JESSE WAITS
MANAGING PARTNER, XS, TRYST AT THE WYNN HOTELS
When Jesse Waits, now 39, moved to Las Vegas in 1996, he arrived with a few thousand dollars and promptly spent it on a 1965 Ford Thunderbird. Thirteen years later, he opened the $100 million mega-club XS, dedicating one weeknight to house music. “Everyone was skeptical, but it was gigantic,” he recalls. Today, XS is the highest-grossing club in the country and maintains a roster of EDM superstars, including Skrillex, David Guetta and Kaskade, many of whom Waits pals around with offduty. Plus, his prized Thunderbird now belongs to Avicii, a gift for the Swedish DJ’s 21st birthday — a purely sentimental token, considering his rumored rate of $400,000 per gig. Waits won’t discuss figures, but he will confirm the…