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Asia’s Influence Strong in Forbes Top 15 Tech Billionaires
Larry Page & Sergey Brin | Art by Graziano Origa
As people have gradually built more of their life on Internet platforms, the accumulation of wealth has shifted from manufacturing magnates and media barons to tech entrepreneurs – all under the age of 50. The top 15 Internet and computing related billionaires according to the latest Forbes ranking.
1. Larry Page
$17.5 billion (37 yrs old) Page is the co-founder of Google and an American computer engineer.
2. Sergey Brin
$17.5 billion (36 yrs old) Brin is also the co-founded Google, the largest internet company in the world. Page and Brin are referred to as the “Google Guys”
3.Michael Dell
$13.5 billion (45 yrs old) founder and CEO of Dell, Inc
4. Jeffrey Bezos
$12.3bn (46 yrs old) Bezos used to be a financial analyst before he founded Amazon.com in 1994.
5. Pierre Omidyar
$5.2 billion (42 yrs old) Omidyar founded eBay in 1995 when he was 28 years old, which has become the most popular shopping site on the Internet.
6. Mark Zuckerberg
$4 billion (25 yrs old) Zuckerberg is the founder of Facebook, the most popular social networking site that started in 2004. At age 25, he is the youngest Internet billionaire in the world.
7. Robin Li
$3.5 billion (41 yrs old) Li is the co-founder of China’s most popular search site, Baidu. He is twice as rich he was in 2008, and Baidu’s stock is raising 281% in the last 12 months.
8. Jeffrey Skoll
$2.4 billion (45 yrs old) Skoll was the full time employee and first president of eBay. He is no longer involved with the company; he now focuses on producing films related to social and environmental actions.
9. James Balsillie
$2.3 billion (49 yrs old) Balsillie is cofounder of BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, which is perceived as business-user oriented.
10. Shi Yuzhu
$1.6 billion (46 yrs old) Yuzhu founded Giant Interaction in 2005 and it has become very successful. It is one of the most popular online game companies in China.
11. Yoshikazu Tanaka
$1.4 billion (33 yrs old) Tanaka is the world second youngest self-made billionaire after Mark Zuckerberg. He left Rakuten in 1994 (the most popular online shopping site in Japan), and he started his fortune on social networking site called Gree.
12. Jerry Yang
$1.3 billion (41 yrs old) co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo!. He is currently on the Board of Directors of Alibaba and is also on the Stanford University Board of Trustees.
13. Marc Benioff
$1.3 billion (45 yrs old) Benioff was born and raised in San Francisco. Benioff started Salesforce.com in 1999 in San Francisco, and Salesforce.com has raised 140% over the past year.
14. Peter Thiel
$1.2 billion (42 yrs old) Thiel co-founded and was the CEO of PayPal. He was an investor in Facebook, and he is currently on Facebook’s board of directors.
15. Jack Ma
$1.2 billion (45 yrs old) is the founder, chairman and CEO of Alibaba Group. Yahoo has become one of the investor when Alibaba went public in 2007.
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