George Kurtz Net Worth 2026: The CrowdStrike Billions

George Kurtz’s net worth is estimated at $11.9 billion by Forbes, which ranked him #265 in the world on its real-time billionaires list in early July 2026. That figure is an outside estimate, not a disclosed number. What is documented is his CrowdStrike stock: his most recent SEC Form 4, covering sales on July 22–23, 2026, shows 8,143,544 shares held directly plus 400,000 shares in the Kurtz Family Dynasty Trust.

At CrowdStrike’s July 31, 2026 close of $190.86, those 8.54 million shares are worth about $1.63 billion. The gap between that and Forbes’ $11.9 billion is the whole story of how founder wealth gets counted. Here is what each number rests on, and what moves it.

George Kurtz net worth: quick facts (August 2026)

Why the estimates disagree so much

Forbes says $11.9 billion. Trackers that add up only what appears on SEC Form 4 filings say far less: GuruFocus put his holdings at roughly 8.5 million shares “worth over $1.6 billion” in August 2026, and Quiver Quantitative listed about 8.1 million shares and a floor estimate near $2.0 billion in late July 2026. None of these are wrong; they measure different things.

Form 4 filings capture what an insider owns directly plus what he reports as indirectly held. They do not capture cash, diversified investments, private real estate, or shares that have already left his hands. Three things pulled a large amount of stock off Kurtz’s Form 4 line:

• Gifts. Bloomberg reported in May 2025 that Kurtz had disclosed gifting more than $1 billion of CrowdStrike stock to undisclosed recipients. Combined with CrowdStrike’s dual-class sunset, his voting power fell from about 31% in 2022 to roughly 2.5%.
• Structured selling. He has sold steadily under Rule 10b5-1 plans since 2021. GuruFocus counted 68 insider transactions over the 18 months to August 2026, all sales, totalling roughly 562,000 shares.
• Dilution. With about 1.02 billion shares outstanding after the 4-for-1 split, Kurtz’s 8.54 million shares are roughly 0.84% of the company. Forbes’ $11.9 billion implies about 6% of a $194 billion company, far more than his filings show.

The honest reading: the documented, verifiable slice of his fortune is about $1.6 billion in CrowdStrike stock. Forbes’ larger figure reflects its own accounting of trusts, past sale proceeds and outside assets, and it does not publish the line items. Treat any single confident founder net worth figure as a model output, not a bank balance.

How a founder’s stake turns into a net worth number

The arithmetic is simple. The uncertainty is not.

1. Count the shares. 8,143,544 direct + 400,000 in trust = 8,543,544 shares.
2. Multiply by the market price. 8,543,544 × $190.86 = about $1.63 billion.
3. Subtract what is owed. Founders often pledge shares as loan collateral; Forbes discounted Kurtz’s IPO-day fortune for exactly that in 2019.
4. Subtract tax. On a near-zero cost basis, a sale hands a large slice of the proceeds to the IRS.
5. Add everything else. Cash, property, private stakes. This is the part outsiders guess at.

Because step two dominates, the number moves every trading day. Here is what the same share count is worth at different prices:

A swing that wide in months is normal for a stock trading near 38 times trailing sales. That is the trade-off illiquid founder wealth carries: it compounds fast, drops fast, and none of it is spendable without a filing. It is the opposite of the liquid cushion an operating business needs on hand, which is why net working capital and personal net worth are measured so differently.

Career and wealth milestones

What CrowdStrike is worth now, and why

The company is bigger than it has ever been. In its first quarter of fiscal 2027, reported June 3, 2026, CrowdStrike posted revenue of $1.39 billion, up 26% year over year, and annual recurring revenue of $5.51 billion as of April 30, 2026, up 24%. It swung to GAAP net income of $27.8 million from a $104.3 million loss a year earlier and generated record free cash flow of $468 million. Full-year fiscal 2027 revenue guidance is $5.91 billion to $5.96 billion.

For the fiscal year ended January 31, 2026, revenue was $4.81 billion, up 22%, with ending ARR of $5.25 billion. Alongside the Q1 results the board approved the four-for-one split, effective for trading on July 2, 2026. Splits do not create value, but CRWD was up more than 64% over the prior 52 weeks going into August 2026.

