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Grizzly Bulls’ Billionaires Index

⬅ # 783 Masahiro Miki|# 785 Steven Klinsky ➡

# 784 Juan Carlos Escotet 

$4.30B

Real Time Net Worth
as of 12/19/2024
-$138 (-0.00%)

# 784 Juan Carlos Escotet 

$4.30B

Real Time Net Worth
as of 12/19/2024
-$138 (-0.00%)
OccupationFounder and Chair, Banesco
Source of WealthBanking
Age65
ResidenceA Coruña, Spain
Marital StatusMarried
Children4
EducationMaster, University of Miami
Age-Adjusted Net Worth$3.06B
Juan Carlos Escotet
Juan Carlos Escotet
Venezuela
Net worth: $4.30B

Self-Made Score 

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Wealth History

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Biography

Overview

Juan Carlos Escotet Rodríguez is a Spanish-Venezuelan billionaire banker and the founder of Banesco, the largest private financial institution in Venezuela.
He began his career as a messenger for Banco Union in Venezuela at 17 and later founded his brokerage firm while studying economics.
Escotet's rise to wealth came through strategic acquisitions and mergers, expanding Banesco's presence across multiple countries.

Early Life Education

Juan Carlos Escotet was born in Madrid in 1959 and grew up as one of eight immigrant children in Spain.
He began working for Banco Union in Venezuela in 1976 while attending night school.
Escotet earned a master's degree in professional management science from the University of Miami School of Business.

Career

After earning his MBA, Escotet worked for Sociedad Financiera Latinoamericana before founding his financial group.
In the 1990s, he acquired struggling Venezuelan financial institutions amidst a crisis and expanded to Panama.
Escotet founded Banesco, now Venezuela's largest private financial institution, and later acquired NCG Banco, renaming it Abanca.

Business Expansion

Banesco, founded in 1977 as the Venezuelan Agroindustrial Bank, evolved into a universal bank by acquiring and merging with other entities.
The bank expanded its services into mortgages, mutual funds, leasing, insurance, and international banking.
Escotet oversaw significant mergers and acquisitions, consolidating Banesco's position as a leading financial institution in Venezuela and abroad.

Juan Carlos Escotet's Wealth is Equivalent to:

3,307,929 Herman Miller Aeron Chairs

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813,056 Gold Bars (50 gram)

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43,916 Tiny Homes

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How long would it take you to become as rich as Juan Carlos Escotet?

If you started with $10,000 and invested an additional $500 each month at a 42.79% CAGR, it would take you 5 years to reach Juan Carlos Escotet's net worth of $4.30B.

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 66.02% compared to 28.56% for the S&P 500 benchmark.

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Juan Carlos Escotet 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 Juan Carlos Escotet, Banking 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.

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Edited by: Lee Bailey