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- The tech tycoons on the 2023 Forbes 400 list of the wealthiest people in the U.S. have gained a combined $300 billion in net worth since fall 2022, largely thanks to a wave of investor enthusiasm for artificial intelligence. In all, 69 members of The Forbes 400 made their fortunes in technology, compared to 65 last year.
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- Jeff Bezos
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Bill Gates
- Sergey Brin
- Larry Ellison
- Steve Ballmer
- Mackenzie Scott
- Michael Dell
- Pierre Omidyar
Source: Amazon
The Amazon founder stepped down as CEO in July, after 27 years at the helm, but stayed on as chairman. Since then, he’s turned his attention to other ventures, including his space company Blue Origin, which launched Bezos into suborbital space in late July. He’s also increased his focus on philanthropy. Major pledges this year include $200 million to the Smithsonian Institution, $200 million to leaders who demonstrate civility and $1 billion from his $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund toward land a...
Source: Facebook
Even in the face of an antitrust lawsuit from the federal government, Facebook joined Microsoft in rarefied air as one of a handful of companies to reach a $1 trillion market cap, first doing so in June. That helped Zuckerberg’s net worth top Bill Gates’ for the first time, having edged past the Microsoft cofounder by a mere half billion dollars. In the meantime, the Facebook CEO is continuing to follow through on the pledge he and wife Priscilla Chan made in 2016 to give away or make impact...
Source: Microsoft
After Bezos’ $35 billion split from MacKenzie Scott in 2019, Gates’ divorce from wife Melinda this year is the second costliest in history. The couple finalized their divorce in August, with the one-time richest man in the world transferring some $5.6 billion in stocks to his wife, who now goes by Melinda French Gates. Questions about the future of their high-profile philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, remain. Amid the divorce proceedings, the pair committed $15 b...
Source: Google
In recent months, the tight-lipped Google cofounders have recommenced selling stock in parent company Alphabet, after not doing so since 2017. In the past four years, their net worths have each more than doubled. And while they relinquished day-to-day duties at the tech giant two years ago, Page and Brin still hold a majority of Alphabet’s voting shares, allowing them to control boardroom decisions. Brin has donated $104 million to Covid-19 relief efforts through his Sergey Brin Family Founda...
Source: software
The Oracle cofounder and chairman may have distanced himself and his company from California—his primary residence is now in Hawaii, while Oracle is based in Austin, Texas—but a large portion of Ellison’s estimated $1 billion real estate portfolio remains in the Golden State. The outspoken software executive has made headlines for his affiliations with controversial figures, including his ties to Donald Trump, his donations to Caitlin Jennerin a failed California gubernatorial bid and his hos...
Source: Microsoft
America’s richest sports team owner has largely kept clear of the tech world since retiring from Microsoft, where he was CEO from 2000 to 2014. But Ballmer returned to his tech roots in awarding the naming rights to the new $1 billion basketball arena for his Los Angeles Clippers. As part of the groundbreaking in September, Ballmer announced that the Inglewood, California arena would be named the Intuit Dome, after the financial software firm reportedlyshelled out $500 million to put its name...
Source: Amazon
Her ex-husband Jeff Bezos has pledged more than $13 billion toward philanthropic causes, but so far has given away less than $2 billion in his lifetime. Scott, whose fortune derives from the 25% of Bezos’ Amazon shares that he transferred to her in their 2019 divorce settlement, has given away far more in far less time. By Forbes’ count, Scott has awarded nearly $8.6 billion in grants to more than 780 charitable groups. Her “no strings attached” philosophymeans that these organizations are ab...
Source: Dell computers
Dell, the personal computer and tech infrastructure firm that Michael Dell named after himself, was a struggling stock when its founder and CEO took it private in a $25 billion leveraged buyout, the largest ever in technology, in 2013. Then, the firm borrowed $50 billion—incurring $70 billion of debt in total—to acquire IT company EMC. Today, the public cynicism has evaporated and Dell is the mastermind behind arguably the biggest buyout coup of all time. “It didn’t feel that risky to me,” De...
Source: eBay, PayPal
Last year, Omidyar stepped down from the board of e-commerce marketplace eBay, which he founded in 1995. Although he’s a chief force behind the successes of $40 billion (market capitalization) eBay and $300 billion (market capitalization) PayPal, which was acquired and later spun out by eBay, Omidyar is now putting his funds toward curbing the power of Big Tech. His Omidyar Network, which makes impact investments and charitable donations, has given to a number of watchdog groups that advocate...
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- Bill Gates. $84.5 B 65 Microsoft. United States.
- Jeff Bezos. $81.7 B 57 Amazon.com. United States.
- Mark Zuckerberg. $69.6 B 37 Facebook. United States.
- Larry Ellison. $59.3 B 76 software. United States.
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