Samueli is a co-founder of Broadcom Corp, the semiconductor and infrastructure software company that reported revenue of $63.9 billion in 2025. The billionaire has at least 75 patents to his name for high-speed communication technology. He also owns the Anaheim Ducks, a team in the National Hockey League.
The majority of Samueli's fortune comes from his stake in Broadcom Inc, a semiconductor and software company with revenue of $51.6 billion in 2024. Samueli owns about 2% of the company's stock, according to a March 2026 Form 4 filing.
About 16.2 million of Samueli's shares had been pledged as collateral to secure a loan, according to the 2026 proxy statement. As of August 2025, the value of Samueli's pledged shares are represented by a fixed liability based on the loan-to-value ratio of the secured debt, rather than omitting the full value of the shares, based on an analysis of the proxy statement. This update resulted in a net worth increase of $2.9 billion.
Samueli received more than $1.2 billion from the sale of his Broadcom Corp. stake to Avago on Feb. 2, 2016. His cash holdings include the sale proceeds and reflect an analysis of dividends, insider transactions, taxes and market performance.
He also owns the Anaheim Ducks, a professional ice hockey team. It's valued at $1.59 billion based on an October 2025 report from valuation consultant Sportico.
Sue Stein, a spokesperson for Samueli's family office, declined to comment on his net worth.
Henry Samueli was born in Buffalo, New York in 1954 and began attending the University of California, Los Angeles when he was 16, according to a biography published in the Orange County Register.
At UCLA, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering, specializing in high-speed digital integrated circuits. He completed a PhD in 1980 and later went to work for TRW Inc.
Samueli returned to UCLA as a professor and with his first PhD student, Henry Nicholas, started semiconductor company Broadcom in 1991. Though he initially intended to remain in his role as a professor and work for the company part-time, according to an interview with AllThingsD, he went on a leave of absence from his professorship in 1995.
In 1998, Broadcom went public, raising over $78 million, according to an Los Angeles Times report from the time. By 2012, its annual revenue exceeded $8 billion. Avago Technologies acquired Broadcom in 2016 for $37 billion.
Samueli and his wife, Susan, bought the Mighty Ducks hockey team from Disney in 2005, renaming it the Anaheim Ducks in 2006. The Ducks won the Stanley Cup in 2007 under the new leadership.
Samueli has committed more than $500 million to philanthropy since 1998, according to the University of California Irvine. He has signed the Giving Pledge agreeing to donate at least half of his wealth. Samueli and his family live in Newport Beach, California.