--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: Eli Broad by Michael Bloomberg: TIME 100 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt48c9ab01e64fe2e9/69888f853c163970b545ce54/time-100-2016-eli-broad.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Apr 20, 2016 # Eli Broad by Michael Bloomberg  Spencer Lowell for TIME Eli Broad is one of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs—not only in business but in philanthropy too. The two _Fortune_ 500 companies he built (KB Home and SunAmerica Inc.) have helped millions of people achieve their aspirations of owning their own homes and retiring with security. As a philanthropist, he seeks out the most promising ideas on a wide variety of issues—and we happen to share a passion for education reform, medical research, gun safety and the arts. Eli has helped spur an artistic renaissance in Los Angeles, and the Broad Prize for Urban Education (an honor New York City received when I was mayor) has helped drive progress in schools across the country. His support for medical research and commonsense gun laws is helping save lives. It’s hard to say whether Eli has done more good for the world through his work in business or philanthropy—and that’s saying an awful lot about both. _Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies, is the former mayor of New York City_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2016-time-100/4301267/eli-broad-2016-time-100/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/2016-time-100/4301267/eli-broad-2016-time-100/"},"headline":"Eli Broad","datePublished":"2016-04-20T16:34:09.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:13:28.374Z","description":"Renaissance man","url":"https://time.com/collections/2016-time-100/4301267/eli-broad-2016-time-100/","keywords":[],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt48c9ab01e64fe2e9/69888f853c163970b545ce54/time-100-2016-eli-broad.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt48c9ab01e64fe2e9/69888f853c163970b545ce54/time-100-2016-eli-broad.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/2016-time-100/4301267/eli-broad-2016-time-100/","name":"Eli Broad"}}]}] ```