His 2026 pay package: $247.6 million

CrowdStrike’s proxy statement filed May 5, 2026 disclosed total fiscal 2026 compensation for Kurtz of about $247.6 million. Almost none of that is cash. The components that are public:

• Base salary: $1,100,000, effective February 1, 2025, approved by the board on April 23, 2025.
• Target incentive: 135% of base salary under the Corporate Incentive Plan.
• Equity: a December 22, 2025 grant of 300,000 target performance stock units (pre-split), which can pay out between zero and 600,000 shares. Payout depends on CrowdStrike’s total shareholder return against the S&P 500 over three years: nothing below the 25th percentile, 50% of target at the 25th, and 200% at the 90th percentile or above. CrowdStrike’s share price at the grant date was $483.14, with a $121.3 billion market cap.

For comparison, fiscal 2025 total pay was $35,195,300, including $1,000,000 of salary and $31,850,681 of stock awards, or 158 times the median employee’s $222,761. Grant-date values are not cash received; miss the TSR hurdles and the PSUs pay nothing. That gap between reported and realized pay is a cousin of the phantom tax problem employees hit when equity is taxed before it can be sold.

Share sales: what the 10b5-1 filings show

Kurtz sells on a schedule. His current plan was adopted January 6, 2026, and the sales are small and frequent rather than large and lumpy. A representative filing: on July 22–23, 2026 he sold 17,465.537 Class A shares across 14 transactions at weighted-average prices from $181.89 to $192.73, roughly $3.26 million, leaving 8,143,544 shares held directly.

Rule 10b5-1 plans are pre-scheduled instructions that let insiders sell without acting on inside information, so automatic selling is not a signal about the company. For a net worth estimate it means the documented stake shrinks slightly every month while the share price does most of the moving. His holdings are also split between direct ownership and a family trust, a structure common among founders planning around what an estate looks like when nearly all of it is one stock.

The July 2024 outage and what it cost him

At 04:09 UTC on July 19, 2024, a faulty CrowdStrike content update for Windows crashed roughly 8.5 million machines worldwide. Airlines, hospitals, banks and broadcasters went down. CrowdStrike shares closed 11% lower that day, opening at $294.51 after a $343.05 close the day before, and roughly $12.5 billion of market value evaporated in the session. Forbes calculated Kurtz’s fortune falling from $3.2 billion on Thursday to about $2.9 billion by Friday afternoon, and noted he owned “more than 3%” of the company at that point.

The stock slid further over the following weeks before recovering, and the litigation outlasted the dip. Delta Air Lines sued in October 2024 for roughly $500 million; in May 2025 a Fulton County Superior Court judge allowed the negligence and computer trespass claims to proceed while dismissing the broader fraud allegations. CrowdStrike argues its contractual liability caps damages far below that, and as of January 2026 no trial date had been set. A separate securities class action led by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli was dismissed by US District Judge Robert Pitman, reported January 15, 2026.

The lesson for anyone reading net worth headlines: the outage cut his estimated fortune by about 9% in one day and did not end his tenure. By August 2026 CrowdStrike’s market cap was more than double its pre-outage level.

Racing, Formula 1 and what else he owns

Kurtz is a licensed FIA Bronze-rated endurance driver, and it is a second career rather than a hobby. He was runner-up in the 2013 Radical SR3 championship, won the 2017 Pirelli World Challenge GTS title in a McLaren GT4, took his first GT3 win in 2020, and won the 12 Hours of Sebring in an LMP3 Ligier in 2021. In 2023, on his first attempt, he won the LMP2 Pro-Am class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. On January 25, 2026 he won LMP2 outright at the Rolex 24 at Daytona with CrowdStrike Racing by Algarve Pro Racing, alongside Toby Sowery, Alex Quinn and Malthe Jakobsen, after two class runner-up finishes in three years, one by 0.016 seconds.

CrowdStrike has sponsored Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS in Formula 1 since 2019. On November 20, 2025 that relationship became ownership: Kurtz acquired a 15% minority interest in the entity Toto Wolff controls, which itself holds one-third of the team, and was appointed Technology Advisor with a seat on the strategic steering committee alongside Mercedes-Benz and INEOS. Terms were not disclosed; Bloomberg reported that month that Wolff was exploring a sale at a roughly $6 billion team valuation. Kurtz says the sponsorship revenue his racing programmes attract exceeds their cost.

