How This Spicy San Antonio Billionaire Is Reinventing The Alamo City

Just make sure the tortilla chips keep coming

Rick Martinez
4 min readMay 10, 2021

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Walking around the Pearl Farmers market one day, a friend pointed to the top floor of the magnificent Hotel Emma and said, “that’s where Kit lives.”

Truth is, I don’t know if that’s a fact that “Kit” lives there, but I do know that Christopher “Kit” Goldsbury and his company, Silver Ventures, owns it.

The hotel I mean.

Christopher “Kit” Goldsbury, president and CEO of San Antonio’s Silver Ventures, ranks as the wealthiest San Antonio, Texas resident with a net worth of $1.7 billion, Forbes reported.

In 2021 there were no new San Antonio billionaires, so the list is still at only three. We’ll be talking about the other two in separate articles for sure.

Forbes magazine recently published their list of this year’s 2,755 billionaires worldwide, and even though there were 493 new additions to the list, one really stood out. Our very own Kit.

Kit is the Silver Ventures owner who hit the jackpot when he sold salsa maker Pace Foods to Campbell Soup for about $1.1 billion in 1994. Forbes calculated…

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