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Every year, renowned magazines such as Forbes and Businessinsider publish the list of the most influential people in the world and, correspondingly, the list of the super-rich high-tech geniuses. These are, in most cases, innovators in the industry and CEOs of the largest and world-renowned high-tech companies who set the tone in advanced technologies. To create the ranking, more than 100 of the most influential people worth millions in the high-tech industry were considered and evaluated according to specific criteria in four main areas. These are economic power, leadership, timeliness and impact. In this article, we introduce you to “The Big Five”, the 5 super-rich high-tech geniuses and two other favorites from this industry that the whole world knows and admires. We also explain what their we alth is based on. Curious to know who's on this list?
Bill Gates tops the list of the world's super-rich high-tech geniuses.
- The five super rich high-tech geniuses of the world
Bill Gates -$96.4 billion
1975 Bill Gates, now 62 years old, founded Microsoft together with his childhood friend Paul Allen. From this he built an iconic software company and is currently the richest man in the world with a net worth of $96.4 billion.
He has since donated a large portion of that ($65 billion) to charity, making him one of the world's largest philanthropists. Although he still sits on the board of the Microsoft company, he is no longer actively involved there.
The richest man in the world looks more than modest in everyday life.
Instead, Gates is fixated on donating his we alth. Together with his wife Melinda, he founded and continues to develop one of the most powerful charities in the world. The "Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation" was founded in 2000 and today continuously helps to fight difficult-to-cure diseases such as HIV, malaria and many others Infectious diseases, especially in developing countries. They also support agricultural development initiatives, emergency relief, global libraries, and fight against urban poverty and for universal education. Bill Gates' idea is to use it to encourage more billionaires to do charities. In the meantime he has found many followers.
Jeff Bezos has turned Amazon into a superpower in online retail.
- Jeff Bezos - $81.7 billion
Amazon.com is an undeniable superpower in e-commerce and the company's founder, Jeff Bezos, is best known for his e-commerce ideas. Every year the company makes bigger and bigger sales and profits, even exceeding analysts' expectations. Amazon's stock skyrocketed, making founder and CEO Jeff Bezos richer and richer. Despite negative media reports, Bezos claims the company continues to thrive.
Now, Bezos is leading the growth of Amazon Web Services, the company's cloud computing arm, announced a plan for high-speed parcel delivery using drones, and opened Amazon's first brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle.
Bezos' privately held space company Blue Origin was founded in 2000 and has already successfully launched its first spacecraft. We can expect more interesting news from Jeff Bezos in the years to come.
Jeff Bezos still has many new and innovative ideas that he also wants to implement.
Facebook is currently the largest social network in the world.
- Mark Zuckerberg- $61.7 billion
The youngest among high-tech geniuses, Mark Zuckerberg (34 years old) is the founder of the world's largest social network. He had a difficult but successful year. Facebook has been criticized for spreading "fake news". Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that his website has 1 billion users in a single day and 8 billion daily video views. The company's stock is up around 40%. As a result, Mark Zuckerberg's net worth also surged.
Mark Zuckerberg is a real high-tech genius.
The Facebook founder continues to invest hundreds of millions of his personal we alth into education. In 2010, together with his wife Priscilla, he founded a non-profit organization to improve school education and a company that promotes personalized education.
Another of the two high-tech geniuses and founders of Google - Larry Page.
For Sergey Brin, his friendship with Larry Page is particularly important.
- High-tech geniuses Larry Page and Sergey Brin have $51.5 billion and $50.2 billion, respectively
Larry Page and Sergey Brin are both co-founders of Google. They met at Stanford, where both were doing PhDs. Three years after studying there, Google was born and developed into the largest search engine in the world. It brings its founders billions of dollars in sales. Two years ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced a massive restructuring of Google. This created a new holding company called Alphabet, with Brin as President and Page as CEO. All of Google's other businesses, like Nest and Google X, are also now separate companies under the Alphabet umbrella. Around 100,000 employees work there. The technology group achieved sales of 110 billion US dollars in 2022.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin developed Google into the largest search engine in the world.
- Our two favorites among the world's high-tech geniuses
The famous innovators and at the same time the super-rich high-tech geniuses of the world also easily include Jack Ma, the founder and CEO of Alibaba and Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. They score with their innovative thinking and unique entrepreneurial spirit.
From former English teacher to super-rich high-tech giant.
Jack Ma - $37.3 billion
Former English teacher Jack Ma is now the second tallest man in China. The Alibaba founder and CEO started his first company, China Pages, in 1995 with the help of loans and personal savings from his parents. In 1999, Ma founded what is now a highly successful e-commerce site, Alibaba, with a seed capital of $60,000. Today, according to Forbes, he's worth $37.3 billion. He's not worried at all, as Alibaba remains dominant in one of the world's largest markets and is expected to grow stronger. Jack Ma announced on his 54th birthday in September 2022 that he intends to retire from online trading and continue to engage in educational issues.
Philanthropist and high-tech genius rolled into one!
Elon Musk - $21.3 billion
The man who believes there is "no business, only pursuit of a goal" has invested in, founded or operated 18 companies to date, including two of America's most innovative technology companies: Tesla Motors and SpaceX. He works to improve traffic on earth and in space. Musk has a growing fortune that allows him to experiment with technologies of the future. Three years ago, he announced via Twitter that he would build a five-mile Hyperloop test track for students and companies to test their ideas for the high-speed transportation system. He also donated over $10 million to Future of Life, an institution dedicated to keeping artificial intelligence safe and useful for humans.
Elon Musk has many interests - from future transportation to artificial intelligence.
Jack Ma is the richest man in China.
There is a lot of work behind the success of the high-tech geniuses.
