Jay Paul

Jay Paul was born 1947/1948 and is a native of Rhode Island.[3][4] He has a bachelor's degree from Boston University.[1] In the 1970s Paul moved to Southern California to help save his father's troubled investments, a savings-and-loan business.[3][4] As a result of saving the investments, he formed and founded Jay Paul Company in 1975.[3]

Jay Paul Company, a privately held real estate development company based in San Francisco, and focused on California.[5] In the early years of Jay Paul Co. he invested in purchasing inexpensive office spaces.[3] Since then, he primarily leases 11 million square feet of office spaces to tech firms, spanning Hewlett-Packard, Amazon, and Apple. There are plans to add 6 million more, primarily in Sunnyvale, California.[6]

On June 16, 2020, San Jose council has approved Jay Paul's redevelopment project of a 3.79-million-square-foot office space in downtown San Jose.[7]

As of July 2020, Paul's net worth is estimated at $3.5 billion,[6] ranking him 1001 on Forbes Billionaires List of 2020.[8]

Paul is married,[6] has no children, lives in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San Francisco, California, and owns two yachts.[1][4] In 2012, he bought his Pacific Heights home for about $28 million, which underwent a large remodel for many years.[3][9]

Paul is known as a very private person and does not give many interviews.[3]