His real estate vehicle FalconEye Ventures, founded in 2020, is now one of Arizona’s more active property groups. It acquired the 755,000-square-foot Scottsdale Quarter mixed-use centre, announced June 26, 2025 and reported by The Real Deal at $645 million, with a $100 million improvement programme planned. FalconEye also owns Scottsdale Promenade and is behind The Parque, a roughly $1 billion development on the former CrackerJax site. None of this appears in his SEC filings, which is part of why aggregate estimates run above the share count.

Philanthropy

The main vehicle associated with him is the CrowdStrike Foundation, incorporated in 2017 as a 501(c)(3). It funds NextGen Scholarships for students in cybersecurity and AI, backs university research, and provides free security software to nonprofits, journalists and activists facing sophisticated intrusions. That is a company foundation, not a personal one.

Kurtz’s personal giving is largely undocumented. The most concrete data point is the $1 billion-plus of stock Bloomberg reported him gifting in 2025, but recipients were never disclosed and there is no public confirmation the transfers were charitable rather than family or trust transfers. Anyone quoting a specific personal donation total for him is guessing.

Frequently asked questions

What is George Kurtz’s net worth in 2026?

Forbes estimates $11.9 billion and ranked him #265 in the world on its real-time list in early July 2026. His documented CrowdStrike holdings from SEC Form 4 filings are 8,543,544 shares, worth about $1.63 billion at the July 31, 2026 close of $190.86. Forbes does not publish the breakdown that accounts for the difference.

How much of CrowdStrike does George Kurtz own?

His July 2026 Form 4 reports 8,143,544 shares held directly and 400,000 through the Kurtz Family Dynasty Trust. Against roughly 1.02 billion shares outstanding, that is about 0.84% of the company. His voting power fell from around 31% in 2022 to roughly 2.5% by 2025 after large stock gifts and the sunset of CrowdStrike’s dual-class structure.

Did the 2024 CrowdStrike outage make him lose money?

Yes, on paper. Forbes calculated his fortune dropping from $3.2 billion to about $2.9 billion between July 18 and July 19, 2024, as CrowdStrike shares fell 11% and roughly $12.5 billion of market value disappeared. He did not sell into the drop, and the stock has since more than doubled past its pre-outage level.

How much was George Kurtz paid in 2026?

CrowdStrike’s proxy filed May 5, 2026 reported total fiscal 2026 compensation of about $247.6 million. His base salary is $1.1 million with a target bonus of 135%. The rest is the grant-date value of equity, including 300,000 target performance stock units awarded December 22, 2025 that pay nothing unless CrowdStrike beats the S&P 500’s 25th percentile total return over three years.

Does he still sell CrowdStrike stock?

Regularly, under a Rule 10b5-1 plan adopted January 6, 2026. Sales are small and scheduled: one filing covered 17,465 shares across 14 trades on July 22–23, 2026 for about $3.26 million. Pre-scheduled selling is a diversification mechanism and is generally not read as a view on the company’s prospects.

What does George Kurtz own besides CrowdStrike shares?

A 15% minority interest in Toto Wolff’s Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 ownership entity, acquired November 2025, and a substantial Arizona real estate portfolio through FalconEye Ventures, including Scottsdale Quarter, Scottsdale Promenade and The Parque development. He also sits on the board of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Is George Kurtz richer than other self-made billionaires in sports and retail?

On the Forbes figure, comfortably. Fanatics founder Michael Rubin’s net worth and Shaquille O’Neal’s net worth are both built on diversified private businesses and endorsement income, which makes them steadier but slower-compounding than a concentrated public-company stake. Kurtz’s number is more volatile precisely because it is one stock.

How reliable are billionaire net worth estimates?

Treat them as ranges. Share counts and market prices are exact, so the equity portion is defensible. Everything else, including private property, trusts, debt against shares and unrealized tax, is modelled by the publisher. Forbes and Bloomberg use different methods and routinely publish figures for the same person that differ by billions.