30 Richest Internet Entrepreneurs
Posted on 27. Mar, 2009 by Michael in Make Money
Hey Guys,
How many of you recon its possible to create a website and then less then 10 years later be worth billions? Well it is and todays top list is to show of those who have achieved this. The great thing about the Internet is how in such a short amount of time you can be worth so much money and all done weiring your boxer shorts, on a laptop in your bedroom!
It all starts right here, if you want to earn a living from the Internet and have your piece of the pie then check out my FREE eCourse about Making Money Online, remember to take action straight away and if you have any problems or need some help, check out the forums!
Top Internet Entrepreneurs
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Name
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Website
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Year Website Launched
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Net Worth
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1
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Larry Page
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1998
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$18.5 Billion
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2
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Sergey Brin
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1998
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$18.5 Billion
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3
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Jeff Bezos
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Amazon |
1994
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$8.7 Billlion
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4
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Pierre Omidyar
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eBay |
1995
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$6.3 Billion
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5
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Eric Schmidt
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1998
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$5.9 Billion
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6
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Ronald Burkle
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Yahoo |
1995
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$3.5 Billion
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7
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Mark Cuban
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Broadcast.com |
1995
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$2.6 Billion
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8
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Jerry Yang
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Yahoo |
1995
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$2.3 Billion
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9
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Omid Kordestani
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1998
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$1.9 Billion
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10
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David Filo
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Yahoo |
1995
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$1.7 Billion
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11
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Kavitark Ram Shriram
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1998
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$1.7 Billion
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12
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Todd Wagner
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Broadcast.com |
1995
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$1.5 Billion
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13
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Peter Thiel
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PayPal |
1998
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$1.3 Billion
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14
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Niklas Zennstrom
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Skype |
2003
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$1.3 Billion
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15
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Janus Friis
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Skype |
2003
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$1.3 Billion
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16
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Jack Ma
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Alibaba |
1999
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$1.1 Billion
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17
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Mark Zuckerberg
 |
2004
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$700 Million
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18
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Simon Nixon
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MoneySuperMarket | 1999 | $680 Million |
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19
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Andrew Gower
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Runescape |
2001
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$650 Million
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20
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Reid Hoffman
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2003
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$500 Million
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21
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Zhang Chaoyang
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Sohu |
1996
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$425 Million
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22
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Steve Chen
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YouTube |
2005
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$350 Million
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23
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Elon Musk
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PayPal |
1998
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$328 Million
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24
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Chad Hurley
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YouTube |
2005
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$300 Million
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25
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Duncan Cameron
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MoneySuperMarket | 1999 | $280 Million |
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26
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Marc Andreesen
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Netscape |
1994
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$253 Million
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27
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Reed Hastings
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NetFlix |
1997
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$150 Million
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28
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Blake Ross
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Mozila | 1998 | $120 Million |
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29
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Andrew Michael
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Fasthost |
1999
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$110 Million
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30
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Max Levchin
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PayPal |
1998
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$100 Million
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To our success in 2009,
Michael Dunlop
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Scott :: IrnMedia.net
27. Mar, 2009
Wow, those guys are rich…
I want a slice of that cake too…
Keep the good lists coming
Michael
27. Mar, 2009
Thanks Scott
We got a few great ones to come, got some awesome Interviews as well 
Jay
27. Mar, 2009
ohh man thats a lot…
All the best to the rest of us!
Nice list – keep it up!
Tanya
27. Mar, 2009
Hmmm… no women there???
Stuart Wooster
27. Mar, 2009
I’m sure there is room up there for you if you work on it
Typhoon
27. Mar, 2009
Yeah, I m too surprised that Men have dominated the top 30 list.
http://www.smartbloggerz.com
Don
27. Mar, 2009
Tanya
Be the first!
Someone has to be.
Andrew
04. Apr, 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caterina_Fake is probably worth a pretty penny.
Andy
27. Mar, 2009
Awesome, how good would it be to have a site thats as popular as those guys!
Ross
27. Mar, 2009
Great List, interesting to see how much that can be made in just one decade!
Danny Cooper
27. Mar, 2009
Doesn’t Eric Schmidt just work for Google?
Stuart Wooster
27. Mar, 2009
Do you think Pierre Omidyar bought that penguin off eBay? LoL!
