Baron Capital Group founder Ron Baron has an estimated net worth of $2.1billion as of April 2016 according to Forbes.

Baron attended Bucknell University where he completed his degree in Chemistry. Eventually, he enrolled himself at George Washington University Law School for night time study with the aid of a scholarship. From 1970 to 1982, he moved from one brokerage firm to another. Through time, he began investing in some small-time and unloved companies.

In 1982, he founded Baron Capital Management which is an investment management firm based in New York. As of 2006, the firm was estimated to have a market value of $16 billion with over 700 thousand investors. Currently, Baron Capital Management manages $18.2 billion worth of assets. In 2007, he bought a 40-acre estate for $103 million. It was considered as one of the largest estates in Hamptons.