September 19, 2008
FORBES 400

Richest People in Tech Business on 2008

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Forbes has released the 27th edition of The Forbes 400 — list of America’s richest people. With a net worth of $57 billion, Bill Gates remains the richest man in America despite losing his crown to Warren Buffett for a few months this spring.
On the list again this year of Technology Titan are Larry Ellison (Oracle), Michael Dell (Dell), Paul Allen (Microsoft), Sergey Brin (Google), Larry Page (Google), Steve Ballmer (Microsoft).

Also new: Mark Zuckerberg, the 24-year-old founder of social networking site Facebook, who debuts on The Forbes 400 with an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion.

Here is the complete list of The Forbes 400 — America’s list of the richest people in Tech Business.

Technology Titan

#NameCompanyNet WorthPosition
1Bill GatesMicrosoft$57 billion#1
2Larry EllisonOracle$27 billion#3
3Michael DellDell$17.3 billion#11
4Paul AllenMicrosoft$16 billion#12
5Sergey BrinGoogle$15.9 billion#13
6Larry PageGoogle$15.8 billion#14
7Steve BallmerMicrosoft$15 billion#15
8Jeff BezosAmazon$8.7 billion#33
9Rupert MurdochNews Corp.$6.8 billion#47
10Pierre OmidyareBay$6.3 billion#54
11Eric SchmidtGoogle$5.9 billion#59
12Steve JobsApple$5.7 billion#61
13Gordon MooreIntel$4.4 billion#84
14John SallSAS Institute$4.4 billion#84
15David SunKingston Technology$4 billion#91
16John TuKingston Technology$4 billion#91
17Richard ShulzeBest Buy$3.5 billion#105
18Ray DolbyDolby$2.9 billion#144
19Mark CubanBroadcast.com$2.6 billion#161
20Irwin JacobsQualcomm$1.9 billion#246
21Omid KordestaniGoogle$1.9 billion#246
22Henry SamueliBroadcom$1.8 billion#262
23David FiloYahoo$1.7 billion#281
24Amar BoseBose$1.5 billion#321
25Todd WagnerBroadcast.com$1.5 billion#321
26Mark ZuckerbergFacebook$1.5 billion#321
27Richard EganEMC$1.4 billion#355
28Vinod KhoslaSun Microsystems$1.4 billion#355
29Theodore WaittGateway$1.4 billion#355


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29/400??
hmm...not too many americans on the 400 list(there are 29 but there used to be more)...
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