The 101 Richest Internet Entrepreneurs
And...(How They Did It)
I’m VERY excited to announce the release of the all-new EntrepreneursGateway.com 101 Internet Entrepreneurs Rich List 2019?
We analyzed the richest on line millionaires to answer the question:
Who and why they are making it, right now?
Find someone in your niche and find out what is working in 2019 and what isn’t.
Maybe you’ll be featured here next year.
Let’s dive right in.
1. Jeffrey Preston Bezos
Business: Amazon
Net Worth: $141.3 billion USD
Started: 1994
Jeff Bezos mini biography
Jeff was born January 12, 1964, aged 54. Jeff is a retail entrepreneur, philanthropist, investor as well as being known for his technology. He is American. The king of online retail and is most famous as being the founder and chairman of Amazon, the world’s largest on-line retailer. He named “Amazon” after the Amazon River, because it began with the letter “A”.
Bezos founded Amazon in his garage in 1994, after writing up its business plan on a trip from New York to Seattle and is now worlds richest person with w net worth over $141.3 billion.
Jeff other business interest include aerospace company Blue Origin, The Washington Post he purchased for US $250 million in 2013 for cash and a number of other business interest via his venture capital fund, Bezos Expeditions.
2. Mark Elliott Zuckerberg
Business: Facebook
Net Worth: $74.7 billion
Started: 2004
Mark Zuckerberg mini biography
College dropout, Mark Zuckerberg was born May 14, 1984 age 34 needs no introduction, love him or hate him he still holds the social media crown. The American technology entrepreneur is the founder and Chairman of Facebook with an estimated worth of US $74.7 billion, and, according to Forbes, is rated as being number 5 on their rich list.
Just six days after the launch of Facebook, three Harvard seniors, accused Mark Zuckerberg of deliberately misleading them that he was building them a social network called HarvardConnection.com, where the original idea came from. Zuckerberg ended settling was for 1.2 million Facebook shares.
The Zuckerberg’s are philanthropists and pledged to give away 99% of their wealth estimated over $60 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have had their fair share of lawsuits and scandals one of the biggest Fake News and Cambridge Analytica Scandal leading up to the 2016 U.S election. Makes you wonder if the CIA have had a helping hand, looming in the background – What are your thoughts?
3. Lawrence "Larry" Joseph Ellison
Business: Oracle
Net Worth: $ 56.9 billion
Started: 1977
Larry Ellison mini Biography
Larry Ellison was born August 17, 1944 is a US-based businessman and co-founder and Chairman of Oracle. Another college drop out who has changed the world, co founding Oracle l in 1977, the database vendor.
Ellison is ranked by Forbes as the sixth richest person in the world and as the third-richest American with a fortune worth $56.9 billion
Larry has signed The Giving Pledge and donated 1% of all of his total wealth to good causes.
Ellison has also been successful in the world of yachting. He is also an aircraft pilot and owns a couple of military jets.
4. Lawrence Edward Page
Business: Google
Net Worth: $ 53.3 billion
Started: 1998
Larry Page mini Biography
Larry Page was born March 26, 1973 needs no introduction. American was born computer scientist, entrepreneur in the internet world and is the co-founder, alongside Sergey Brin of Google. He invented PageRank, Googles search ranking algorithm and is the CEO of Google’s holding company which is Alphabet Inc.
Page, helped by family and friends scraped money enough to buy some servers and rented the famous garage in Menlo Park, which is where they started out.
The original domain name was “Googol,” derived from the number one with a hundred zeros after it
Page is ranked by Forbes as the ninth-weathiest person in the world, worth $53.3 billion.
5. Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin
Business: Google
Net Worth: $ 51.8 billion
Started: 1998
Sergey Brin mini Biography
Sergey Brin was born August 21, 1973 again needs no introduction. Russian computer scientist, living in America, who co-founded Google alongside Larry Page. Brin is the President of Alphabet Incorporated, the parent company of Google. He is ranked the 13th-richest person in the world. He’s worth a staggering $51.8 billion
Brin’s philosophy – “knowledge is good, and better than ignorance”, which is summed up in Google’s mission statement.
Brin met Larry at Stanford University and disagreed on most subjects. Even today, they remain close friends and soul mates.
6. Ma Yun (AKA Jack Ma)
Business: Alibaba
Net Worth: $ 42.7 billion
Started: 1999
Jack Ma mini Biography
Ma Yun was born October 15, 1964. Chinese business entrepreneur who slso goes by the name of Jack Ma. Founder and Chairman of famous ecommerce company Alibaba.
After college, Ma got rejected by 30 different jobs and was told ‘you’re not good enough’ by most of the people who interviewed him. One of the jobs he applied for was KFC. Twenty-four people applied and twenty-three were accepted. Ma was the only person that was rejected.
He applied for Harvard Business School (HBS) 10 times a and was rejected every time.
Jack Ma is Asia’s 3rd richest person and the 20thth richest person on the planet according to Forbes.
Ma famously used to ride his bicycle 70 miles to give tourists tours in order to of practice his English for nine years.
Ma struggled initially to go to a college as he couldn’t pass the entrance exam; however, he finally passed it after four years.
7. Ma Huateng (AKA Pony Ma)
Business: Tencent
Net Worth: $ 45.6 billion
Started: 1998
Ma Huateng mini biography
Ma Huateng was born on October 29, 1971. A Chinese IT entrepreneur, Pony Ma is the president , CEO, board member and founder of Tencent. Tencent Inc., which is said to be the biggest gaming and entertainment conglomerate in the world. It is also Asia’s highest valued company.
Huateng is Asia’s richest man, and the 14th wealthiest person in the world; worth $45.6 billion.
Ma’s first job was in charge of the developing software for Pagers, earning just $176 per month.
Ma Huateng’s philosophy is: “Ideas are not important – execution is" - I think we can all learn a lot by that!!
8. Masayoshi Son
Business: SoftBank
Net Worth: $ 21.3 billion
Started: 1981
Masayoshi Son mini Biography
Masayoshi Son was born August 11, 1957 and is a Japanese entrepreneur, founder and Chairman of SoftBank.
Son is the most wealthiest men in Japan and is worth US $21.3 billion, despite being well known for losing the largest amount of money ever known, in the dot-com crash back in 2000. He lost approximately $70 billion.
In 2011, following the nuclear catastrophe at Fukushima Daiichi, Masayoshi Son slammed the nuclear industry, who created “the issues that trouble Japanese people today”. As a result, he invested heavily in a national solar energy network for the whole of Japan.
9. Azim Hashim Premji
Business: Wipro
Net Worth: $ 17.3 billion
Started: 1945
Azim Premji mini biography
Azim Premji was born 24 July 1945, is known as the Czar of the Indian information technology industry. He is the chairman founder and of Wipro Limited. He is known as being in the top 20 most powerful men in the world. Wipro is a global leader in its industry of software.
Premji is the second richest person in Asia and is worth $17.3 billion.
Azim signed up to The Giving Pledge, pledging to give away half of his fortune, starting with a $2.2 billion donation to his foundation, “Azim Premji”, which focus on education in India.
10. Ding Lei (AKA William Ding)
Business: NetEase
Net Worth: $ 18.3 billion
Started: 1997
Ding Lei mini biography
Ding Lei was born on 1 October 1971.William Ding, as he is known by is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of the company 163.com (known as NetEase). He was one of the major influencers in China for computer networks. He currently invests in real estate.
Ding is worth $18.3 billion, and ranked #52 on Forbes‘s billionaires list.
In 2012, Ding branched NetEase’s activities out into pork production. In May 2017, venture capital firm Sinovation Ventures, US-based Meituan-Dianping, and Alibaba competitor JD, invested a total of US$23 million into the farm.
