Andy Mills

Source of wealth: Medical supplies

65 years male Healthcare 🇺🇸 US

Net Worth

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The scale of their wealth

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Health

The price of life

Let's compare Andy Mills's fortune with the healthcare spending of a massive country

Andy Mills could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo, with a population of over 105,800,000 people, for approximately 2.3 years.

But even if we compare their fortune with that of a rich country

On the other end, Andy Mills could cover the healthcare spending of Luxembourg, considered the most heavily funded healthcare system in the world, for 1.0 years.

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Education

Buying the future

Let's also compare their fortune with education spending, first with a poor country

Andy Mills could cover the total cost of Nigeria's education system, the most populous country in Africa with over 243,000,000 inhabitants, for 1.5 years.

And yes, we can also compare it with a rich country

But they couldn't just cover the cost of a poor country; Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, and Andy Mills could pay for it entirely for 2.1 years.

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Research

The monopoly on progress

Coming full circle, we think it's also interesting to add another gigantic country

Andy Mills could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with over 260,000,000 inhabitants, for 8.7 years.

And of course, the country that invests the most per capita worldwide

But even if we compare the total wealth of Andy Mills with Israel, the country that invests the most per capita in research in the world, they could cover the total cost of the system for 0.2 years.

While billions of people struggle to access basic healthcare, education, and research, a single individual could fund entire national systems for centuries.

Gold

Everyday luxuries

Andy Mills's fortune is equivalent to 36 tons of gold. It's hard to process, since we don't usually keep a handful of gold bars in our piggy banks.

A standard gold ring usually weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18 karats.

Based on today's gold price (excluding the jeweler's commission, shipping, or anything else), that ring would be worth $546.86.

Andy Mills could buy 9,472,932 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and way too many gifts!!

And if you're struggling to visualize that many rings, it would take 2 trucks to transport them. Although Andy Mills will almost certainly have enough money left over to pay for the gas.

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Biography

Andy Mills is a director and former president of Illinois-based medical supplies giant Medline, which his father and uncle founded in 1966.

Mills and his extended family, which includes four other billionaires, own roughly 17% of the company, which IPO'd on the Nasdaq in December 2025 and ended its first trading day with a market cap of more than $55 billion.

The Mills family previously sold 79% of Medline to a group of private equity firms in a leveraged buyout that valued the company at more than $30 billion in 2021.

Andy Mills served as Medline's president for 26 years until 2023, while his cousin Charlie Mills served as CEO during that same period. Charlie Mills still serves as the company's chairman.

Andy Mills' brother-in-law Jim Abrams served as chief operating officer of Medline from 1997 to 2023. The company is now run by non-family executives.