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The Billionaires of IT

Four out of Five richest men in the planet earned it through IT. In total, based on the reports of Forbes Magazine, there are 34 billionaires who made it through information technology.

1. Bill Gates, Microsoft, $51 billion
3. Paul Allen, Microsoft, $22.5 billion
4. Michael Dell, Dell computers , $18 billion
5. Larry Ellison, Oracle, $17 billion
11. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, $14 billion
16. Sergey Brin, Google, $11 billion
16. Larry Page , Google, $11 billion
42. Jeff Bezos, Amazon, $4.8 billion
44. Gordon Moore, Intel, $4.6 billion
51. James Goodnight, SAS Institute, $ 4.1 billion
52. Eric Schmidt, Google, $4 billion
67. Steve Jobs, Apple / Pixar, $3.3 billion
73. David Filo, Yahoo, $ 3 billion
93. Jerry Yang, Yahoo, $2.5 billion
125. Craig McCaw, McCaw Cellular, $2.1 billion
133. Henry Nicolas III, Broadcom, $2 billion
133. John Sall, SAS, $2 billion
164. Henry Samueli, Broadcom, $1.8 billion
181. Irwin Jacobs, Qualcomm, $1.7 billion
198. Ming Hsieh, Cogent Systems, $1.6 billion
198. Walter Scott, telecom, $1.6 billion
235. Min Kao, navigation equipments, $1.4 billion
258. Richard Egan, EMC, $1.3 billion
258. James Kim, microchips, $1.3 billion
258. Ram Shriram, Google, $1.3 billion
258. Tom Siebel, Siebel Systems, $1.3 billion
258. Ted Waitt, Gateway, $1.3 billion
283. John Morgridge, cisco, $1.2 billion
320. ScottCook, intuit, $1.1 billion
320. David Duffield, PeopleSoft , $1.1 billion
320. Robert Galvin, Motorola, $1.1 billion
346. William Morean, Jabil Circuit, $1 billion
346. Charles Simonyi, Microsoft, $1 billion
346. Todd Wagner, Broadcast.com, $1 billion

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