Forbes has once again released its list of America’s richest people and, not surprisingly, Bill Gates topped the list with an estimated wealth of about $57 billion. But Gates isn’t alone as the only technology titan on the country’s list of the richest people. On the list again this year is Gates’ old partner Paul Allen, Sergey and Larry from Google, and Steve Jobs. New to the list is Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who sneaked in ahead of EMC’s Richard Egan and VC Vinod Khosla.
The Richest People in Tech
1. Bill Gates (Microsoft), $57 billion
3. Larry Ellison (Oracle), $27 billion
11. Michael Dell (Dell), $17.3 billion
12. Paul Allen (Microsoft), $16 billion
13. Sergey Brin (Google), $15.9 billion
14. Larry Page (Google), $15.8 billion
15. Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), $15 billion
33. Jeff Bezos (Amazon), $8.7 billion
47. Rupert Murdoch (News Corp.), $6.8 billion
54. Pierre Omidyar (eBay), $6.3 billion
59. Eric Schmidt (Google), $5.9 billion
61. Steve Jobs (Apple), $5.7 billion
84. Gordon Moore (Intel), $4.4 billion
84. John Sall (SAS Institute), $4.4 billion
91. David Sun (Kingston Technology), $4 billion
91. John Tu, (Kingston Technology), $4 billion
105. Richard Shulze (Best Buy), $3.5 billion
144. Ray Dolby (Dolby), $2.9 billion
161. Mark Cuban (Broadcast.com), $2.6 billion
246. Irwin Jacobs (Qualcomm), $1.9 billion
246. Omid Kordestani (Google), $1.9 billion
262. Henry Samueli (Broadcom), $1.8 billion
281. David Filo (Yahoo), $1.7 billion
321. Amar Bose (Bose), $1.5 billion
321. Todd Wagner (Broadcast.com), $1.5 billion
321. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), $1.5 billion
355. Richard Egan (EMC), $1.4 billion
355. Vinod Khosla (Sun Microsystems), $1.4 billion
355. Theodore Waitt (Gateway), $1.4 billion
Aww zucks made the list!
::pinches cheeks::
That’s all paper hypothetical…what’s he, and others on the list, worth in real-life…in the now now?
This makes me sad because of the fact that all these people have enough money to save the planet from so many harms, but they won’t do jack shit unless it is for a profit or some ‘feel good’ opportunity. Also, they have to think of their dumb fuck kids, grandchildren, and more down the line who they could provide the ‘best’ life for with all this great money. You guys are despicable. Congrats for all the carrots you have collected throughout the years, but what do you feel proud of more than the idea you came up with? bank on that and give the rest away. no one needs more than $80 million dollars, that should be the law. This is the one instance where people from the 1700’s would be laughing at how dumb we were, besides rap music.
I love how they think they can value the private sector. This list should be sponsored by VH1 because it’s a joke and inaccurate. i like how tinycrunch just did the top 20. easier to read.
What You say is worth nothing cause you know nothing about them, you don’t even know how much Bill G. spends money to make everyones life better, guys from google too. So if you want to just cry “oh oh they have loads of money and the don’t want to give me some”, go and f*** yourself.
this is a post that gives a dropout like me hope or makes me more depress
its a tossup
I’m not surprised…:-)
Where’s Jerry Yang? On previous lists he was always a few hundred million ahead of David Filo. Did Filo sell his stock before it dropped and that’s the reason?
Looks like Yang was accidentally left off. He was also at #281 with 1.7 billion
Apex of innovation. in the future “users” will revolt and demand payments from all websites for there online engagement. combined with a flood of free app/software everywhere and this can make superwealth more difficult to achieve in technology.
shut up. nice words, wrong angle
Zuckerberg made it? Oh I didn’t realize they were counting fake dollars.
so Gates is still holding no 1….looks like others are doing better
321. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), $1.5 billion “I think that’s petty cool”
Good post BTW!
Wonder, where are Google guys next year…
Just curious about Marissa Meyer, how much is she worth?
She spends everything on clothes
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@Joe Bowers – I was going to say the same thing. How is FB valued? Anyone knows?
Great post Don!
I’m CEO bitch
i’d like to see this list in a different flavor completely: liquid assets and liquid holdings (which would remove zuckerberg of course)…but would also add many legends of tech (think sun founders, sgi, early msft employees and so on)
agreed. zuck obviously shouldn’t be on the list
At the end, it’s about the numbers.