More lists please Michael! Great stuff for filling in my breaks
Michael
27. Mar, 2009
Haha.. yeh
If he didn’t then he should sell it on eBay at least 
Plenty more to come Stuart!
Stuart Wooster
27. Mar, 2009
Nice to see the comments building up here, who else is on the eCourse?
If so, have you checked out the forum yet? If not check your mail and register. It will be nice to get to know one another for sure!
Scottie332
27. Mar, 2009
Very nice list! Give it a few years and you will have to put me on that list Michael! lol
Keep up the great work.
Ryan
27. Mar, 2009
Any idea why Steve Chen is worth more than Chad Hurley?? I thought they were 50/50 :-S
Haris
27. Mar, 2009
Aah, the richie rich guys!
I hope to make it to that list someday!
Ross
27. Mar, 2009
Sure won’t see any bloggers up there talking about getting rich. It’s all good apps that went big. Just my 2 cents.
Josiah Jost | Siah Design
27. Mar, 2009
Another awesome list. I wonder how long it will take the twitter dudes to make it on this.
Michael
27. Mar, 2009
No more than a year
Stuart Wooster
27. Mar, 2009
“Michael – No more than a year
”
They want to be doing better than just adding a sunscription for longer tweets then.
Michael
27. Mar, 2009
All it takes is for Ev to sell the site and he jumps straight up onto the list!
emerywebster
27. Mar, 2009
Favorite guy on here is Elon Musk
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20071201/entrepreneur-of-the-year-elon-musk.html
His little bro is no slouch either.
JWG
27. Mar, 2009
Billions is always good. Someday your gonna need to add my name to that list.
Michael
27. Mar, 2009
Will look forward to it
Chris
27. Mar, 2009
$110 million for the worlds worst domain registrar company. Thank you Andrew Michael.
Anyone who can log into the ukreg.com/fasthosts.com control panel, deserves a MEDAL!
garrett goldsmith
27. Mar, 2009
nice list. i love your inspirational lists. they give me that extra push at the end of the day. this list is interesting because it shows the diversity of the internet market.
Michael
27. Mar, 2009
Thanks Garrett, glad you enjoy my lists! I hope you are still rocking the ebay scene!?
NitinGarg
27. Mar, 2009
Wooah.. nice list.
Man, this inspires me to drop out college and start working and looking for funds for my own projects
Scott Weaver
27. Mar, 2009
Google has like half the list….
Andrew
27. Mar, 2009
These people have truly used the power of the Internet to build massive wealth. Thanks for the list. However, they definitely didn’t do it from a laptop at home, at least not to reach the heights they have.
Most of these companies have employees, a physical office(s), insurance coverage etc. While they are web based businesses they are not work from home type deals.
Do you want employees or do you want to be a one-man shop? I don’t think it’s possible to build 100’s of millions or a billion dollars worth of equity by working from home. You’re going to have to build a brick and mortar business that just happens to be online.
Cool blog theme. Thanks!
Michael
27. Mar, 2009
Hey Andrew,
Thanks for your comment, although now they are not at home with a laptop, for quite a lot of them, it started that way.
I was actually speaking to a really huge name recently, he told me how he lived under his computer desk at home working all our tills he made it.
It all starts right here guys.
Michael
Temiyemi
27. Mar, 2009
It’s amazing! First, these ideas turned into services – not just websites – that the whole world have come to love and accept as part of everyday life both offline and online… and then, they further turned into mass of wealth for the brains that generated and implemented them! That’s the best route to getting rich that I adore and embrace!
Shane Hudson
27. Mar, 2009
My name will be there soon to! Just I find a project that will make money, Success Circuit was not made for that purpose.
Jon
27. Mar, 2009
I bet Obama is drooling thinking about the taxes he can generate from them.
Shreejana Hickman
27. Mar, 2009
Thanks for the list. We all need to see a list like this from time to time, to remind us it is possible to achieve our goals!
Nikhil Garg
27. Mar, 2009
Great List.
I was not aware that Amazon is on 3rd Ranking….
Play Games Win Prizes
27. Mar, 2009
With all the things you are pulling now, Michael, I do NOT doubt it at all that you would be on this list in the future
-Mike
Simone Brummelhuis
27. Mar, 2009
Hope that with support from The Next Women, women may be encouraged to go for the big internet companies as well.