11. Robin Li
Business: Baidu
Net Worth: $ 15.2 billion
Started: 2000
Robin Li mini biography
Robin Li, sometimes known as Li Yanhong, was born 17 November 1968. A Chinese Web entrepreneur, and was educated at The Peking University where he learnt Information Management. He later went on to earn a Bachelors of Science Degree.
Li is worth $15.2 billion, and ranked #17 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
On top of that, Li is a member of the 12th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
12. Stephen Cohen
Business: Point72 Asset Management
Net Worth: $ 14 billion
Started: 1992
Stephen Cohen mini biography
Stephen Cohen was born 11 June 1956. An American hedge fund manager, investor and philanthropist..
After he went to Wharton, Cohen got a job in Wall Street. He was a junior trader and eventually managed a portfolio worth $75 million.
Stephen Cohen is also an avid art enthusiast, and has an art collection with pieces from Picasso and Andy Warhol which is estimated to be worth over $1 billion.
He founded Point72 Asset Management as well as S.A.C Capital Advisors and has a net worth of $14 billion.
13. Shiv Nadar
Business: HCL
Net Worth: $ 13.7 billion
Started: 1976
Shiv Nadar mini biography
Shiv Nadar was born 14 July 1945 and is an industrialist from India.
He is also a benefactor and founder and chairman of HCL.
He also focuses his efforts on the Shiv Nadar Foundation, an educational system in India.
Nadar gained a pre-university degree in the American College, Madurai with a degree in Electrical and Electrical Engineering from PSG College of Technology Coimbatore.
In 2008, the government of India awarded Nadar with a Padma Bhushan, which is the third highest civilian award, for his contribution to the IT industry.
Nadar is worth $13.5 billion, and ranked #18 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
14. Dustin Moskovitz
Business: Facebook
Net Worth: $ 15.5 billion
Started: 2004
Dustin Moskovitz mini biography
Dustin Moskovitz was born 22 May 1984. His father was a psychiatrist and practiced in Florida, and his mother was a teacher and artist.
He is an American Web business owner who was reported in March 2011 by Forbes to be the youngest self-made billionaire in history, on the basis of his 2.34% share in Facebook.
He co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum and Chris Hughes.
In 2008, he left Facebook to set up Asana with Justin Rosenstein.
Dustin has invested in several companies including Quora, Asana, Vicarious, Path, Flipboard, NationBuilder, Organizer, and several others.
Moskovitz is worth $15.5 billion, and ranked #19 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
15. Hasso Plattner
Business: SAP SE
Net Worth: $ 14.2 billion
Started: 1972
Hasso Plattner mini biography
Hasso Plattner was born 21 January 1944. A German entrepreneur. Co-founding SAP SE, a software company. Since May 2003, he took on the role of chairman of the supervisory board.
Plattner is worth $14.2 billion, and is ranked #20 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
He has also received numerous honours for his dedication to economics as well as scientific research. In addition, he received a Leadership Award for Worldwide Integration to the “technological guru” which gave him a place in their Hall of Fame, that honours people that promote Germany’s social and economic development.
16. Zhang Zhidong
Business: Tencent
Net Worth: $ 15.6 billion
Started: 1998
Zhang Zhidong mini biography
Zhang Zhidong, age 45 also known by the name of Tony Zhang. He is a Chinese entrepreneur, co-founder of Tencent, the famous Chinese Internet company. He is the former CTO of Tencent, as well as being the second-largest shareholder.
He went to Shenzhen College with fellow billionaire Ma Huateng of Alibaba.
Zhidong is worth $15.6 billion, and ranked #21 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
17. Liu Qiangdong
Business: 43JD. Com
Net Worth: $ 11 billion
Started: 1998
Liu Qiangdong mini biography
Liu Qiangdong was born 14 February 1974. He is also known as Richard Liu. He is an internet entrepreneur from China.
He is the creator of JD.com (otherwise known as Jingdong Mall). Hi is one of the most respected leaders in e-commerce in China.
Qiangdong is worth $11 billion, and ranked #25 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
Liu’s wife Zhang Zetian, also known as sister milk tea, has helped to build up the fashion and luxury portfolios of JD.com which is Alibaba’s biggest rival in China.
She has become china’s youngest female billionaire at the age of 24; according to Chinese business magazine New Fortune, making the magazine’s yearly ranking of the top 500 richest people in China.
18. Jan Koum
Business: WhatsApp
Net Worth: $ 9.3 billion
Started: 2009
Jan Koum mini biography
Jan Koum was born 24 February 1976, is an American computer programmer and internet inventor.
Both Koum and Acton first applied for jobs Facebook but failed. Following on from that he purchased an iPhone and soon recognized that the then, seven-month-old App Store was about to generate an entire new industry of applications.
He is the CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp (with Brian Acton), a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook Inc. in February 2014 for US$ 19.3 billion.
He decided upon the name WhatsApp, as it sounded very similar to “What’s Up”.
Koum is worth $9.3 billion, and ranked #28 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
19. Pierre Omidyar
Business: Ebay
Net Worth: $ 11.1 billion
Started: 1995
Pierre Omidyar mini biography
Pierre Omidyar was born 21 June 1967. He is a French-was born, Iranian-American entrepreneur. He is known for creating the Ebay marketplace where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015.
Omidyar is worth $11.1 billion, and ranked #29 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
Omidyar and his wife Pamela are well-known humanitarians that founded the Omidyar Network. Omidyar has been associated with online writing since 2010 as the head of investigative reporting and public affairs news service.
Omidyar and his wife, Pamela, who lived in Henderson Nevada, now live on the beautiful island of Hawaii.
20. James Goodnight
Business: SAS Institute
Net Worth: $ 10.2 billion
Started: 1976
James Goodnight mini biography
James Goodnight was born 6 January 1943. He is an American software developer and businessman. He, and a number of other faculty members from the North Carolina State University decided to leave in 1976 to co-found the SAS Institute.
From the moment of establishment, he served as the firm’s CEO. His management and leadership style has created a multibillion-dollar organization, which has been studied by many other academics and organizations.
Goodnights family consists of three children, all of whom do not wish to continue the SAS legacy!
Goodnight is worth $10.2 billion and ranked #30 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
21. Eduardo Saverin
Business: Facebook
Net Worth: $ 11.2 billion
Started: 2004
Eduardo Saverin mini biography
Eduardo Saverin was born 19 March 1982. He is from Brazil and is an Angel Investor and Internet Entrepreneur.
Saverin is among the co-founders of Facebook. In his junior year at Harvard, he met Mark Zuckerberg, also a fellow Harvard undergraduate. The two of them launched Facebook.
Saverin was the business manager and CFO. Owning 53 million Facebook shares (around 0.4% of all shares). He has invested in new businesses such as Jumio and Qwiki.
In 2016, Saverin’s fund closed initial deals of over $140 million in Asia, including $30 million in up and coming regional logistics startup.
Saverin is worth $11.2 billion and ranked #27 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
22. Joseph Tsai
Business: Alibaba
Net Worth: $ 11.2 billion
Started: 1999
Joseph Tsai mini biography
Joseph Tsai was born in 1964 and is a Taiwanese-Canadian businessman. He is the founder and vice chairman of Alibaba. He is also President of the Crimson Group, chairman of the football club Rakuten Vissel Kobe, chairman of Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and also a board participant of Lyft.
He went to high school at the Lawrenceville College and went to Yale University where he played lacrosse.
He is worth $11.2 billion and ranked #31 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
23. David Duffield
Business: PeopleSoft
Net Worth: $ 8.7 billion
Started: 1987
David Duffield mini biography
David Duffield was born in 1941. He is an American businessman, working within the software industry. He is the founder and previous chairman of PeopleSoft, the co-founder as well as co-CEO of Workday, Inc.
Duffield is also known for his philanthropic activities on behalf of animals. In 1994, Duffield and his wife, Cheryl, established Maddie’s Fund, and has made headlines by announcing to pledge his entire $8.7 billion fortune to his animal charity, rather than his family!