Can’t believe Zuck made the list. what a joke.
I can’t imagine what it would be like to be 24 yo, and have the potential to be worth over a billion dollars. My goodness. The things I could do with all that money…
Jake
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go out and buy Monolpoly and see what u can do with that money, you could buy a red hotel and a green house, knobhead
Just curious how Larry Page as .1 billion less than Sergey. The poor guy got screwed!
dickslap, they’re not joined at the hip, they’re allowed to make different investments, get different incomes like speaking engagements whatever. don’t be such a fool
They make $100M with *speaking* engagements?
1.1 billions of poor people in the world…sorry its the truth
Wow, no women in the list, we trust that will change in the near future. We report on female internet heroes at http://www.thenextwomen.com
Womens must work at home
There are indeed a lot of women who are working from home on great web companies, if that is what you mean. Take a look at the startups on our magazine (http://www.thenextwomen.com) What do you do?
Our Female Hero of the Week is Arianna Huffington, blogger, opinionmaker, socialite and speaker at this week’s Web 2.0 Expo in New York.
Ms Huffington can be credited with single-handedly moving the image of the blogger away from the somewhat geeky man blogging from his living room, to the influential opinion maker, be it male or female, with a glamourous edge
pfftt ROFL you gotta be kidding me
Does Arrington now blog from his living room? I thought it was the bedroom…
@jimmy
pffttt, is not a reply. How do you want to describe what she has done and her achievements?
You are Hawt! Can we go out sometime?
When I saw the Foebes list this morning I noticed Zuck on the list and I wondered if that is a statement about our current financial problems. When I dug a little deeper I found the answers were a lot more obvious.
Where did we go wrong?
@Simone – plenty of women on the “inherited” and “married to” lists, don’t worry.
@Riz I am not worrying, just say that it will change in the near future and that’s good, both for men and women. Keep an eye on our magazine, there are some really interesting women, f.e. at Google (Gisel hancock), Facebook (Sherryl Sandberg).
I remember reading a while back am interview by Larry Ellison where he stated that his actual wealth that is liquid and ‘real’ is more like 1-2 billion.
Calacanis didn’t make the list?
Where is THE Loren Feldman on this??
Glad to see Mark Z. on the list – he deserves it!
You also missed out John Doerr and Peter Thiel.
Any idea where tehy got a valuation on Facebook?
Please god don’t let someone say “well MS made a $200m+ investment..”
Michael Arrington – $100bn of hot air!!
Funny that you used a still from those new Microsoft commercials here…
FYI — Microsoft just announced that those commercials are DEAD.
$300 Million…. Wasted…
EPIC FAIL!!!!!
Yeah dipshit, the whole campaigns budget was blown in a few weeks…They still have ~$285M to go in this one.
Take your original ‘fail’ crap back to the drawing board.
here’s a thought – what will be worth more MSFT $200MM in facebook or the $300MM in ad campaigns with seinfeld.
Given that most insiders at facebook are selling at $1.8-2B company valuation think the zuck thing may be a ways off…
but god bless em
Pretty funny that the link to the Forbes article has an abcnews referral in it. You should probably check links a bit more closely Don.
What about the SanDisk guys? I’d assume the attempted acquisition by Samsung would have greatly brought up the value of the privately held company, increasing the net-worth of the CEO, owners, etc.
poor steve jobs?
You guys from Techcrunch can be one of them in future, come on!
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when am I going to make the list ?
John Sall is No. 84, where is Dr. Goodnight?
The list up there combines for a total estimated “wealth” of 239.2 billion dollars… nearly a quarter-trillion bucks spread among 29 guys. That’s 8.25 billion each.
And if you count Jerry Yang’s (he considers himself “American” even though the US Government does not) 1.9 billion, the group surpasses the 240 mark with $241.1 billion dollars.
Damn… they should all buy an NFL team. Then the dick swinging could really begin!
You missed everybody outside the US, right??
Good question for Don: “America” (as in your first sentence) or US of A?
i have 2,3 b$ i dont know why they did not menssion my name
Anyway god forgive them….
Murdoch’s business is “Hate”, not “Tech”
They should have included Jim Goodnight of SAS at #33.
Missing Jerry Yang?
Larry Ellison (Oracle), $27 billion
He is my idle