JoeBen Bevirt

JoeBen Bevirt (#3388)

Global Rank #3388

Country Rank #1,027

Country United States

JoeBen Bevirt is listed among the world billionaires tracked by Iconic Billionaires.

$ 1 B
Electric aviation
United States
M
52 Years

Snapshot

Quick Facts

Global Rank #3,388

Country Rank #1,027

Net Worth $0.9B

Previous Worth $1.1B

Worth Change -$0.2B

Country United States

Industry Electric aviation

Age 52 Years

Gender M

Worth As Of May 7, 2026

Residence Santa Cruz, California

Citizenship United States

World Billionaires List United States Billionaires Electric aviation

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Personal Stats

Age 52

Source Of Wealth Electric aviation, Self Made

Residence Santa Cruz, California

Citizenship United States

Net Worth Change -$0.2B -18.2% from previous worth

Previous Net Worth $1.1B

Current Net Worth $0.9B

Worth as of May 7, 2026

About Me

JoeBen Bevirt is the founder and CEO of Joby Aviation, which is developing aircraft capable of taking off and landing vertically. Raised on an off-the-grid commune in California, as a kid Bevirt dreamed of planes that could maneuver like helicopters, and went on to study engineering at the University of California at Davis and Stanford. He launched Joby in 2009 after first founding Velocity11, which built liquid-handling robots used for testing potential drugs, and the company behind GorillaPod, a flexible camera tripod. He raised funds from the likes of carmaker Toyota, Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective and Jeff Skoll's Capricorn Investment Group, and took Joby public via SPAC merger in 2021.

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Did You Know?

Bevirt's father was a member of author Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters group. He's named JoeBen after a character in Kesey's novel "Sometimes a Great Notion."

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