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Machinima Net Worth
Machinima 's Net Worth as of 2024
$102 million
Machinima, Inc. was founded in January 2000, in Los Angeles, California, USA, and is a YouTube network founded by Hugh Hancock, mostly focused on gaming. The company name means videos that manipulate video game technology to create animation. Since its inception, Machinima has been available through numerous platforms such as iOS, Android, Facebook and Twitter. All of their efforts have helped put the company’s net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Machinima? As of late-2017, sources estimate a net worth that is at $102 million, earned through the success of their various endeavors. The company is a subsidiary of Warner Bros.
Machinima Net Worth $102 million
Digital Networks, and as it continues operations, it is expected that the value will also continue to increase.
Machinima has been used popularly since the late 1990s, initially for “Quake III Arena” when users started to record animated videos through Machinima. This led Hugh to found the company mainly for video makers who used video games as a medium. They started with interviews, tutorials and articles, before venturing to create their own productions. Their first original production was “Quad God”, which helped solidify Machinima as a network. Eventually, they ventured into using other game engines including the “Unreal Tournament” “Unreal” engine.
Hancock would stay with the company until 2006, when he decided to resign as editor in chief of the company, and control was transferred to the staff, which led to the transformation of the network to what it is now. The website focused a lot on entertainment programming and gamer lifestyle videos, mainly dedicating their releases through YouTube. In 2012, Google invested $35 million into Machinima, increasing the network’s net worth significantly, and led to start creating original series and movies once again. In 2014, it was Warner Bros that started funding Machinima, which eventually led its acquisition in 2016.
Some of Machinima’s most popular programs include “Inside Gaming”, which is a coverage of gaming news and previews, and has proven to be one of the most popular shows on the network. There was also “ETC News” which is an entertainment news show which started in 2010. Machinima also began endeavors into streaming via Twitch, which included gameplay events, conventions, and also play-throughs of various popular games. They then branched out to create “Machinima Respawn” which became a more gameplay-focused channel. A few of the most popular original series Machinima has created include “Mortal Kombat: Legacy’, “Terminator Salvation: The Machinima Series”, and “Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist”. They also created “Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles”, “Transformers: Combiner Wars”, and “#4Hero”, all adding steadily to the company’s net worth.
Machinima has had its share of controversies, including using perpetual contracts. They have been criticized by various YouTube personalities for a lack of transparency, and alleged use of advertisements without permission, plus deceptive advertising now settled with the Federal Trade Commission.
Machinima, Inc’s chairman is Allen DeBevoise and the CEO is Former Ovation COO Chad Gutsein. Hugh Hancock has since transitioned to create “Strange Company” which consists of machinima creators.
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Ben Stein Net Worth
Benjamin Jeremy Stein is an American lawyer, speechwriter, actor, writer and commentator on economic and political issues, but he is also known for participating in many other activities. For example, Ben Stein has even tried himself as a game show host. This famous person in American economics and politics was born on November 25 in 1944 in Washington, D.C., United States during World War II. He attended Columbia College and later Yale Law School. After graduation Ben Stein started to write columns and articles for different US magazines such as Newsmax, Los Angeles Magazine, Penthouse, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s Magazine, The American Spectator and even for The New York Times.
Ben Stein Net Worth $20 Million
In his writings Stein usually speaks about the economic situation and political issues, and even gives financial advices to individual investors. However, in the mid-60s he also got the job of a poverty lawyer and later continued as a lawyer for the Federal Trade Comission. After few years of hard work, Ben Stein decided to try himself in acting too, but before starting to get roles he became a Hollywood consultant. Stein got his first comedy role and had to play a boring and monotonous economics teacher in the movie called Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, which was released in 1986. As an actor Ben Stein has since appeared in many other movies, such as The Mask, No Intelligence Allowed, Ghostbusters, Ghostbusters II, The Emperor’s New School, Full House, Casper: A Spirited Beginning, The O’Reilly Factor, Maried… with Children, Duckman, The Emperor’s New Schol, Earthworm Jim, Casper Meets Wendy, Family Guy and Richie Rich.