Duffield is worth $8.7 billion and ranked #33 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
24. Hiroshi Mikitani
Business: Rakuten
Net Worth: $ 7.1 billion
Started: 1997
Hiroshi Mikitani mini biography
Hiroshi Mikitani was born 11 March 1965. He is a Japanese billionaire and the owner and founder of Rakuten. In 1996, Mikitani started considering various service models and also chose to launch an online shopping mall.
At the time, only Netscape was around as Amazon was just being launched. Google didn’t even exist then. Mikitani established the ecommerce business, MDM, Inc. with three co-founders introducing the on-line marketplace Rakuten Ichiba in Japan.
The business was later renamed Rakuten, Inc. Since it’s early beginnings as a tiny online marketplace, to a giant e-commerce store as it’s known today.
Mikitani is worth $.7.1 billion and ranked #33 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
25. Garrett Camp
Business: Uber
Net Worth: $ 4.8 billion
Started: 2009
Garrett Camp mini biography
Garrett Camp was born 4 October 1978, is an Investor and businessman from Canada. Whilst still at school, he created a web-discovery platform called StumbleUpon. In 2009, he co-founded the famous company Uber.
Camp married his childhood sweetheart Jordan Wyman on 3rd June 2017.
Garrett occasionally buys and also suggests brand-new startups. Formerly Garrett bought SoundTracking, Prism Skylabs,PSDept and WillCall.
Garrett was also an investor in Behance, prior to it being taken over by Adobe.
26. Brian Acton
Business: WhatsApp
Net Worth: $ 6.3 billion
Started: 2009
Brian Acton mini biography
Brian Acton was born 17 February 1972. He is from America and is the co-founder (along with Jan Koum) of WhatsApp a mobile messaging application which was bought by Facebook Inc.
With parents from a working middle class background, it was in fact Brian’s mother who told him to try his hand at business and had always been a pillar of strength throughout the ups and downs at the beginning of his career.
Acton is worth $6.3 billion and ranked #38 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
He went to Stanford College and studied computer science. In 1992, he ended up being a systems manager for Rockwell International, prior to becoming tester at Apple Inc. as well as Adobe Systems.
27. Kwon Hyuk-Bin
Business: Smilegate
Net Worth: $ 4.2 billion
Started: 2002
Kwon Hyuk-Bin mini biography
Kwon Hyuk-Bin was born in 1973. He started Smilegate and it developed into one of the most successful gaming businesses in South Korea. Working alongside with Chinese company Tencent, it launched it’s most well-known game called CrossFire.
Kwon is worth $4.2 billion and ranked #39 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
The Smilegate Foundation was set up and Kwon has developed schools in both Vietnam and China. These schools offer education in IT, amongst other subjects.
Kwon also has a 100% stake in Smilegate Holdings which is the largest shareholder of SundayToz, the Korean mobile game developer.
28. Gabe Newell
Business: Valve
Net Worth: $ 5.5 billion
Started: 1996
Gabe Newell mini biography
Gabe Newell was born 3 November 1962. His nickname is Gaben and is an American entrepreneur and computer programmer. He is most famous for being the co-founder and president of Valve Corporation, a video game development and distribution company.
Gabe was born in Seattle, and in the early 80’s studied at Harvard University. He dropped out and started working for Microsoft where he spent ten years working on some of Microsoft’s early operating systems.
Gabe Newell married his wife Lisa Mennet in 1996, and went on to have two sons, the identity of which has been kept secret.
He is worth $5.5 billion and ranked #43 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
29. Andy Bechtolsheim
Business: Google
Net Worth: $ 7.2 billion
Started: 1998
Andy Bechtolsheim mini biography
Andy Bechtolsheim was born 30 September 1955 is a self-made billionaire. He is from Germany and is an investor, electrical engineer and entrepreneur.
Co-founder of Sunlight Microsystems and became the company’s chief hardware designer.
His first product was the Sun-1. This included the Stanford CPU board style with improved memory development. It also wore a sheet-metal case. Later that year, the Ethernet interface made by Bechtolsheim was replaced by a commercial board from 3Com.
He is worth $7.2 billion and ranked #44 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
30. Ralph Dommermuth
Business: 1 & 1 Internet
Net Worth: $ 6.1 billion
Started: 1988
Ralph Dommermuth mini biography
Ralph Dommermuth was born 19 November 1963. He leads on of Germany’s biggest Internet access providers, United Internet AG. This serves small to medium sized businesses and homes as well as web hosting, email services and storage.
He launched 1&1 Back in 1988.
Dommermuth trained as a banker, prior to changing his career to sales.
He is Germany’s only internet billionaire as well as the nation’s youngest self-made billionaire. He married his wife Judith Berger who’s a model, and he also has a son from a previous marriage.
Dommermuth is worth $6.1 billion and ranked #46 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
31. Travis Kalanick
Business: Uber
Net Worth: $ 4.8 billion
Started: 2009
Travis Kalanick mini biography
Travis Kalanick was born 6 August 1976 is an American businessman. He is the founder of the file sharing company Red Swoosh. He is also the former CEO of transportation network business Uber.
In 2014, he entered the Forbes list of the 400 wealthiest Americans, at position 190. Kalanick started out with an online file-exchange service called Scour.
Although this isn’t official news, it has been reported that Travis Kalanick didn’t take a salary while he was at Uber. The majority of his net worth comes from his equity stake of 10% which is valued at approximately $5 billion.
Kalanick is worth $4.8 billion and ranked #48 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
32. David Cheriton
Business: Google
Net Worth: $ 6.5 billion
Started: 1998
David Cheriton mini biography
David Cheriton was born 29 March 1951 is from Canada. He specializes in computer science, he is a mathematician, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and a business investor. He was educated at the University of Waterloo and British Columbia.
He is worth $6.5 billion, and ranked #50 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
He is a computer science professor at Stanford University. He founded and runs the Distributed Systems Group. He has actually founded and invested in modern technology businesses, including Google, where he was one of their first investors.
33. Kim Jung-Ju
Business: Nexon
Net Worth: $ 6.9 billion
Started: 1994
Kim Jung-Ju mini biography
Kim Jung-Ju was born 22nd February 1968 is a Korean entrepreneur who co-founded Korea’s largest gaming company, Nexon. He owns NXC, which is the 20-year-old holding company of Nexon.
He studied at Seoul National University and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in computer science and engineering. He also has a masters and PhD in computer science and electronic engineering when he studied at the Institute of Science and Technology in Korea.
He is married to Yoo Jung Hyun, and has two children.
He is worth $6.9 billion and ranked #51 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
34. David Filo
Business: Yahoo!
Net Worth: $6 billion
Started: 1995
David Filo mini biography
David Filo was born 20 April 1966 is an American businessman and the founder of Yahoo! alongside Jerry Yang. In 1994, both he and Jerry co-created website called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web”. This was a directory listing other websites. It later became “Yahoo!”
David Filo married Angela Buenning, who is both a teacher and photographer by profession. They remain very private when it comes down to their personal life, and Angela is involved together with David in the support of different charities and organizations.
He is worth $6 billion and ranked #53 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
35. Rony Abovitz
Business: Magic Jump
Net Worth: $ 4.50 B
Started: 2010
Rony Abovitz mini biography
Rony Abovitz was born 1971 is an American business owner. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Magic Leap.
In October 2017, Magic Leap joined up with Madefire, an online comic book publisher.
Before Magic Leap, Abovitz co-founded MAKO Surgical Corporation which is a company that manufactured robotic arm assistance platforms.
Rony Abovitz is worth $4.5 billion.
36. Mark Scheinberg
Business: PokerStars
Net Worth: $ 4.8 billion
Started: 2001
Mark Scheinberg mini biography
Mark Scheinberg was born in 1973 is an Israeli-Canadian businessman. He is the founder and previously the co-owner of PokerStars, the online gambling company.
