Zeng vs Schwarzman
CATL and Blackstone.
The differences
- Forbes puts Robin Zeng about $1B ahead of Stephen Schwarzman.Forbes figures from 9 Oct 2026 and 9 Sep 2026.
- Both started the company their money comes from.
- Stephen Schwarzman is about 21 years older than Robin Zeng.
- Stephen Schwarzman has signed the Giving Pledge; Robin Zeng has not.
- Robin Zeng is from Hong Kong; Stephen Schwarzman is from United States.
Put someone else on either side
Side by side
Zeng
SchwarzmanThe money
- Net worth, Forbes
- $45.8BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
- $44.8BForbes, 9 Sep 2026
- Net worth, Bloomberg
- $54.6BBloomberg, 16 Jan 2026
- $44.5BBloomberg, 17 Oct 2026
- Forbes rank
- No. 44Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
- No. 47Real-Time list, 9 Sep 2026
- Billionaire since
- 2019Forbes listed him with $5.9 billion among the new billionaires on its 2019 China's 400 Richest list; his first global-list year isn't in the cited sources
- 2007On the Forbes World's Billionaires list in 2007 with $3.5 billion
Where it came from
- How it started
- Founded itFounded CATL in December 2011, spun off from Amperex Technology
- Co-founded itCo-founded Blackstone in 1985 with Peter Peterson
- Main source
- CATL stockBloomberg: most of his fortune is his CATL stake
- BlackstoneBloomberg names Blackstone (BX) stock as his biggest asset
- Companies
- CATLCATL: Founder, chairman, executive director and general manager
- BlackstoneBlackstone: Chairman, CEO and co-founder
- Biggest stake
- CATL22.45% owned
- Blackstone19% owned
The person
- Born
- 1968Ningde, Fujian, China
- 14 Feb 1947Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Country
- Hong KongLives in Ningde, China
- United StatesLives in New York, New York, United States
- Education
- Graduate degreePhD in condensed matter physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Graduate degreeBA, Yale University; MBA, Harvard Business School
- Parents
- Not stated
- His father owned a dry-goods store in Philadelphia, one of the family's stores going back to his great-grandfather
What they give
- Giving Pledge
- Not a signer
- Signed in 2020
- Foundation
- Not stated
- Stephen A. Schwarzman FoundationDescribed as the primary vehicle for his giving
- Lifetime giving
- Not stated
- $1BStephen A. Schwarzman Foundation, 22 Dec 2025. 'Over $1 billion in his lifetime so far', per his foundation; Forbes estimated more than $600 million in December 2020
Role and record
- Role now
- Runs the companyChairman, executive director and general manager of CATL
- Runs the companyChairman and CEO of Blackstone
- Successor
- Not stated
- None namedJonathan Gray is president and chief operating officer and a board member; no family members in executive roles
- Public office
- None found
- Chairman of the President's Strategic and Policy Forum2016-2017
- Legal record
- None found
- None found