The famous actor and commentator is also recognized thanks to the Comedy Central channel where he was the main face of the show called “Win Ben Stein’s Money” for which he has even received an Emmy award. Ben Stein was earning $5,000 per episode, but money that contestants won was subtracted from actor’s salary. However, these earnings are just nothing if we compare them with Stein’s net worth, which reached $20 million in 2012.
Ben Stein is well known thanks to his ability to harmonize all his activities and show himself as a talented person in every job he does. But maybe one of his most successful, but not so well-known activities is writing speeches for American presidents. Ben Stein was a speechwriter for Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Until now Ben Stein has published 15 books, the first written together with Herbert Stein and released in 1978. In 2012 his last book appeared in stores – “How To Really Ruin Your Financial Life and Portfolio”.
Nowadays Ben Stein lives with his wife Alexandra Denman in Beverly Hills and Malibu, California. The couple married in 1968 and divorced after 6 years, but in 1977 they got back together again. With his wife Ben Stein adopted their son Tom in 1987. As well as his property in Beverly Hills, Ben Stein also owns a summer home in Sandpoint, Idaho and an apartment in the Watergate complex in Washingtton, D.C., which was inherited from his parents.
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Mikey Teutul Net Worth
Michael Joseph was born 26 November 1978, in Montgomery, New York State USA, and widely known as Mikey Teutul, is a reality television personality, the youngest son of Orange County Choppers founder Paul Teutul, Sr. Mikey began his working life at 14, in the family business.
So just how rich is Mikey Teutul, as of late 2017? Authoritative sources estimate that Mikey has a net worth of over $3 million dollars, largely earned by working at his father’s and older brother Paul Jr,’s company Orange County Choppers (OCC), and Orange County Iron Works, and through his TV appearances.
Mikey Teutul Net Worth $3 Million
Little is known of Mikey’s early life or education – it seems to have always revolved around the family business. Helping out his family in his teens, theoretically he worked as Assistant General Manager. but his main duties were to answer ‘phones, and clear-up and take out the trash. He was on rare occasions given the chance to build bikes, until he was competent to build his own. He also attended events for promoting OCC.
In 2002, the family was invited to take part in a reality show, Discovery Channel’s “American Chopper”, and subsequently “American Chopper: Senior vs. Junior”, in the course of which the youngest son was thrown out of the business – the middle son is Daniel, and younger sister Cristin. The reason for Mikey’s exclusion was that Mikey tried to be a mediator between his father and his brother, but his father seemed to be offended that his younger son did not take his side, and so threw him out of the business. During the filming of the show, Mikey was somethoing of a comedy relief to his father’s workers, and that comedy streak helped gain him popularity in TV shows. Mikey then joined his brother’s post-OCC venture, -Paul Jr Designs – along with most of their father’s employees; obviously the work atmosphere with Paul Teutul, Sr. was not a particularly happy one. Mikey’s eldest brother Paul Jr. was the former chief fabricator of OCC.
So actually the main source of Mikey Teutul’s wealth is not his father’s business, but the shows he eventually took part in. These have included ‘The Late Show with David Letterman”, “Late Night with Conan O’Brien”, and also “The Tonight Show” with Jay Leno. The shows became very popular and Mikey’s appearances earned him a significant amount of money. To say the least, the family drama did not go without consequences – according to rumours, Mikey Teutul was suffering from an addiction problem, and consequently admitted himself to rehab, and managed to overcome the bad habits which were apparently hindering his progress in life, obviously including business.
In his life away from the businesses already referred to and the limelight of TV, Michael loves to paint, and is apparently respected for his productions, as he opened “The Wolfgang Gallery” gallery in Montgomery, New York, where he has sold or auctioned his paintings, adding somewhat to is net worth, although rumours suggest that the gallery may now be closed. Most recently, Mikey is now trying to enter the market under the moniker LLC FarQueue Products with his line of gourmet pasta sauces. Good luck, Mikey!
In his less-than-private personal life, Mikey is apparently still single – there aren’t even any rumours of romantic liaisons.
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