Mark founded PokerStars together with his father, Isai Scheinberg, who is a qualified computer programmer. His father also worked for IBM Canada as a senior programmer.
It was in June 2014 that Rational Group Ltd, PokerStars parent company was sold to Amaya Video Gaming Group of Canada for $4.5 billion. Scheinberg was CEO and also 75% shareholder of Rational, which, also owned Full Tilt Poker.
He is worth $4.8 billion and ranked #55 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
37. Marc Benioff
Business: Salesforce
Net Worth: $6 billion
Started: 1999
Marc Benioff mini biography
Marc Benioff was born 25 September 1964 is an American internet entrepreneur as well as an author. He is the founder, CEO and chairman of Salesforce, one of the most well-known cloud computing company’s in the world.
Marc Benioff is married to Lynnie Benioff, and they live with their two children in San Francisco, California. In March 2018, Benioff announced that he would be donating 1 million USD to ‘March For Our Lives’, a charity to help protect children, of which he is very passionate about.
He is worth $6 billion and ranked #56 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
38. Yusaku Maezawa
Business: Zozotown
Net Worth: $ 3.8 billion
Started: 1998
Yusaku Maezawa mini biography
Yusaku Maezawa was born 22 November 1975 is a Japanese businessman and a known contemporary art collector. He started his business called the Start Today Company back in 1998, and Zoszotown, the online fashion retail website, in 2004.
Yusaka is an art collector, and is best known for his record breaking purchase of a Basquiat for $110.5 million.
He is worth $3.8 billion and ranked #59 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
Start Today had moved to an online platform, had started selling clothes, and had become a public company.
39. Joe Gebbia
Business: Airbnb
Net Worth: $ 3.8 billion
Started: 2006
Joe Gebbia mini biography
Joe Gebbia was born 21 August 1981 and is a US-based designer and online businessman. He co-founded Airbnb and became Chief Product Officer.
He attended Brookwood High School in Snellville, Gwinnett County, Georgia, and graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design where he achieved a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Design and Industrial Design.
In 2007, he and his friend Chesky started their own business together. As their landlord had increased their rent, it gave them the idea of renting out airbeds in their apartment to attendees at a local conference. This is where the name comes from. AirBed & Breakfast.
He is worth $3.8 billion, and ranked #65 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
In 2009, Gebbia was listed in BusinessWeek’s Top 20 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs.
40. Nathan Blecharczyk
Business: Airbnb
Net Worth: $ 3.8 billion
Started: 2008
Nathan Blecharczyk mini biography
Nathan Blecharczyk was born in 1984 is a US-based entrepreneur who is the co-founder and chief strategy officer of Airbnb. Formerly, the company’s first chief technology officer.
He is worth $3.8 billion and ranked #65 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
Later Blecharczyk collaborated with Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia and started Airbnb. He is the chief technology officer and coded the company’s original website using Ruby on Rails.
41. Brian Chesky
Business: Airbnb
Net Worth: $ 3.8 billion
Started: 2008
Brian Chesky mini biography
42. Denise Coates
Business: 50Bet365
Net Worth: $4.7 billion
Started: 2000
Denise Coates mini biography
Denise Coates was born 26 September 1967 is an English businesswoman, creator and joint chief executive of the online betting company Bet365.
While working in a shed on a parking lot near one of her shops, she spent a year producing a new online betting site.
She is worth $4.7 billion, and ranked #69 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
43. Teddy Sagi
Business: Playtech
Net Worth: $ 3.4 billion
Started: 1999
Teddy Sagi mini biography
Teddy Sagi was born in 1972 and is a formerly London based entrepreneur. He created the gambling software company Playtech. He also own’s the famous London’s Camden Market.
Unfortunately, Sagi was sentenced to 9 months in prison in 1996 for “grave deceit, bribery and insider trading”, after being found guilty of manipulating bond prices in Israel. He is now a major shareholder in SafeCharge Playtech and owns 6.3% of the company Playtech, which he founded in 1999.
He is worth $3.4 billion and ranked #69 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
44. Rishi Shah
Business: Outcome Health
Net Worth: $ 3.6 billion
Started: 2006
Rishi Shah mini biography
Rishi Shah was born 1986 is an US billionaire who created Outcome Health. He owns 80% of the company.
He is worth $3.6 billion and ranked #69 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
Following a funding round with CapitalG, Pritzker Group, Goldman Sachs and others invested $600 million into Outcome Health. This gave it a valuation of $5.6 billion.
This is the biggest single funding round, since Groupon raised $950 million in it’s 5th round of funding, back in 2011.
45. Yuri Milner
Business: Mail.ru
Net Worth: $ 3.7 billion
Started: 1999
Yuri Milner mini biography
Yuri Milner was born 11 November 1961 is a Russian entrepreneur, physicist and venture capitalist. Milner is Russia’s most influential investor in technology as the creator of investment firm Digital Sky Technologies now called Mail.ru Group and DST Global.
He owns one of the most expensive houses in Los Angeles and was estimated to have cost him $100 million.
He is worth $3.7 billion and ranked #72 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
With DST Global, Milner is an investor in Twitter, Facebook, Spotify, Groupon, , Alibaba, WhatsApp, Zynga, ZocDoc, AirBnB, Planet Labs, Flipkart, JD.com, Xiaomi, OlaCabsHabito, Wish and a lot more.
46. Judith Faulkner
Business: Epic Systems
Net Worth: $ 3.6 billion
Started: 1979
Judith Faulkner mini biography
Judith Faulkner was born August 1943 and is the founder of Epic Systems. This company is a healthcare software company based in Wisconsin. It was originally called Human Services Computing and established in 1979.
Judith’s husband Dr Gordon Faulkner also belongs to the medical health sector.
She is worth $3.6 billion and ranked #73 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
47. Robert Cornelius Murphy (Bobby Murphy)
Business: SnapChat
Net Worth: $3.1 billion
Started: 2011
Bobby Murphy mini biography
Bobby Murphy was born 19 July 1988 and is an American engineer and internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and also the CTO of the American Multinational innovation and social media sites company Snap Inc., which he developed (as Snapchat Inc.) along with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown while they were studying at Stanford University.
Bobby’s father grew up in America, and his mother in the Philippines. His father Richard Cornelius Murphy, Jr. works for the state of California. He is as a government employee of English, Irish, and Scottish descent.
He is worth $3.1 billion and ranked #76 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
48. Evan Spiegel
Business: SnapChat
Net Worth: $ 3.1 billion
Started: 2011
Evan Spiegel mini biography
Evan Spiegel was born 4 June 1990 is an American online businessman. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the American multinational innovation and social media business Snap Inc., which he created (as Snapchat Inc.) with Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown while they were studying at Stanford University.
Evan Spiegel’s parents Melissa Ann Thomas and John W. Spiegel are both lawyers. He came from a very affluent family, and as a teenager he would receive a weekly allowance of $250. His parents later divorced.
He is worth $3.1 billion and ranked #76 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
49. Wang Xing
Business: Meituan
Net Worth: $ 4.1 billion
Started: 2010
Wang Xing mini biography
Wang Xing was born 18 February 1979 and is the co-chair of Meituan-Dianping, a company created by Groupon-like group, buying site Meituan and Yelp-like Dianping.com.
He is also an investor in Maoyan.com, an online movie ticketing business in China.
He studied at Tsinghua University where he received an electronic engineering bachelor’s degree and at the University of Delaware, he received a master’s in computer engineering.
Xing is worth $4.1 billion and ranked #76 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
50. Reid Hoffman
Business: LinkedIn
Net Worth: $ 3.3 billion
Started: 2002
Reid Hoffman mini biography
Reid Hoffman was born 5 August 1967 is a US based online businessman, investor and writer. Hoffman was the co-creator and executive chairman of LinkedIn.
He grew up in Berkeley, where his parents were both Lawyers.
