Dallas visionary joins 18 DFW billionaires on new Forbes’ richest list

Sep 15, 2026 | 3:47 pm

The richest billionaires in America have a collective worth of $8 trillion in 2026, a staggering $1.4 trillion increase since last year, says Forbes. And the Dallas-based billionaire best known for starting a company to resurrect the long-extinct woolly mammoth has become one of the richest people in America.

Biotech “serial entrepreneur” Ben Lamm, cofounder of Colossal Biosciences, has made his debut as one of the country’s richest residents for 2026, according to the just-released Forbes 400.

The annual Forbes 400 list is a definitive ranking of the wealthiest Americans, using interviews, financial data, and documentation provided by billionaires and their companies. In all, 43 billionaires across Texas made it on the 2026 list, and 19 are based in Dallas-Fort Worth…

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