Top 10 Billionaires Who Used Technology to Make their Fortune in 2014
As per Forbes, there are 1645 billionaires in the world as of now, who have collectively amassed fortune worth $6.4 trillion. Compared to last year, 268 new billionaires joined the list, including 42 new woman billionaires.
From this list, we present before you 10 billionaires who used technology to make their fortune and changed the world forever.
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1. Bill Gates:
With $77.45 billion net worth, Bill Gates is currently ranked
#1 billionaire in the whole world. And everyone knows how Bill earned
those billions of dollars: Technology! He brought in world’s most
popular operating system and created a company which defied all rules of
business.
2. Larry Ellison:
Founder of Oracle has net worth of $49.5 billion, and is ranked #2
tech billionaire in our list. The flamboyant entrepreneur’s biological
parents never met him till he was 48 as he was given away to his uncle
and aunt for adaption.
3. Jeff Bezos:
Amazon’s amazing founder Jeff Bezos has net worth of $30
billion as of now, and he is ranked #3 in this list of technology
billionaires. He created world’s biggest ecommerce portal, and redefined
ecommerce as we all know it.
4. Larry Page:
Larry Page co-founded Google, the biggest Internet Company in
the world. With total net worth of $29.6 billion, Larry Page is ranked
#4 in this exclusive list of tech billionaires. He is the inventor of
the dreaded Page Rank algorithm of Google which ranks websites on its
search result pages.
5. Sergey Brin:
Sergey is the second co-founder of Google Inc., and with
$29.2 billion, he is ranked #5 in the list of tech billionaires. He is a
Russian, whose family immigrated to USA. No wonder USA is often called
the Land of Dreams.
6. Mark Zuckerberg:
Having net worth of $26.2 billion as of now, Mark is ranked
#6 in this list. Founder of Facebook, world’s biggest social network
with 1 billion+ users, Mark is the perfect example of how technology and
a dream can literally change the world.
7. Steve Ballmer:
Having net worth of $20.2 billion, Steve is ranked #7 in this
list of tech billionaires. Steve joined Microsoft in the year 1980 and
was Microsoft’s 30th employee.
8. Michael Dell:
With a net worth of $17.6 billion, Michael Dell, founder of
Dell Computers is ranked #8 in this list. He belongs to Jewish family,
and his family migrated to the USA. Another example of sheer
determination and persistence.
9. Paul Allen:
Along with Bill Gates, Paul Allen was the cofounder of
Microsoft. As of now, Paul is worth $15.9 billion, and is ranked #9 in
this tech billionaires list. He is the third Microsoft guy in the list!
This explains the importance of team work within an enterprise: no one
loses but everyone benefits.
10. Laurene Powell Jobs & Family:
She is the widow of iconic technology innovator Steve Jobs
and is currently worth $14.2 billion. She manages the Laurene Powell
Jobs Trust which also owns 8% of Disney along with 5.5 million shares of
Apple. If Steve Jobs would have been alive, then he would have been
quite high up in this list.
Other tech billionaire who made significant dent in the universe
includes: Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay with net worth of $8.2
billion; Eric Schmidt, executive Chairman of Google with net worth of
$8.7 billion; Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn with net worth of
$3.4 billion.
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