Currently, he is a partner at Greylock Partners, a venture capital firm. He was the executive vice president of PayPal, before it was sold to eBay, in 2001 for $1.5B. Shortly after the sale of PayPal, Hoffman became a successful angel investor in Silicon Valley.
Hoffman is worth $3.3 billion and ranked #76 on Forbes’s richest people in the Tech industry list.
51. Shi Yuzhu
Business: Giant Interactive
Net Worth: $ 1.99 billion
Started: 2004
Shi Yuzhu mini biography
Shi Yuzhu was born September 1962 is a Chinese businessman and software program engineer.
Chairman of the Board and also CEO of Giant Interactive. This is one of China’s most successful online video game businesses.
He is worth $1.99 billion and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
52. Jia Yueting
Business: Le. com
Net Worth: $ 3.8 billion
Started: 2004
Jia Yueting mini biography
Jia Yueting was born 6 February 1973 and is the former Chief Executive Officer of Le.com. LeSports was also founded by him, which is a subsidiary of Le.com.
He was the biggest shareholder of the company Coolpad Group. And former owner of Sinotel Industries, a company in Singapore.
Jia’s wife Gan Wei, who is also known as Vivian Gan, is a Chinese actress and also the founder of LeYoung Pictures which produced the hit web series Go Princess Go.
He is worth $3.80 billion and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
53. Barry Diller
Business: Expedia
Net Worth: $ 3.3 billion
Started: 1996
Barry Diller mini biography
Barry Diller was born 2 February 1942 and is a US entrepreneur. He is currently the Senior Executive and Chairman Expedia Inc.and IAC/InterActiveCorp. He is also the media executive that was responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting.
Barry Diller has been outspoken regarding Donald Trump, branding his presidency as a joke.
He is also a member of the Television Hall of Fame, when he was inducted in 1994.
He is worth $3.3 billion and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
54. Peter Thiel
Business: Paypal
Net Worth: $ 2.5 billion
Started: 1998
Peter Thiel mini biography
Peter Thiel was born 11 October 1967 and is an American venture capitalist, political activist, philanthropist, author and entrepreneur.
Born in Germany, he also holds a German Citizenship.
He co-founded Paypal back in 1999, where he was CEO. He stayed there until eBay bought them out. Before this, he was a judicial clerk.
When he left PayPal, he set up a global macro hedge fund business called Clarium Capital. He also launched an analytical software company in 2004 called Palantir Technologies, and continues to serve as their chairman today.
He is worth $2.5 billion, and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
55. Michael Rubin
Business: Kynetic
Net Worth: $ 3 billion
Started: 2011
Michael Rubin mini biography
Michael Rubin was born 1972 is an US based entrepreneur. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Kynetic, which is a direct-to-consumer e-commerce business, which he established in 2011.
He is also the Executive Chairman to three companies; Rue La La, which is a flash sales site, Fanatics, the leading online seller in the world that sells licensed sports merchandise; and a members only service for online shoppers, ShopRunner.
He previously founded GSI Commerce, before selling it to eBay in 2011.
In October 2011, Michael Rubin bought a minority share in the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team, and then two years later bought shares in the New Jersey Devils Hockey team for $320 million
He is worth $3 billion and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
56. Bob Parsons
Business: GoDaddy
Net Worth: $ 2.7 billion
Started: 1997
Bob Parsons mini biography
Bob Parsons was born 27 November 1950 and is a billionaire. He founded the GoDaddy Group including domain registrar GoDaddy.com, reseller registrar Wild West Domains and also Blue Razor Domains.
He sold 70% of GoDaddy, in 2011 and resigned as the CEO. Then in 2014, he stood down as Executive Chairman. He is currently on GoDaddy’s board.
Parsons owns 28 percent of the company and holds the largest share. He is also a humanitarian.
He is worth $2.7 billion and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
57. Scott Cook
Business: Intuit
Net Worth: $ 3.9 billion
Started: 1983
Scott Cook mini biography
Scott Cook was born 1952. He co-founded Intuit. Since 1983, he has been a director as well as chairman of the executive committee. He is also a director of both Proctor & Gamble and eBay.
Cook’s career began at Proctor & Gamble and this is where he learnt about marketing, market research and product development. He later moved to Bain and Company, where he was a strategic consultant.
He launched Intuit, which offers online products and software that helps small companies and people to manage their finances.
He has a bachelor’s degree in both Math’s and Economics.
Cook is married to Signe Ostby. She has worked for both Procter & Gamble, and Clorox before launching a Software Publishing Company.
He is worth $3.9 billion, and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
58. Scott Farquhar
Business: Atlassian
Net Worth: $ 4.5 billion
Started: 2002
Scott Farquhar mini biography
Scott Farquhar was born December 1979 and was born in Australia. He is a billionaire.
Co-founding the software company Atlassian, he is also the CEO. His business partner is Mike Cannon-Brookes.
Scott Farquhar has bought the most expensive house in Australia, setting a record for the mansion for the Sydney Point Piper property.
Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar were identified for their achievements as the Australian IT Expert of the Year honor in 2004. He is also a teacher at the College of New South Wales’ School of Computer Science and Engineering.
He is worth $4.5 billion and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
59. Jerry Yang
Business: Yahoo!
Net Worth: $ 2.8 billion
Started: 1994
Jerry Yang mini biography
Jerry Yang was born 6 November 1968 and is an American Internet entrepreneur and computer programmer. He is one of the owners and also previous Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo! Inc. After leaving Yahoo! he ended up being an advisor to modern technology start-ups and an investor through his company, AME Cloud Ventures.
Yang is currently married to Akiko Yamazaki and they have two children together. She is the Director of the Wildlife Conservation Network.
AME (noticable “ah-meh”) has actually supplied funding to over 50 startups, including Evernote, Tango, Wattpad and a Chinese traveling site called Shijiebang.
Yang met Alibaba creator Jack Ma during Yang’s initial trip to China. Several months later, Ma created Alibaba. There is a photo of the two of them by the Great Wall of China, which still hangs today in Alibabas office in Hangzhou.
In 2014, Yang re-joined the board of Alibaba.
He is worth $2.8 billion and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
60. Michael Cannon-Brookes
Business: Atlassian
Net Worth: $4.5 billion
Started: 2002
Michael Cannon-Brookes mini biography
Michael Cannon-Brookes was born November 1979 and is an Australian billionaire; the creator and co-CEO of the software firm Atlassian. He started the company with Scott Farquhar.
Michael is married to Annie Todd and they have 4 children together and live in Sydney’s suburbs.
He is likewise a good teacher at the University of New South Wales’ College of Computer Science and Engineering. In 2009, Cannon-Brookes was honoured by the World Economic Online Forum as a Young Global Leader.
He is worth $4.5 billion and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
61. Sam Yagan
Business: OkCupid
Net Worth: $ 2.4 bilion
Started: 1999
Sam Yagan mini biography
Sam Yagan was born 10 April 1977 and is an American Internet Entrepreneur. He co-founded OkCupid, a dating website.
He later sold his company in 2011 for $50million, and became CEO of Match.com in 2012.
He is also the CEO of Shoprunner.com.
Sam’s wife is his high school sweetheart Jessica Droste Yagan.
He was listed at TIME Magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’, in 2013 and is worth $2.4 billion.
62. Sean Parker
Business: Napster
Net Worth: $ 2.6 billion
Started: 2009
Sean Parker mini biography
Sean Parker was born 3 December 1979 and is a philanthropist and American entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Napster, the file-sharing computer service. He was the very first president of Facebook.
He also started Plaxo, Airtime, Causes, as well as Brigade, a civic engagement online platform.
In 2010, he invested $15million USD into Spotify, and he is now believed to be worth $2.6 billion.
Sean Parker together with his wife Alexandra want to end cancer as we know it, by changing the model for funding medical research.
