Alwaleed vs Brockman

Kingdom Holding Company and OpenAI.

The differences

Forbes puts Greg Brockman about $0.6B ahead of Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud.Forbes figures from 9 Oct 2026 and 9 Oct 2026.
Both started the company their money comes from.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud is about 32 years older than Greg Brockman.
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud is from Saudi Arabia; Greg Brockman is from United States.

Put someone else on either side

Alwaleed

Brockman

Net worth, Forbes: $24.9BForbes, 9 Oct 2026; $25.5BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
Net worth, Bloomberg: $26.3BBloomberg, 17 Oct 2026; $25.5BBloomberg, 17 Oct 2026
Forbes rank: No. 100Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026; No. 95Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
Billionaire since: Not stated; 2026Forbes called him the richest newcomer to its 2026 Forbes 400

How it started: Founded itFounded Kingdom Holding in 1980 after graduating from Menlo College, with a modest stake from his father; his best-known early deal was a Citicorp stake bought in 1991; Co-founded itLeft Stripe in 2015 to co-found OpenAI with Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever and others
Main source: Kingdom Holding stock, a personal SpaceX stake and Saudi propertyBloomberg's largest items: Kingdom Holding ($10.3 billion), SpaceX ($6.04 billion), Saudi property ($4.5 billion) and Rotana ($1.55 billion); OpenAI stockBloomberg credits him with a $25 billion OpenAI stake and $471.3 million in Stripe shares
Companies: Kingdom Holding CompanyKingdom Holding Company: Founder and chairman; OpenAIOpenAI: Co-founder and president
Biggest stake: Kingdom Holding Company78% owned; OpenAIStake not stated

Born: 7 Mar 1955; 1987Thompson, North Dakota, United States
Country: Saudi ArabiaLives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; United StatesLives in San Francisco, California, United States
Education: Graduate degreeBS business administration, Menlo College (1979); master's in social science, Syracuse University's Maxwell School (1985); Left university without a degreeLeft Harvard, then left MIT in his junior year to join Stripe in 2010
Parents: Son of Prince Talal bin Abdulaziz, a son of Saudi Arabia's founder who served as minister of communications and of finance, and Princess Mona El Solh, daughter of Lebanon's first prime minister; Son of two physicians

Giving Pledge: Signed in 2016; Not stated
Foundation: Alwaleed PhilanthropiesUmbrella for Alwaleed Philanthropies Global, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia; in 2015 he pledged his fortune to it; Not stated
Lifetime giving: $4BAlwaleed Philanthropies, 17 Oct 2026. '$4 Billion+ spent on social welfare' by Alwaleed Philanthropies over 39 years, as shown on its site; not a figure for his personal giving alone; Not stated

Role now: Chair of the boardFounder and chairman of Kingdom Holding Company; Runs the companyPresident of OpenAI
Successor: None named; Talal Ibrahim AlMaiman is Kingdom Holding's CEONo other family member is listed among Kingdom Holding's executives; Not stated
Public office: None found; None found
Legal record: 2018: Saudi Attorney GeneralReleased in January 2018 after more than two months' detention in a Saudi anti-corruption crackdown; a senior Saudi official said he reached a financial settlement with the attorney general; hours earlier he had told Reuters he expected to be cleared of wrongdoing.; None found