Sir Peter's recent knighthood in the Golden Jubilee honours and his controversial time curating the Royal Academy's prestigious summer exhibition thrust him back into the public eye.
Midas List members Peter Thiel and Yuri Milner are two other venture capitalists who can attribute the majority of their wealth to a certain golden touch with Facebook.
Although he draws too much on his earlier writings, Peter Nichols in a fine new book suggests that the rot of sponsorship set in here: a trophy of a golden globe and a cash prize offered by the Sunday Times for, respectively, the first and the fastest circumnavigation.