Richest Men From IT Business In The World
Bill Gates has successfully being the richest man in the United States according to Forbes magazine from his software company, Microsoft. Beside Gates, who else are the richest men in US who have dig their gold mine from IT business?
As quoted from TechCrunch, Larry Ellison from Oracle is the next richest man from IT business after Bill Gates. He is on third position in Forbes list. He then followed by Michael Dell, the creator of Dell computer, in 11th position. Dell then followed by Paul Allen, the creator of Microsoft in 12th position. Another popular IT person who also listed is Steve Jobs in 61st position. The most interesting thing in the list is that Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook creator, is on the list in 321st position.
Here is the complete list of richest people from IT world according to Forbes:
1. Bill Gates (Microsoft), USD 57 billion
3. Larry Ellison (Oracle), USD 27 billion
11. Michael Dell (Dell), USD 17.3 billion
12. Paul Allen (Microsoft), USD 16 billion
13. Sergey Brin (Google), USD 15.9 billion
14. Larry Page (Google), USD 15.8 billion
15. Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), USD 15 billion
33. Jeff Bezos (Amazon), USD 8.7 billion
47. Rupert Murdoch (News Corp.), USD 6.8 billion
54. Pierre Omidyar (eBay), USD 6.3 billion
59. Eric Schmidt (Google), USD 5.9 billion
61. Steve Jobs (Apple), USD 5.7 billion
84. Gordon Moore (Intel), USD 4.4 billion
84. John Sall (SAS Institute), USD 4.4 billion
91. David Sun (Kingston Technology), USD 4 billion
91. John Tu, (Kingston Technology), USD 4 billion
105. Richard Shulze (Best Buy), USD 3.5 billion
144. Ray Dolby (Dolby), USD 2.9 billion
161. Mark Cuban (Broadcast.com), USD 2.6 billion
246. Irwin Jacobs (Qualcomm), USD 1.9 billion
246. Omid Kordestani (Google), USD 1.9 billion
262. Henry Samueli (Broadcom), USD 1.8 billion
281. David Filo (Yahoo), USD 1.7 billion
321. Amar Bose (Bose), USD 1.5 billion
321. Todd Wagner (Broadcast.com), USD 1.5 billion
321. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), USD 1.5 billion
355. Richard Egan (EMC), USD 1.4 billion
355. Vinod Khosla (Sun Microsystems), USD 1.4 billion
355. Theodore Waitt (Gateway), USD 1.4 billion
October 10th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I did see today that with the market crashing the way it has recently, Bill has lost quite a bit of money and Warren Buffett is now the top dog! Impressive nonetheless.