Billionaire world is becoming increasingly wealthy. And technological developments have an important role in this regard.
Everything You Should Know. Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, once again listed as the richest man in the world with total assets of USD79.2 billion. Gates's wealth increased by 11.6 percent of his wealth last year.
Meanwhile, Oracle CEO, Larry Ellison is in the second position in the list of the richest technology experts with a net worth USD54.3 billion, followed by Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon with USD35.1 billion fortune and CEO and founder of Facebook, Marck Zuckerberg has a total wealth USD33.4 billion.
While Larry Page, one of the founders of Google are in fifth position with total assets of USD30.8 billion. Sergey Brin, who is also one of the founders of Google, do not be away from her with a total of USD30.2 billion.
Technology industry indeed has produced many rich people. And some of them are young. Mark Zuckerberg, for example, just 30 years old. While Evan Spiegel, one of the founders Snapchat, who was aged 24 years, this year made it into the Forbes list with a total wealth of USD 1.5 billion. While Travis Kalanick, one of the founders of the Uber service, which is only 38 years old, now has a total of USD5.3 billion fortune. And his partner, Garrett Camp, who was aged 36 years, also has the same total wealth.
While the total wealth of the most drastic increase is Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba. This year, he managed to double the total wealth of up to USD22.1 billion.