Bob parsons net worth

Bob parsons net worth, American entrepreneur, Robert “Bob” Parsons has a net worth of $1.5 billion as of March 2012, according Forbes’ list of billionaires. He is the CEO and founder of The Go Daddy Group, Inc. Parsons has used racy Super Bowl ads and sponsorship of Nascar’s Danica Patrick to help build his Go Daddy into the world’s largest web hosting provider with more than 5 million active accounts and more than 49 million domain names.

Now he’s selling the majority of the firm to strategic investors KKR, Silver Lake and TCV in a deal that values the firm at more than $2 billion. The Go Daddy Group, Inc, include other domain names of Wild West Domains and Blue Razor Domains, and affiliate Domains by Proxy Inc.

He was born on November 27, 1950 in Baltimore, Maryland, he holds an accounting degree from the University of Baltimore, was enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He was assigned to the 26th Marine Regiment which was attached to and operated as part of the 1st Marine Division. In 1969 he served as a rifleman in the Delta Company of the 1st Battalion, 26th Marines, during a tour of duty in Vietnam.