Robert Pera
Source of wealth: Wireless networking
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Biography
Robert Pera is the founder and CEO of wireless equipment maker Ubiquiti Networks.
Ubiquiti, which had revenue of $2.6 billion in fiscal 2025, sells wireless broadband systems with a focus on emerging markets.
Pera owns 93% of the publicly traded firm.
Pera started his career at Apple in 2003, and within 10 months on the job, founded Ubiquiti. He left Apple to work at Ubiquiti full time in 2005.
Pera bought the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies in 2012, making him the youngest controlling owner in the league at the time.
Perspective on their fortune
Gold
Everyday luxury
A Robert Pera's fortune is equivalent to 214 of gold, but this may be difficult to value, as we don't usually have a handful of gold bars in our piggy bank.
A standard gold ring typically weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18k gold.
Based on today's gold price (not taking into account the jeweler's fee, shipping, or anything else), that gold ring would be worth $556.3
Robert Pera could buy 56,937,350 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and a lot of gifts!!
And if the number of rings is difficult to visualize, all these rings would need 10 trucks to transport them, But we can be almost certain that Robert Pera will have enough left over to pay for the gas for those trucks.
Health
The price of life
Let's compare Robert Pera's fortune with the healthcare spending of a huge country
Robert Pera could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo with a population of over 105,800,000 of inhabitants for approximately 14.3 years.
But even if we compare their fortune to that of a rich country
At the other extreme, Robert Pera could cover the health expenditure of Luxembourg, considered the world's most heavily invested health system, for 6.3 years
Education
Buying the future
Lowest education spending
Robert Pera could assume the entire cost of the education system of Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, with more than 243,000,000 inhabitants for 9.3 years.
Highest education spending
But not only could he assume the cost of a poor country, Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, Robert Pera could pay for it in full for 12.7 years.
Research
The monopoly of progress
Lowest research spending
Robert Pera could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with more than 260,000,000 of inhabitants, for 53.3 years.
Highest research spending
But even if we compare the total wealth of Robert Pera with Israel, the country that currently invests the most per capita in research in the world, it could assume the total cost of the system for 1.2 years.
Financial Assets
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Monthly wealth history
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