Co-Founders of Home Depot See Their Wealth Rise in Pandemic

Chattanooga, TN, August 7, 2020-Tennessee and Georgia has 20 billionaires who collectively saw their wealth increase by nearly $19 billion, or nearly 29%, during the first three months of the COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns in the United States, reports that Chattanooga Times Free Press. 

Two of these are the co-founders of Home Depot, Bernard Marcus, whose net worth rose from $4.6 billion to nearly $7.03 billion, and Arthur Blank, whose net worth rose from $4.6 billion to over $5.7 billion.