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Craig and Wendy McCoy.
The amount of compensation: $ 460 million. Craig McCoy is called a cellular pioneer. He made a bet on the cellular business in the early 1980s, when analysts unanimously maintained that mobile communications would not become mass. But McCoy did not listen to them and created the company McCaw Cellular.
Ten years later, in 1994, this company was acquired by AT & T for $ 11.5 billion. Wendy McCoy also rejoiced at the financial success of her husband, as she soon received almost half of his fortune.