63. Gil Shwed
Business: Check Factor
Net Worth: $ 2.7 billion
Started: 1993
Gil Shwed mini biography
Gil Shwed was born 5 July 1967 is an Israeli software application engineer, innovator and entrepreneur. He is the CEO and co-founder of Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, among Israel’s biggest technology companies and the globe’s biggest pure-play cybersecurity businesses.
Shwed created Check Point together with his good friend from the military, Shlomo Kramer, as well as Marius Nacht, whom which he worked with at Optrotech.
Now, he is worth $2.7 billion and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
64. Kavitark Ram Shriram
Business: Google
Net Worth: $ 2.1 billion
Started: 1998
Kavitark Ram Shriram mini biography
Kavitark Ram Shriram was born January 1957. Born in India, he is now an American businessman.
He is one of the first ever investors in Google as well as being a founding board member.
Earlier on in his career, he went to Amazon.com as their officer in 1988.
Before going to Amazon, he was on the executive team at Netscape.
Shriram worked in Amazon in August 1998, when Amazon bought Junglee, an online shopping site which Shriram was in charge. Before Junglee and Amazon.com, Shriram was a member of the Netscape executive team.
Kavitark is married to Vidjealatchoumy “Vijay” Shriram, and have two daughters, both of which studied at Stanford. The couple have also served on the Stanford’s Parents Advisory Board dating back to 2006.
Now he has a net worth of $2.1 billion.
65. James H. Clark
Business: Netscape
Net Worth: $ 2.1 billion
Started: 1999
James H. Clark mini biography
James H. Clark was born 23 March 1944. He is a computer scientist as well as being an American entrepreneur. He established a number of well-known Silicon Valley modern technology firms, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Firm, myCFO, and also Healtheon.
From 1979 to 1984, James Clark was an associate professor of electrical engineering at Stanford.
His research work which was computer graphics, steered him into developing systems of 3D computer images.
In 1999, he launched myCFO, a firm developed to help rich Silicon Valley people manage their money.
Now, he’s worth $2.1 billion.
66. David Karp
Business: Tumblr
Net Worth: $ 200 million
Started: 2007
David Karp mini biography
David Karp was born 6 July 1986. He is the founder as well as Chief Executive Officer of the blogging platform Tumblr.
He started his success as a trainee under Fred Seibert, where he designed the studio’s initial blog platform and also conceived, wrote, and modified their very first web video clip network, Channel Frederator.
Karp’s total net worth is $200 million, and has been valued at $800 million, according to Forbes.
67. Eric Lefkofsky
Business: Groupon
Net Worth: $ 2.1 billion
Started: 2008
Eric Lefkofsky mini biography
Eric Lefkofsky was born September 1969. He is an American business owner. Co-founding Tempus. He is also their CEO.
He is also chairman and co-founder of Groupon, as well as co-founder of ECHO (Echo Global Logistics), Mediaocean, INWK (InnerWorkings) and Uptake.
He is also one of the creators of the Chicago-based venture capital company, Lightbank. In addition, he produced an online business called Starbelly that concentrated on promotional products.
Eric Lefkofsky has donated millions of dollars of his own money toward cancer research, and is now behind a new startup which wants to use a smarter approach in the race to cure cancer.
He is worth $2.1 billion and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
68. Reed Hastings Also Known As (Wilmot Reed Hastings Jr.)
Business: Netflix
Net Worth: $4 billion
Started: 1997
Reed Hastings mini biography
Reed Hastings was born 8 October 1960 and is an American entrepreneur. He is one of the creators and ceo of Netflix. He also sits on the boards of Facebook as well as a number of non-profit organizations.
Reed studied and graduated from a private school in Cambridge, he then joined the Bowdoin College and studied mathematics. He also went on to serve in the Marine Corps officer training, through their Platoon Leader Class of 1981.
Hastings’ very first job was at a company called Adaptive Innovation, where he created a device for debugging software. Hastings belongs to the Technology Network, which is a political network of business executives who promote growth, technology and innovation.
He is also a humanitarian and serves a number of charitable companies. Now, he’s worth $4 billion.
69. Jack Dorsey
Business: Twitter
Net Worth: $4.9 billion
Started: 2006
Jack Dorsey mini biography
Jack Dorsey was born 19 November 1976. He is an American computer programmer as well as an Internet entrepreneur. He is most famous for co-founding Twitter. He is current their CEO.
He is also the co-founder of a mobile payments company known as Square.
Stone, Williams, alongside Noah Glass co-founded the company Obvious Corporation, which then spun off Twitter Inc. with Dorsey as the CEO.
Dorsey, and Jim McKelvey developed a small business platform that accepted credit and debit card payments on a mobile device – Square.
One of Jack Dorsey’s quotes is “Success is never accidental”.
Now, he has a total net worth of $4.9 billion.
70. Claus Wellenreuther
Business: SAP SE
Net Worth: $ 1.83 B
Started: 1971
Claus Wellenreuther mini biography
Claus Wellenreuther was born in 1935 and is a German entrepreneur and founder of software firm SAP SE. He left IBM then joined his former IBM colleagues Hasso Plattner, Dietmar Hopp, Hans-Werner Hector as well as Klaus Tschira to establish the software application firm “Systeme Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung”, also knows as SAP AG.
Wellenreuther was mostly in charge of the architecture and the concept of the SAP R/2 financial accountancy module and now he has a net worth of $1.83 billion.
71. Michael Morhaime
Business: Blizzard Entertainment
Net Worth: $ 1.8 billion
Started: 1991
Michael Morhaime mini biography
Michael Morhaime was born 3 November 1967 and is president and co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, a computer game developer based in Irvine, California. This is owned by Activision Blizzard.
Morhaime was Vice President of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., which is a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. He was also on the executive board at Vivendi Games, in 1999 when Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. came to be a subsidiary of Vivendi Games.
He is worth $1.8 billion and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
72. Stewart Butterfield
Business: Slack
Net Worth: $ 1.69 billion
Started: 2013
Stewart Butterfield mini biography
Stewart Butterfield was born in 1973 and is a Canadian businessowner and entrepreneur. He is from Poland originally. He is most known for being the co-founder of Flickr, the photo-sharing site and Slack, the team messaging app.
Butterfied was married to his Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake from 2001 to 2007 and have one daughter together.
In 2000, Butterfield set up a company called Gradfinder.com, with a friend. After that, he became a freelance web designer. Butterfield also established a competition for website designers known as the 5K competition which is aimed at designing a website under 5 kilobytes.
His total net worth is $ 1.69 billion.
73. Kris Gopalakrishnan
Business: Infosys
Net Worth: $ 1.91 billion
Started: 1981
Kris Gopalakrishnan mini biography
Kris Gopalakrishnan was born 5 April 1955 and is one of its 7 founders of Infosys, a global consulting and IT services company in India. He is the executive vice chairman (former chairman).
He was voted to be the President of India’s apex industry chamber Confederation of Indian Industry for the year 2013-14. In 2014 he co-founded Axilor Ventures, which is a capital venture platform for up and coming entrepreneurs.
Kris is one of the largest donors to the institute of science in Bangalore where he contributed 40 million USD into developing a Centre for Brain Research.
He also released the 5th edition of IBETO organized yearly by Govt. Design University, Kochi On March 8, 2016, Gopalakrishnan.
He is said to be worth $1.67 billion.
74. Todd Wagner
Business: Broadcast
Net Worth: $ 1.68 billion
Started: 1995
Todd Wagner mini biography
Todd Wagner was born 2 August 1960 and co-founded Broadcast.com. He is currently founder and also the chairman of the Charity Network with a net worth of $ 1.68 billion.
He teamed up with Mark Cuban and they launched AudioNet, which broadcasts both live sporting events and radio stations online. This was very successful.
