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Who Are the Richest People In Tech?

by Don Reisinger on September 18, 2008 85 Comments

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. Recent Active

The Richest People in Tech

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1. Bill Gates (Microsoft), $57 billion User Generated Content
12 hours, 54 minutes ago
3. Larry Ellison (Oracle), $27 billion
11. Michael Dell (Dell), $17.3 billion Why the Google-Yahoo Ad Deal Is
Something to Fear
12. Paul Allen (Microsoft), $16 billion 19 hours, 35 minutes ago
13. Sergey Brin (Google), $15.9 billion
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14. Larry Page (Google), $15.8 billion Waiting To Happen?
15. Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), $15 billion 1 day, 4 hours ago
33. Jeff Bezos (Amazon), $8.7 billion PlanetEye Applies Pack Rat Mentality to
47. Rupert Murdoch (News Corp.), $6.8 billion Travel Planning
54. Pierre Omidyar (eBay), $6.3 billion 1 day, 7 hours ago

59. Eric Schmidt (Google), $5.9 billion Japanese Girl Sensation: Virtual Boyfriends
61. Steve Jobs (Apple), $5.7 billion (Webkare)
1 day, 14 hours ago
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
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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

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sean percival - September 18th, 2008 at 12:53 pm PDT

Aww zucks made the list!

::pinches cheeks::

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Lawrence - September 18th, 2008 at 5:59 pm PDT

That’s all paper hypothetical…what’s he, and others on the list, worth in real-life…in the
now now?

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iMeanComeOn - September 18th, 2008 at 8:49 pm PDT

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.

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b. ramirez - September 18th, 2008 at 8:57 pm PDT

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.

dzoe - September 19th, 2008 at 4:06 am PDT

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.

silicon valley dropout - September 18th, 2008 at 12:59 pm PDT

this is a post that gives a dropout like me hope or makes me more depress

its a tossup

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Shawn - September 18th, 2008 at 1:02 pm PDT

I’m not surprised…:-)

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RickM - September 18th, 2008 at 1:04 pm PDT

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?

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SK - September 18th, 2008 at 1:09 pm PDT

Looks like Yang was accidentally left off. He was also at #281 with 1.7 billion

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CommentLocator.com - September 18th, 2008 at 1:10 pm PDT

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.

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lolhead - September 18th, 2008 at 2:06 pm PDT

shut up. nice words, wrong angle

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Joe Bowers - September 18th, 2008 at 1:13 pm PDT

Zuckerberg made it? Oh I didn’t realize they were counting fake dollars.

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ProBloggerForum.net - September 18th, 2008 at 1:17 pm PDT

so Gates is still holding no 1….looks like others are doing better

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Ka - September 18th, 2008 at 1:18 pm PDT

321. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook), $1.5 billion “I think that’s petty cool”

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Ka - September 18th, 2008 at 1:19 pm PDT

Good post BTW!

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Dan - September 18th, 2008 at 1:21 pm PDT

Wonder, where are Google guys next year…

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lorenzo - September 18th, 2008 at 1:21 pm PDT

Just curious about Marissa Meyer, how much is she worth?

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Bruno Pittini - September 19th, 2008 at 8:19 am PDT

She spends everything on clothes

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Andrew of Mixergy - September 18th, 2008 at 1:23 pm PDT

I love the forbes 400 list. Very inspiring!

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Dealyzer - September 18th, 2008 at 1:23 pm PDT

@Joe Bowers - I was going to say the same thing. How is FB valued? Anyone knows?

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Walt Ribeiro - September 18th, 2008 at 1:24 pm PDT

Great post Don!

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Mark Zuckerberg - September 18th, 2008 at 1:43 pm PDT

I’m CEO bitch

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dave - September 18th, 2008 at 1:43 pm PDT

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)

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john - September 18th, 2008 at 1:57 pm PDT

agreed. zuck obviously shouldn’t be on the list

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Lawk Salih - September 18th, 2008 at 1:47 pm PDT

At the end, it’s about the numbers.

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john - September 18th, 2008 at 1:57 pm PDT

Can’t believe Zuck made the list. what a joke.

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Jake - September 18th, 2008 at 2:04 pm PDT

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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lolhead - September 18th, 2008 at 2:09 pm PDT

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

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Jon F - September 18th, 2008 at 2:08 pm PDT

Just curious how Larry Page as .1 billion less than Sergey. The poor guy got screwed!

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lolhead - September 18th, 2008 at 2:11 pm PDT

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

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Bruno Pittini - September 19th, 2008 at 8:23 am PDT

They make $100M with *speaking* engagements?

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Golden Arch Casino - September 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pm PDT

1.1 billions of poor people in the world…sorry its the truth

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simone brummelhuis - September 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pm PDT

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

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ivis - September 18th, 2008 at 2:27 pm PDT

Womens must work at home

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jimmy - September 18th, 2008 at 3:48 pm PDT

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

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Bruno Pittini - September 19th, 2008 at 8:24 am PDT

Does Arrington now blog from his living room? I thought it was the bedroom…

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Sam - September 18th, 2008 at 5:54 pm PDT

You are Hawt! Can we go out sometime?

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botchagalupe - September 18th, 2008 at 2:21 pm PDT

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?

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Riz - September 18th, 2008 at 2:27 pm PDT

@Simone - plenty of women on the “inherited” and “married to” lists, don’t worry.

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Neyma Jahansooz - September 18th, 2008 at 2:47 pm PDT

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.

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bleeko - September 18th, 2008 at 2:50 pm PDT

Calacanis didn’t make the list?

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Jason - September 18th, 2008 at 3:09 pm PDT

Where is THE Loren Feldman on this??

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Nick Stamoulis - September 18th, 2008 at 3:13 pm PDT

Glad to see Mark Z. on the list - he deserves it!

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ValleyGrunt - September 18th, 2008 at 3:25 pm PDT

You also missed out John Doerr and Peter Thiel.

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Wil Schroter - September 18th, 2008 at 3:26 pm PDT

Any idea where tehy got a valuation on Facebook?

Please god don’t let someone say “well MS made a $200m+ investment..”

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George of the Jungle - September 18th, 2008 at 3:28 pm PDT

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Danno - September 18th, 2008 at 4:02 pm PDT

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!!!!!

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LOL - September 18th, 2008 at 5:58 pm PDT

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.

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imjustjealous - September 18th, 2008 at 4:13 pm PDT

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

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eagano - September 18th, 2008 at 4:56 pm PDT

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.

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Mike - September 18th, 2008 at 4:57 pm PDT

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.

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ajadoniz - September 18th, 2008 at 7:02 pm PDT

poor steve jobs?

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Frank Richard - September 18th, 2008 at 8:15 pm PDT

You guys from Techcrunch can be one of them in future, come on!

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Serviced Apartments bangalore - September 18th, 2008 at 11:18 pm PDT

when am I going to make the list ?

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Where is Jim Goodnight - September 18th, 2008 at 11:35 pm PDT

John Sall is No. 84, where is Dr. Goodnight?

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Lazysupper - September 19th, 2008 at 2:23 am PDT

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!

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0xff - September 19th, 2008 at 7:13 am PDT

You missed everybody outside the US, right??

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Ameri Ka - September 19th, 2008 at 8:34 am PDT

Good question for Don: “America” (as in your first sentence) or US of A?

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Abbass - September 19th, 2008 at 9:56 am PDT

i have 2,3 b$ i dont know why they did not menssion my name
Anyway god forgive them….

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uncle baggy - September 19th, 2008 at 10:01 am PDT

Murdoch’s business is “Hate”, not “Tech”

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