The most richest information technology companies owners-Wealthiest individuals in the technology industry worldwide !
Number 1 of this top tier list is of course Bill Gates,this man at the age of 65 has a net worth of $84.5B,he have this kind of money because he created a company with the name of Microsoft.
Microsoft Corp. is an American company, the largest software manufacturer in the world, with over 90,000 employees in more than 100 countries. The company name is often abbreviated "MS". It is based in Redmond, Washington, USA. It is a company that develops, manufactures, licenses and maintains a wide range of services, mainly related to computers. Founded on April 4, 1975, Microsoft initially set out to develop and sell the BASIC interpreter for the Altair 8800 computer. O-Data, with which, however, they did not have the expected success. The general manager is currently Steve Ballmer. Over the years, Microsoft became larger and larger: in the mid-1980s it dominated the market with the MS-DOS operating system, which was then followed by Windows.
Number 2 of this list is Jeff Bezos,at the age of 57 he has a total networth of $81.7B,the money he accumulated is the result of his company,this company is knows by everyone,the name of the company is Amazon.
Amazon.com is an American e-commerce company based in Seattle, Washington, with a turnover of over $ 232.877 billion in 2018. It is the largest online retail company. Jeff Bezos is the founder of Amazon.com (1994), which was launched online in 1995. It started with the online sale of books and continued with VHS products, DVDs, music CDs, computer programs, electronics, clothing, furniture, toys, etc. He has created separate websites in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, China and Japan
Number 3 is Mark Zuckerberg,he is one of the youngest billioners in the whole world,with a networh of $69.6B,he created facebook,one of the top social media platform.
Facebook is a social networking site on the Internet, created by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004 to provide the opportunity to contact close people, but also people still unknown. At the moment, Facebook is one of the most widespread social networks in the world. Users can access this network from anywhere where there is a password-based Internet access, initially set up by completing the registration form with a series of personal questions. Currently (November 2015) the Facebook site has about 1.44 mild. members worldwide. Appreciated to be the second world social site after google.com, taken by the number of visits, Facebook is part of the recent phenomenon called Web 2.0.
Number 4 is Larry Ellison,at the age of 76 he has a networh of $59.3B because of his company named Oracle.
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer company based in Redwood City, Silicon Valley, California, United States. The company specializes in the design and marketing of hardware components and software solutions for other companies and organizations. In terms of revenue, Oracle ranks 3rd in the top software companies globally, after Microsoft and IBM. The company had revenue of $ 47.65 billion in 2011 and revenue of $ 26.17 billion from software sales.
On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced the acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
Number 5 is Larry Page,Larry page is one of the creators of google we know today,him and Sergey Brin,created google and know,both of them have a networth of $43.9B and $42.7B.
Google LLC is a US multinational corporation that operates the Internet search engine of the same name. It was founded in 1998 by two Stanford PhD students, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google provides a quick and easy way to find information on the web, with a database of over 8 billion websites. At the beginning of 2004, Google responded to more than 200 million daily queries.
The company started with a $ 100,000 investment from one of Sun Microsystems co-founders, Andy Bechtolsheim, who believes that an Internet search engine can revolutionize the world.
The name “Google” is a pun on googol, an English neologism circulated by the American Milton Sirotta in 1938, by which he designated the very large number, consisting of a 1 followed by 100 zeros (10100).
Google also has search engines for images, books, blogs, newsgroups, documents, quizzes, and web directories. It also contains fun “easter eggs” games that can be found by searching for “google hacks”.
Informations from forbes.com and also from wikipedia.org.
