After a brief lapse during the recession, tech titans again dominate Forbes; annual list of the richest Americans.Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is back at number one, edging ahead of Goldman Sachs fan Warren Buffett.Notably, Facebook founder Mark Zucker
After a brief lapse during the recession, tech titans again dominate Forbes; annual list of the richest Americans.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is back at number one, edging ahead of Goldman Sachs fan Warren Buffett.
Notably, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg moved ahead of old-media tycoon Rupert Murdoch (number 38 on $6.2 billion).
Here's the list distilled to tech contenders only. See the full version on Forbes' website here (if any tech all-stars could help out Forbes with its super-slow site, that would be good as well).
All fortunes listed in $USD:
Rank. Name: Net Worth (Age) Source
1. Bill Gates: $54B (54) Microsoft
3. Larry Ellison: $27B (66) Oracle
10. Michael Bloomberg: $18B (68) Bloomberg terminals (plus publishing stuff)
11. Larry Page: $15B ((37) Google
11. Sergey Brin: $15B ((37) Google
15. Michael Dell: $14B (45), Dell
16. Steve Ballmer: $13.1B (54), Microsoft
17. Paul Allen: $12.7B (57), Microsoft
18. Jeff Bezos: $12.6B (46), Amazon
35. Mark Zuckerberg: $6.9B (26), Facebook
35. James Goodnight: $6.9B (67), SAS
42 Steve Jobs: $6.1B (55), Apple, Pixar
47. Pierre Omidyar: $5.5B (43), Ebay
48. Eric Schmidt: $5.45B (55) Google
85. Ray Dolby: $3.6B (77) Dolby
88. Gordon Moore: $3.5B (88) Intel
90=. John Sall: $3.4B (62) SAS
90=. Ross Perot: $3.4B (80) Perot Systems/EDS
