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  3. Apr 5, 2022 · According to Forbes ’ estimates, 332 billionaires made their fortunes in the tech industry, down from 365 last year. It has the third-most billionaires in the world, behind finance and...

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  4. Jul 4, 2024 · As of January 2024, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, Tesla, and X (previously known as Twitter), was the richest person in the global tech industry with an estimated net worth of 217 billion U.S....

    • Jeff Bezos. Worth: $114 billion. Overall rank: #3. Bezos, who founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his garage in Seattle, dropped from the overall number one spot on the Forbes list in 2021 and number two spot in 2022 to third place this year.
    • Larry Ellison. Worth: $107 billion. Overall rank: #4. Ellison is chairman, chief technology officer and co-founder of software giant Oracle, of which he owns about a 35 percent stake.
    • Bill Gates. Worth: $104 billion. Overall rank: #6. The co-founder and long-time CEO of software giant Microsoft, Gates spent 18 years as the richest person in the world before being displaced in 2018.
    • Steve Ballmer. Worth: $80.7 billion. Overall rank: #10. The CEO of tech giant Microsoft from 2000 to 2014, Ballmer joined the company as employee number 30 in 1980.
    • Jeff Bezos. Worth: $171 billion. Overall rank: #2. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos may no longer be the richest man in the world, thanks to Elon Musk taking the top spot.
    • Bill Gates. Worth: $129 billion. Overall rank: #4. Bill Gates, the legendary cofounder of Microsoft, had a personally rocky 2021, announcing that he and his wife, Melinda, were divorcing after 27 years.
    • Larry Page. Worth: $111 billion. Overall ranking: #6. Larry Page is no longer in charge of day-to-day operations at Alphabet, the parent company of Google.
    • Sergey Brin. Worth: $107 billion. Overall ranking: #7. Sergey Brin, who cofounded Google with Larry Page, is also no longer involved in the daily operations of the company – and yet his net value also increased last year by nearly $20 billion to $107 billion.
  5. Apr 6, 2021 · This year Forbes found 365 billionaires with fortunes in technology, up from 241 last year. It’s the industry with the second-largest number of billionaires after finance and investments—with 371...

  6. According to Forbes’ estimates, 332 billionaires made their fortunes in the tech industry, down from 365 last year.

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