Wagner is also a known humanitarian and funded his own Todd Wagner Foundation. After meeting with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wagner set up his very first children’s program, the Dallas chapter of the After-School All-Stars (after that called Inner-City Games). This was in 2001.
75. Alex Karp
Business: Palantir Technologies
Net Worth: $ 1.3 billion
Started: 2004
Alex Karp mini biography
Alex Karp was born 2 October 1967 and is an American business owner, founder and Chief Executive Officer of the software company known as Palantir Technologies.
Alex Karp gained his Law Degree from Stanford University, and went on to receive his PhD in Neoclassical Social Theory from the University of Frankfurt.
Prior to co-founding Palantir, Karp established Caedmon GroupKarp.
He is worth $1.3 billion and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
76. Ben Silbermann
Business: Pinterest
Net Worth: $ 1.57 billion
Started: 2010
Ben Silbermann mini biography
Ben Silbermann was born in 1982 and is a US Internet entrepreneur. He is one of the founders and is Chief Executive Officer of Pinterest, a digital pinboard which allows individuals to organize images, links, recipes and other things.
The web site allows customers to create and take care of theme-based photo collections called “pinboards”. It includes events, passions, pastimes and more.
He attended Yale, graduating in 2003 with a degree in Political Science.
Silbermann says that the genesis of Pinterest really originated from his love of collecting as a youngster.
He is said to be worth $1.57 billion USD.
77. Ken Howery
Business: Paypal
Net Worth: $ 1.5 billion
Started: 1998
Ken Howery mini biography
Ken Howery was born 4 November 1975 and is one of the founders at Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based financial backing firm with over $3 billion under management.
He is one of the creators of PayPal and was there as CFO. Howery then went back to Thiel in 2004 at Clarium Capital Management. He took the position of vice president of private equity, as well as being a member of the trading and research teams.
He is also an advisor to Kiva, which is a charitable organization enabling people to be able to lend money to low earning entrepreneurs through the internet.
He is worth $1.5 billion, and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
78. Mark Jonathan Greg Pincus
Business: Zynga
Net Worth: $ 1.62 billion
Started: 2007
Mark Pincus mini biography
Mark Pincus was born 13 February 1966 and is a US Internet entrepreneur. He is most known for co-founding the company Zynga, that develops online games. Zynga’s leading games include– Bubble Safari, CastleVille, ChefVille, CityVille, CityVille 2 and so on.
Mark is married to Alison Gelb, and together they have 3 children.
He also started Freeloader, Inc., Tribe Networks, and Support.com. He worked as the CEO of Zynga up until July 2013.
His company was considered to be the pioneer of the social gaming market. Within 4 years after Pincus established Zynga, the firm had actually gone public with $1 billion in revenue.
He is said to be worth $1.49 billion USD.
79. Steven McConnell Case
Business: AOL
Net Worth: $ 1.33 billion
Started: 1983
Steve Instance mini biography
Steve Instance was born August 21st 1958 and is an American businessman, investor and entrepreneur. He is one of the creators and former chief executive officer of America Online (AOL).
He was also knows as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE). After he retired as chairman of AOL Time Warner in 2003, he invested in early and growth-stage startups through his Washington, D.C. based equity capital firm Revolution LLC.
He supports comprehensive entrepreneurship and development through the Rise of the Rest road trips and the Case Foundation.
80. Marcos Galperin
Business: MercadoLibre
Net Worth: $ 1.39 billion
Started: 1999
Marcos Galperin mini biography
Marcos Galperin was born 31 October 1971 AND is an Argentina-based business owner, who is the creator and Chief Executive Officer of MercadoLibre.com.
He was was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to a very wealthy family, who were the owners of SADESA, one of the largest leather companies in the world.
Marcos started the firm while still in business school at Stanford University. Financing professor Jack McDonald had actually been aiding Marcos to contact prospective financiers.
He has a total net worth of $1.39 billion, and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
81. Kevin York Systrom
Business: Instagram
Net Worth: $1.65 billion
Started: 2010
Kevin Systrom mini biography
Kevin Systrom was born 30 December 1983. He is a programmer and American entrepreneur. He is one of the co-founders of Instagram, along with Mike Krieger.
Kevin met his wife Nicole Schuetz at Alma Mater which is held at Stanford.
After graduating from Stanford University, he started his career at Google where he was an associate product marketing manager.
When he left Google, he went onto Nextstop.
He also developed programs that play tricks on his friends by pretending up to hack their AOL Instant Messenger accounts.
82. Binny Bansal
Business: Flipkart
Net Worth: $1 billion
Started: 2007
Binny Bansal mini biography
Binny Bansal was born 5 August 1981 and is an Indian software program engineer and Web entrepreneur with a net worth of $1 billion.
He is from Chandigarh in northern India, and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi where he gained his degree in computer science and engineering.
In 2007 he co-founded the ecommerce platform Flipkart along with Sachin Bansal (unrelated) and was acting as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 when he got promoted to Chief Executive Officer.
Before Flipkart, he was rejected twice, by Google, and later employed with Amazon. Binny Bansal and Sachin Bansal at first, thought of establishing a comparison search engine; however, soon realized that the marketplace for e-commerce in India was extremely small.
83. Craig Newmark
Business: Craigslist
Net Worth: $ 1.31 billion
Started: 1995
Craig Newmark mini biography
Craig Newmark was born 6 December 1952 and is a US based online entrepreneur and known as the founder of the San Francisco-based international website called Craigslist.
For 17 years Newmark worked at IBM as a developer, setting up home in New Jersey.
Presently, Newmark devotes most of his time to philanthropy, concentrating on services for teachers, veterans and also combating online harassment.
Now, he has a net worth of a $1.31 billion.
84. Chen Tianqiao
Business: Shanda
Net Worth: $1.4 billion
Started: 1999
Chen Tianqiao mini biography
Chen Tianqiao was born in 1973 and is a Chinese Singaporean businessman. He set up the Shanda Group as an online video games firm with his family.
Shanda became the first Chinese online video games company to belisted the United States on Nasdaq. The business came to be the biggest online business in China by in 2004.
The firm was taken private in early 2012, and Tianqiao Chen and his family sold all their stakes in Shanda Gamings in Nov 2014 when the company became an international private investment company.
He is worth $1.4 billion and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
85. Sachin Bansal
Business: Flipkart
Net Worth: $1.6 billion
Started: 2007
Sachin Bansal mini biography
Sachin Bansal was born 5 August 1981 and is an Indian Software program designer and one of the founders of India’s e-commerce system called Flipkart.
Sachin is from Chandigarh and also is an engineering grad from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.
Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal (not related) introduced Flipkart from an apartment or condo in Bangalore with 400,000 rupees ($ 6,500) money. Now, he has a net worth of $1.6 billion.
86. Luke Nosek
Business: Paypal
Net Worth: $1.2 billion
Started: 1998
Luke Nosek mini biography
Luke Nosek was born 1975 and is a Polish-born American business owner, notable for being a co-founder of PayPal with a total net worth of $1.2 billion.
After PayPal went public and was marketed to eBay, Nosek left the company to take a trip and try his luck at angel investing.
In 2005, with Peter Thiel and Ken Howery, he started Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm with over $1bn under monitoring. Luke Nosek currently remains on the boards of SpaceX and also ResearchGate.
87. Aneel Bhusri
Business: Workday
Net Worth: $ 1.78 billion
Started: 2005
Aneel Bhusri mini biography
He also has a total net worth of $1.78 billion.
He is the co-founder as well as CEO of WorkDay, Inc., a member of the board of directors of Intel, as well as being a partner with Greylock Partners.
He went to Brown College and got his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. He started his career as a company finance analyst at Morgan Stanley.
Aneel lives in the city with his wife, Allison Thoreson Bhusri, and their daughter.
