Forbes magazine has published the first in its history rating of the 100 richest IT businessmen in the world... Six of the participants on the list inherited business related to information technology, and 94 out of 100 rich people created and developed their empire themselves. The IT billionaires include seven women, the richest of whom is Lorin Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs. Yuri Milner was the only representative of Russia ($ 3.3 billion and 62nd place).
When compiling the ranking, Forbes took into account the stock prices at the close of trading on Friday, July 31, 2015.
Introducing the top 10 richest tech tycoons in the world.
10. Michael Dell
Chairman and CEO of Dell Corporation. Forbes estimated his fortune at $ 19.4 billion.
9. Lauren Powell Jobs
The 51-year-old billionaire's wealth ($ 21.4 billion according to Forbes) comes from Apple and Disney. She is the founder and chairman of the Emerson Collective, which leverages business opportunities to advance social reform and help underprivileged students.
8. Steve Ballmer
This is the world's first millionaire, whose fortune appeared thanks to the options received from the employer - software giant Microsoft. At the same time, Ballmer is neither its founder, nor a relative of the founder. He is known not only for his fantastic wealth ($ 22.7 billion), but also for his eccentric, temperamental performances.
7. Jack Ma
This $ 23.2 billion Chinese billionaire founded the Alibaba Group. It is known to Russian consumers by its affiliated online trading platform AliExpress, on which millions of goods from China are presented.
6.Sergey Brin
Google's co-founder and director of Special Projects has an impressive $ 32.8 billion in net worth. Google's unprecedented gains began in July 2015, after new CFO Ruth Porat pledged to curb spending on difficult and long-term projects and amid news of YouTube's growing popularity.
5. Larry Page
Top 5 richest IT businessmen in the world are opened by a friend of Sergey Brin and his business partner. Their brainchild, Google, made Page $ 33.4 billion.
4. Mark Zuckerberg
The 31-year-old co-founder and CEO of Facebook has a net worth of $ 41.2 billion. In June 2015, his social networking site had 149 billion monthly users. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan give part of their income to philanthropic purposes. The couple donated $ 100 million to a trauma center at San Francisco Public Hospital and to develop ways to combat the Ebola virus.
3. Jeff Bezos
This 51-year-old American has a net worth of $ 47.8 billion, and 90% of it comes from 18% of Amazon stock. Bezos's fortune has grown by $ 13 billion since the beginning of 2015. In the Forbes billionaire ranking, which was published in early March, he was "worth" $ 34.8 billion. As Amazon's CEO, Bezos continues to make bold bets on new technologies such as drone delivery of orders.
2. Larry Ellison
Founder of Oracle, one of the top 3 software vendors with the highest income. Ellison's fortune is $ 50 billion.His name has long flashed in Forbes, it first appeared in the magazine in 1986, then Ellison's capital was $ 185 million.
1. Bill Gates
The richest man in the world took first place in the ranking of the richest IT businessmen in 2015. His capital is $ 79.6 billion. Gates, who left Microsoft in 2014 to focus on philanthropy, continues to sell shares in the firm he founded with Paul Allen 40 years ago. Under his leadership, Microsoft has become a leader in software manufacturing.