cattle ranch in
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On September 5, 1985, Waitt, his brother Norm Jr., and Mike Hammond started
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Waitt led a move of the company's headquarters from
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