88. Lee Hae-Jin
Business: Naver
Net Worth: $1.1 billion
Started: 1999
Lee Hae-Jin mini biography
Lee Hae-Jin was born 22nd June 1967 and started Naver, currently South Korea’s most prominent online search engine, whilst he was still working at Samsung SDS in 90s. Now he has a net worth of $1.1 billion.
The firm’s instant messaging system known as Line, is Japan’s leading messaging application, boasting to have 215 million customers, globally.
In 2016, Line became the biggest technology IPOs of the year.
In 2017, Lee stood down as chairman as he wanted to concentrate on European and North American markets.
89. Arkady Yurievich Volozh
Business: Yandex
Net Worth: $1.47 billion
Started: 1997
Arkady Volozh mini biography
Arkady Volozh was born 11 February 1964 and is the primary creator Yandex, the Russian online search engine. He later went onto co-founding other enterprises within the IT industry, such as; CompTek International and InfiNet Wireless (Russian wireless networking technology provider).
He co-founded another company in 1989 called CompTek, and it wasn’t until 1989 that he began working on search. This ultimately led to the establishment of the company Arkadia in 1990 with it’s main focus on developing search software. He has a net worth of $1.47 billion.
90. Patrick Collison
Business: Stripe
Net Worth: $1 billion
Started: 2011
Patrick Collison mini biography
Patrick Collison was born 9 September 1988 and was born in Ireland. He is an entrepreneur and is better known for introducing the world to Stripe. He is formerly the CEO of Stripe. He started Stripe with John, his brother back in 2010.
Back in 2005, at the age of just 16, he won first prize at the Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition. He now lives in San Francisco.
Both him and his brother are currently worth approximately $1 billion each. This was after they managed to raise $150 million from CapitalG, who are an investment division of Alphabet and General Catalyst Partners, a parent company of Google.
91. John Collison
Business: Stripe
Net Worth: $1.1 billion
Started: 2011
John Collison mini biography
John Collison was born 6 August 1990. Along with his brother Patrick, he is an entrepreneur from Ireland and is the co-owner of Stripe.
Both him and his brother are currently worth approximately $1 billion each. This was after they managed to raise $150 million from CapitalG, who are an investment division of Alphabet and General Catalyst Partners, a parent company of Google.
The brothers became the world’s youngest self-made billionaires in 2016.
92. Evan Sharp
Business: Pinterest
Net Worth: $ 1.04 billion
Started: 2010
Evan Sharp mini biography
Evan Sharp was born 1 January 1982 and is the Chief Creative officer and co-founder of Pinterest. He is an American Entrepreneur.
Sharp was introduced to Ben Silbermann (Pinterest’s CEO) in New York City via a mutual friend. He later set up home in California and started working at Facebook with the role of product designer. He later joined forces with Paul Sciarra and Silbernann so that they could spend all their time on their main interest, Pinterest.
Evan married his college sweetheart Christina McBride in 2014.
Sharp now oversees the product and design, growth and international efforts of the company with a net worth of $1.04 billion.
93.Andrew (Drew) Houston
Business: Dropbox
Net Worth: $4.2 billion
Started: 2007
Drew Houston mini biography
Drew Houston was born 4 March 1983. Drew lives in America and is an Internet entrepreneur.
Drew set up Dropbox in 2007 and is currently the CEO. Prior to this, Drew established many other startups. These include Accolade, Bit9 and Hubspot.
Inc.com even named him as being amongst the top 30 under 30 entrepreneurs.
Dropbox has also been referred to being one of the best startups in Silicon Valley. He has a net worth of $4.2 billion.
One of Drews inspirational quotes states, “Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.”
94. Bharat Desai
Business: Syntel
Net Worth: $1.45 billion
Started: 1980
Bharat Desai mini biography
Bharat Desai was born November 1952. He grew up in Kenya. Along with his wife, Neerja Sethi, they are the co-founders of Syntel. He is also the chairman.
Desai also sits on the board of a variety of educational institutions. These include; Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Now, he is worth $1.45 billion and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
95. Dietmar Hopp
Business: SAP SE
Net Worth: $11.2 billion
Started: 1972
Dietmar Hopp mini biography
Dietmar Hopp was born 26 April 1940. Dietmar is a billionaire from Germany and specializes in software.
In 1972, he co-founded the company SAP AG, alongside other employees from IBM. His partners were Claus Wellenreuther, Hans Werner Hector, Hasso Plattner and Klaus Tschira.
From 1988 to 1998, Dietmar Hopp was the Chief Executive Officer of SAP AG. Then from 1998 up until 2003, he was chairman of SAP AG’s supervisory board. From 2003 to 2005, Hopp was a member of the board.
Hopp is worth $11.2 billion, and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
In 2006, Hopp donated 70% of his wealth, to a charitable foundation, Dietmar-Hopp-Stiftung, creating one of the largest foundations in Europe. The foundation supports sports, medicine, education and social programs.
96. Oliver Samwer
Business: Rocket Internet
Net Worth: $1.02 billion
Started: 2008
Oliver Samwer mini biography
Oliver Samwer was born 9 August 1972. Along with his two brothers, Alexander and Marc, successfully made their mark onto the list of billionaires back in 2015. Their company Rocket Internet, based in Berlin, went public in 2014.
Oliver is the company’s CEO and is known as the brains behind the company’s success. Rocket copies American technology companies for foreign markets.
97. Alexander Samwer
Business: Rocket Net
Net Worth: $1.02 billion
Started: 2008
Alexander Samwer mini biography
Alexander Samwer was born in 1975. Alongside his brothers Oliver and Marc, they co-founded Alando, which eBay bought in 1999. Then Jamba, which sold to VeriSign.
They later went onto forming the European Company ‘Founders Fund’, which they invested in several businesses including MyVideo, StudiVZ and many more.
Additionally, they founded Rocket Internet, and in 2008, invested into Facebook and now, he has a net worth of $1.02 billion.
98. Marc Samwer
Business: Rocket Internet
Net Worth: $1.02 billion
Started: 2008
Marc Samwer mini biography
Marc Samwer was born 3 December 1970. Along with his two brothers, Alexander and Oliver have made it onto the list of Billionaires. They achieved this when their company Rocket Internet, went public back in 2015.
Marc doesn’t engage with the business on a day-to-day basis. He leaves the company in his brother, Oliver’s capable hands.
He is worth $1.02 billion and considered as one of the richest people in the online business world.
99. Marc Lowell Andreessen
Business: Netscape
Net Worth: $1.38 billion
Started: 1994
Marc Andreessen mini biography
Marc Andreessen was born 9 July 1971 is an American investor, entrepreneur and software engineer. He has a net worth of $1.38 billion.
Andreessen is a co-founder of Ning, a platform for social media networking sites.
He remains on the board of directors of eBay, Facebook and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, amongst others.
A constant keynote guest speaker at Silicon Valley conferences, Andreessen was among only 6 inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame which was revealed at the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web in 1994.
Andreessen is a advocate of Bitcoin and crytocurrency. His venture capital firm Andressen Horowitz invested more than $227 million in bitcoin start-ups since July 2015
100. Orion Hindawi
Business: Tanium
Net Worth: $ 1 billion
Started: 2007
Orion Hindawi mini biography
Orion Hindawi was born in 1980 and is an American software entrepreneur with a net worth of $1 billion.
In 2007, both his father and he, started the Tanium, a cybersecurity company. Back in 2015, they managed to raise an astonishing $120 million in new financing. This valued the company at $3.5 billion, which meant they both became billionaires.
Orion and wife Jackie have joined the giving pledge, and say they feel privileged to be in the position to be able to give back and make the world a better place.
What Do You Think?
I’d love to hear what you think about the 101 Internet Entrepreneurs Rich List 2019.
Specifically, I’d like to know:
Who is your Internet Entrepreneurs inspiration?
Also, I plan on updating this every 6 months.
So let me know if there is anyone I’ve not featured or if you would like me to include the Rich list for under 25s, rich list for bloggers or Youtube rich list etc.
