The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world’s richest people. It contains a list of the top 100 Billionaires in the world and we selected the top ten tech billionaires that fall into the tech category.
1. Bill Gate
Networth: $70.5B
Overview: The richest man on Earth is chairman of Microsoft, the world’s biggest software maker. Gates owns 4.8 percent of the Redmond, Washington-based company, a stake that makes up about a fifth of his total wealth. The rest of his fortune lies in closely held Cascade Investment. He has donated $28 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2. Larry Ellison
Networth: $39.4B
Overview: Ellison is the founder and largest shareholder of Oracle, the world’s biggest database company. In addition to his more than 23 percent stake in Oracle, he owns 46 percent of NetSuite and a controlling interest in educational software maker LeapFrog Enterprises. He has about $4.5 billion in cash and other assets, including the Hawaiian island Lanai
3. Jeff Bezos
Networth: $26.8B
Overview: Since creating his online bookseller in 1994, Amazon’s founder and chief executive has turned the company into the biggest retailer on the Web, with annual sales of more than $61 billion. In 2007, Bezos introduced the Kindle electronic book reader. It’s now Amazon’s top-selling item. The company is also a provider of cloud computer services
4. Larry Page
Networth: $25.2B
Overview: Page is co-founder and chief executive of Google, the world’s largest search engine operator. He started the company in 1998 with fellow Stanford graduate student, Sergey Brin. The partners own about 16 percent of the Mountain View, California-based technology giant. Page has sold more than $3.9 billion of Google stock since its public offering in 2004.
5. Sergey Brin
Networth: $24.8B
Overview: Brin is a director and co-founder of Google, the world’s largest search engine operator. He started the company in 1998 with fellow Stanford graduate student Larry Page. The partners own about 16 percent of the Mountain View, California-based technology giant. In 2011, Brin stepped down as president of technology to direct the company’s special projects.
6. Mark Zuckerberg
Networth: $20.5B
Overview: Zuckerberg is co-founder and chief executive officer of Facebook, the world’s largest social-media site. Started in 2004, the site has about 1.1 billion monthly users and generated more than $5.1 billion in revenue in 2012. The company sold shares in an initial public offering May 17, 2012 — the biggest technology IPO in history.
7. Steve Ballmer
NetNetworth: $15.9B
Overview: Announced resignation as Microsoft CEO in August 2013.
Joined Microsoft as employee No. 30 in 1980
8. Paul Allen
NetNetworth: $15B
Overview: Allen co-founded Microsoft with Bill Gates in 1975. Since leaving the company in 1983, he has whittled his 28 percent stake to less than 2 percent, collecting more than $20 billion along the way. The proceeds have been reinvested through his investment company, Vulcan, which has holdings in energy, entertainment, cable, real estate and technology.
9. Michael Dell
NetNetworth: $14.9B
Overview: Michael Dell is the founder and chief executive of Dell, the world’s third-largest computer hardware manufacturer by revenue. He currently owns about 15 percent of the Round Rock, Texas-based company. Through his New York-based investment firm, MSD Capital, Dell also controls an investment portfolio NetNetworth more than $10 billion.
10. Azim Premji
NetNetworth: $11.9B
Overview: Premji is the chairman and largest shareholder of Bangalore-based Wipro, India’s third-biggest software exporter. He controls 56 percent of the company, after transferring more than $4 billion NetNetworth of shares to his foundation. He also owns a private equity fund, PremjiInvest, which manages about $1 billion of his money, and an interest in JM Financial.
Source: Bloomberg
