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Article: The Orange County Register, Calif., Cathy Taylor Column.(Originated from The Orange County Register, Calif.)
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- May 6, 1996
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May 6--He ought to get it over with and print it on a business card: Jim Jannard, The Only Other Guy This Rich In Orange County Is Donald Bren.
Jannard is a 46-year-old sunglasses entrepreneur who pulled the lever on the stock market machine and came up all cherries. His Irvine-based company, Oakley Inc., saw its shares double in the eight months after first hitting Wall Street. That boom has lifted Jannard to the galaxy of Southern California billionaires.
He is likely the most liquid man in Orange County, with tens of millions of dollars in the bank -- all waiting for a shopping list. It's wealth generated by sunglasses so cool that even the hard-liners on ...