America's Richest Self-Made Women 2026

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🗓️ 14 June 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Rocket ships. AI chips. Chinese food. Clothing. Construction. Chatbots. America’s self-made women billionaires have found dozens of ways to prosper. In our first listing focusing just on those with 10-figure fortunes, Forbes found 43 self-made queens of capitalism, up from 38 a year ago as many of their businesses hit new highs. That’s despite the passing of two legendary women, Gap cofounder Doris Fisher (d. May 2026 at age 94) and Bio-Rad Laboratories' Alice Schwartz (d. September 2025, 99). Among the new billionaires are Beyonce Carter-Knowles, who climbs into the ranks on the back of her 2025 Cowboy Carter Tour; Nvidia CFO Colette Kress, who’s benefitting from the AI boom; Caryn Seidman-Becker, who runs Clear Secure, an ID technology outfit used for security checkpoints at airports, among other places; and Luana Lopes Lara, the 30-year-old Brazilian ballerina and MIT graduate who cofounded prediction market firm Kalshi. Edited by Andrea Murphy and Grace Chung Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.3	In an interview at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in May, Daniela Amade, president and co-founder of Anthropic, said, quote,
1:04.5	In some ways, I really think of myself as a generalist. If you look through my background,
1:09.0	you would say, what is this lady actually good at, right?
1:12.3	She doesn't have a law degree.
1:13.8	She's not a computer scientist.
1:15.7	But the ability to be curious, to learn across a lot of disciplines, and to have a strong
1:20.2	foundation of wanting to have impact, regardless of the area that you're working in,
1:24.8	I think that is an underrated quality.
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