Brockman vs Murdoch
OpenAI and News Corp.
The differences
- Forbes puts Greg Brockman about $0.4B ahead of Rupert Murdoch.Forbes figures from 9 Oct 2026 and 9 Oct 2026.
- Greg Brockman: co-founded it. Rupert Murdoch: inherited and grew it.
- Rupert Murdoch is about 56 years older than Greg Brockman.
Put someone else on either side
Side by side
Brockman
MurdochThe money
- Net worth, Forbes
- $25.5BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
- $25.1BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
- Net worth, Bloomberg
- $25.5BBloomberg, 17 Oct 2026
- $20.7BBloomberg, 10 Oct 2026
- Forbes rank
- No. 95Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
- No. 98Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
- Billionaire since
- 2026Forbes called him the richest newcomer to its 2026 Forbes 400
- Not stated
Where it came from
- How it started
- Co-founded itLeft Stripe in 2015 to co-found OpenAI with Sam Altman, Elon Musk, Ilya Sutskever and others
- Inherited and grew itInherited his father's interests in the Adelaide newspaper The News in 1952 and expanded News Limited into a global media business
- Main source
- OpenAI stockBloomberg credits him with a $25 billion OpenAI stake and $471.3 million in Stripe shares
- Family stakes in News Corp and Fox Corporation, held largely through LGC Holdco, plus cashBloomberg also counts real estate at purchase prices
- Companies
- OpenAIOpenAI: Co-founder and president
- News Corp, Fox CorporationNews Corp: Chairman emeritus; Fox Corporation: Chairman emeritus
- Biggest stake
- OpenAIStake not stated
- News CorpStake not stated
The person
- Born
- 1987Thompson, North Dakota, United States
- 11 Mar 1931Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Country
- United StatesLives in San Francisco, California, United States
- United StatesLives in New York, New York, United States
- Education
- Left university without a degreeLeft Harvard, then left MIT in his junior year to join Stripe in 2010
- Bachelor's degreeMA, Worcester College, University of Oxford (1953)
- Parents
- Son of two physicians
- Father Sir Keith Murdoch was a journalist and newspaper publisher; mother Elisabeth Murdoch was a philanthropist
What they give
- Giving Pledge
- Not stated
- Not a signer
- Foundation
- Not stated
- Not stated
- Lifetime giving
- Not stated
- Not stated
Role and record
- Role now
- Runs the companyPresident of OpenAI
- RetiredChairman emeritus of News Corp and Fox Corporation
- Successor
- Not stated
- His son Lachlan Murdoch, chair of News Corp and executive chair and CEO of Fox Corporation
- Public office
- None found
- None found
- Legal record
- None found
- 2024: Nevada probate commissioner (Second Judicial District Court)A probate commissioner rejected his attempt to amend the irrevocable Murdoch family trust and concluded that he and Lachlan Murdoch had acted in bad faith; the trust litigation was resolved in 2025.
