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The 10 richest people in tech
1. THE 10 RICHEST PEOPLE IN
TECH
TOGETHER, THESE TEN BILLIONAIRES HAVE A NET WORTH OF $403
BILLION
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Almost one-fourth of the 50 richest people on earth made their extraor
dinary fortunes founding and building today's largest tech com panies.
That includes Microsoft visionary Bill Gates, the richest person on earth
and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the richest tech CEO in the world .This
comes from new data provided by Wealth-X, a company that conducts
research on the superwealthy. Although the American tech scene is
home to the most billionaires on our list -nine of the top 50 -the
emerging economies in China and India are starting to churn out
enormously rich tech moguls of their own. Check out the richest tech
titans in the world.
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Bill Gates
Net worth: $87.4 billion Age: 60 Source of wealth: Microsoft Bill Gates co-founded
Microsoft with Paul Allen. Months before his 31st birthday, the company went public,
making Gates a billionaire. He still sits on the company's board, with a net worth at $87.4
billion.
Jeff Bezos
Net worth: $56.6 billion Age: 51 Source of wealth: Amazon.com Jeff Bezos earned his
fortune by introducing e-commerce to the world. He founded Amazon.com in the garage of
his Seattle home in 1994. It has since grown to generate $107 billion in sales in 2015.
Larry Ellison
Net worth: $45.3 billion Age: 71 Source of wealth: Oracle In 1977, Larry Ellison teamed up
with two colleagues to start a programming firm for the CIA under the project code Oracle.
It grew into what is known today as Oracle Corp. In 2010, Ellison reduced his annual salary
from $1 million to $1, but he still earns more than $60 million in total compensation thanks
to stock awards.
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Mark Zuckerberg
Net worth: $42.8 billion Age: 31 Source of wealth: Facebook In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg
launched TheFacebook.com, a rudimentary version of the now ubiquitous social network.
Today, it is worth more than $275 billion. At 31, Zuckerberg is the youngest of the 50
richest people in the world.
Larry Page
Net worth: $38.5 billion Age: 42 Source of wealth: Google In 1998, Larry Page teamed up
with Sergey Brin to create BackRub, an early search engine. The project morphed into
Google (now Alphabet) one of the largest companies in the world, worth more than $500
billion.
Sergey Brin
Net worth: $37 billion Age: 42 Source of wealth: Google A long with Larry Page, Sergey Brin
helped facilitate Google's massive restructuring recently, to become a new company,
Alphabet. It's run by Brin as president and Page as CEO. It made $66 billion in sales in 2014,
up more than $10 billion from the year before.
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Jack Ma
Net worth: $26.5 billion Age: 51 Source of wealth: Alibaba The second-richest person in
China, Alibaba founder and executive chairman Jack Ma, started the company with just
$60,000. Fifteen years later, the company broke records with a $25 billion IPO -the world's
largest ever.
Steve Ballmer
Net worth: $26.3 billion Age: 59 Source of wealth: Microsoft Steve Ballmer dropped out of
Stanford in 1980 to join Harvard friend Bill Gates at Microsoft as its first business manager.
Ballmer held positions as vice president of marketing and executive vice president of sales
and support, and was referred to as `the numbers guy'.
Michael Dell
Net worth: $18.9 billion Age: 50 Source of wealth: Dell In 1984, Michael Dell started a
company called PC Ltd, the predecessor to Dell Inc, with a seed fund of $1,000. Soon Dell
found himself at the helm of one of the fastest growing companies in the United States.
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Paul Allen
Net worth: $18.3 billion Age: 62 Industry: Diversified investments
Source of wealth: Microsoft With Bill Gates, Paul Allen credits Microsoft
for his fortune. Although Allen left the company before it went public,
he remained a board member until 2000 and today holds a less than 5
per cent stake. He went on to found Vulcan, his private-investment
vehicle, after leaving Microsoft.
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