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Grizzly Bulls’ Billionaires Index

⬅ # 560 Ruan Liping|# 562 Patrizio Bertelli ➡

# 561 Dagmar Dolby 

$5.42B

Real Time Net Worth
as of 7/25/2024
$21.3M (0.39%)

# 561 Dagmar Dolby 

$5.42B

Real Time Net Worth
as of 7/25/2024
$21.3M (0.39%)
OccupationPartial Owner, Dolby Laboratories
Source of WealthDolby Laboratories
Age83
ResidenceSan Francisco, California
Marital StatusWidowed
Children2
EducationBS, Heidelberg University
Age-Adjusted Net Worth$1.14B
Dagmar Dolby
Dagmar Dolby
United States
Net worth: $5.42B

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Biography

Overview

Dagmar Dolby, born in Germany around 1941/1942 as Dagmar Bäumert, is an American philanthropist billionaire.
She met her husband Ray Dolby in 1962 while he was studying physics as a Marshall Scholar at Cambridge University.
In 1966, Dagmar and Ray Dolby married, and they had two sons together.
Following Ray's founding of Dolby Laboratories in London in 1965, the couple moved to San Francisco in 1976, where Dolby Laboratories established its headquarters.
After Ray's passing in 2013, Dagmar assumed ownership of nearly half of Dolby Laboratories.
Dagmar Dolby resides in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco.

Philanthropy

Dagmar Dolby has been deeply involved in philanthropy, particularly after her husband's diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease around 2009.
The Dolby family donated generously to medical research, including $21 million to the California Pacific Medical Center in 2011 and $16 million in 2006 and $20 million in 2011 for stem cell research at the University of California-San Francisco.
In 2015, she donated $52.6 million to Cambridge University for the construction of the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Court.
She pledged over $160 million to the University of Cambridge since 2015, and in 2018, donated $20 million to UC San Francisco to establish the Dolby Family Center for Mood Disorders.
Dagmar Dolby became a signatory of The Giving Pledge in 2017, focusing on reproductive rights, stem cell research, and research on mood disorders and Alzheimer's disease.

Ownership and Contributions to Dolby Laboratories

Dagmar Dolby owns approximately 36% of Dolby Laboratories, which her late husband Ray Dolby founded in 1965.
Following Ray's death, she assumed ownership of nearly half of Dolby Laboratories.
Her son David serves as a board member at Dolby Labs, while her other son, Tom, pursues a career as a novelist and filmmaker.

Dolby Laboratories' History and Innovations

Dolby Laboratories, founded by Ray Dolby in 1965 in London, pioneered numerous audio technologies, including noise reduction and surround sound.
The company's innovations revolutionized film and audio industries, with its technologies utilized in thousands of films, products, video games, and mobile devices.
Dolby Labs moved its headquarters to the United States, specifically San Francisco, in 1976.
Over the years, Dolby Laboratories continued to innovate, introducing Dolby Stereo in 1975, Dolby Digital in 1992, Dolby Surround 7.1 in 2010, and Dolby Atmos in 2012.
In addition to film and entertainment, Dolby has expanded its technologies to music and developer platforms, launching Dolby.io in May 2020.

How long would it take you to become as rich as Dagmar Dolby?

If you started with $10,000 and invested an additional $500 each month at a 44.11% CAGR, it would take you 5 years to reach Dagmar Dolby's net worth of $5.42B.

Is this realistic? It depends how closely the VIX-TA-Macro Advanced model performs to its history in the future. Since Grizzly Bulls launched on January 1, 2022, it's returned 52.22% compared to 16.62% for the S&P 500 benchmark.

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Dagmar Dolby is very wealthy, but what's stopping you from reaching that same level of success? As summarized in our five fundamental rules to wealth building, becoming wealthy in a modern capitalist economy is not complicated. There's actually only three variables:

  1. Your starting capital
  2. Your earnings after expenses
  3. The compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of your savings

Most people start with zero or very little, so if you weren't born into wealth, don't fret! The majority of the fortunate folks listed in our Grizzly Bulls’ Billionaires Index came from middle class or lower backgrounds. The most distinguishing characteristic of the group is their ability to consistently earn a high CAGR on their savings.

Every billionaire has a unique strategy to achieve high CAGR. For Dagmar Dolby, Dolby Laboratories is the primary source. Whether you choose to invest your savings in your own businesses or the businesses of others is not as important. The salient piece of the puzzle is ensuring that your hard-earned savings are generating sufficient CAGR to reach your long term goals.

Most people simply invest their money in index funds and call it a day. There's nothing wrong with this approach, but it guarantees relative mediocrity. To achieve greatness, you need to invest your money to earn higher than average returns. In the long run, better investors will always finish ahead of better earners.

Source: Grizzly Bulls reporting

Methodology: Grizzly Bulls' Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world's billionaires and richest people. Grizzly Bulls strives to provide the most accurate net worth calculations available. We pull data from public equity markets, SEC filings, public real estate records, and other reputable sources.

The index is dynamic and updates daily at the close of U.S. stock market trading based on changes in the markets, economy, and updates to Grizzly Bulls' proprietary algorithm of personal wealth calculation. Stakes in public companies are tracked daily based on the relevant closing prices of the underlying securities. Additionally, stakes in private companies, cash, real estate, and other less easily valued assets are updated periodically through careful analysis of insider transactions, comparable public company sales / EBITDA multiples, etc.

Edited by: Lee Bailey