Tuesday, March 18, 2008

On Global Tech Ranking

After "The Power of 2", I will continue with presenting 15 of the American's richest personalities in the field of technology by Forbes.com last March 5 (by company, global rank, name, age and worth in US $ billion):

  • Microsoft. 3 - William Gates III, 52, 58.0
  • Microsoft. 41 - Paul Allen, 55, 16.0
  • Microsoft. 43 - Steve Ballmer, 52, 15.0
  • Oracle. 14 - Larry Ellison, 63, 25.0
  • Google. 32 - Sergey Brin, 34, 18.7
  • Google. 33 - Larry Page, 35, 18.6
  • Google. 142 - Eric Schmidt, 52, 6.6
  • Dell. 40 - Michael Dell, 43, 16.4
  • Ebay. 120 - Pierre Omidyar, 40, 7.7
  • Apple. 189 - Steve Jobs, 53, 5.4
  • Intel. 288 - Gordon Moore, 79, 3.7
  • Yahoo. 462 - David Filo, 41, 2.5
  • Yahoo. 524 - Jerry Yang, 39, 2.3
  • Siebel Systems. 652 - Thomas Siebel, 55, 1.9
  • Facebook. 785 - Mark Zuckerberg, 23, 1.5

It's worth to note that the youngest in the Billionaire's Club now is the 23-year old Mark Zuckerberg who founded Facebook.com.

Another interesting fact is that all of them are self-made.

Other things that we can learn from them:

  • 7 are more than 50 years of age
  • 7 have more than US $ 10 billion in worth
  • 7 are in the top 100 richest people
  • 3 companies have 2 or more billionaires

How I wish we will have a Filipino company who will make it in the list...


Excerpt from March 5, 2008, "The World's Billionaires" issue of Forbes.com.



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