There are some, see our deal list of exits by women:
http://thenextwomen.com/2008/09/02/women-exits-through-ma-ipo-or-otherwise/
Michael
27. Mar, 2009
Great list Simone, will definitly use it for future inspiration.
Renegade Conservatory Guy
27. Mar, 2009
Yeah, they might be rich, but they’re an ugly looking lot!
Devo’s Dad.
Michael
27. Mar, 2009
Lol… Alright Matthew, Dean and Martin I over, mentioned you checked the blog out.
Hope all is going well with HEAL and your blog.
Alex | Blogussion.com
27. Mar, 2009
Weird, I would have thought Mozilla would be worth more (not saying $120 mil isn’t a lot). By the way, you missed an extra “l” in “Mozilla”.
web designmanchester
27. Mar, 2009
amazing list, it’s kinda scary how the net has proved to be a gateway for some massive success stories.
Ayn
27. Mar, 2009
Obama must hate that list but good for you for posting it!
Sophie Marston
27. Mar, 2009
Inspirational List
David King
27. Mar, 2009
Only person you forgot on the list was me!
lol… like the list! keep up the great posts!
Jo
27. Mar, 2009
And hopefully a they will be giving some of their money away
Marty McFlyy
28. Mar, 2009
You can tell every one of them got beat up in high school. Be nice to the nerds people!!! The Geek Shall Inherit the Earth…
Michael
28. Mar, 2009
Like Bill Gates Said: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.
Alex Brooks
28. Mar, 2009
It’s interesting that some of the websites earn more then the older websites, just proves to show the service/content doesn’t mean everything, but as you can all see, aged websites usually earn a lot more then younger websites, but you hardly ever see anyone earning a load of money when their website is only 1-2 years old.
Oyelaja Oyekan
28. Mar, 2009
I run Cybernator Solutions (www.cybernatorsolutions.com) and I come here daily to get inspiration from what Michael says. Great list dude. Only wish to make it one day
Hans Draeken
28. Mar, 2009
Great list, Michael..Like to be on that list as well some day. I am with the Reverse Funnel System, one of the best in Home-Based-Business as per Opportunity World Magazine Winter 2009.
Check it out (www.HansDraeken.com) and join me.
Renelda
29. Mar, 2009
we need more women on this list. I hope Rachna from India will creep up among the ranking. Who knows, maybe I will be on that list.
Mile A Minute
30. Mar, 2009
I was nice to the nerds and even saved a few from head trauma none of them have hired me yet. LOL But never the less the list is as everyone has stated inspirational. Where is my boss the nerd wait I am my boss I need to turn on my nerd appeal and pay myself.. Inna minute Mile A Minute everybody get back to work..
Harish
30. Mar, 2009
Larry Page rocks ! the top two richest entrepreneurs are from google ! :> huh amazing…Great list Michael
Amulekone
30. Mar, 2009
Amazing list you have here. What did these guys know that we don’t? It is surely inspiring.
thanks for the info
Dreamer
30. Mar, 2009
Nice list
Hope to make it one day myself, and looking forward to seeing some women on it too someday
Jason Leavitt
30. Mar, 2009
Like all the other “lists” on this site, this list is pathetically incomplete.
What about Jeffrey Citron? He started Datek (sold to Ameritrade) and Vonage.
What about the guy who started Ameritrade? He just bought the Cubs for $1 billion.
What about the guy who started hotmail.com? He sold to Microsoft for $400 million.
Or the guy who started clearstation.com? (sold to e-trade for $200 million).
The list goes on and on. There are so many others that the author of this site doesn’t know about, that Max Levchin might not even be in the top 100.
Muzi Mohale
31. Mar, 2009
Andrew, just to add on Michael’s point, working from home is not a sin. If my memory serves to correct Matt, who owns wordpress, has all along been operating from home…”As CEO Toni Schneider explained at a recent Startup2Startup event, Automattic has no central office and all its employees work remotely from home, only to meet up a couple times per year as a company.”
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/15/wordpress-acquires-irish-startup-polldaddy/
Lance
01. Sep, 2009
Didn’t Amazon start in a garage? Thought I read that somewhere ages ago.
mvs
01. Apr, 2009
Google seems to dominate the top list!
Nikolai
02. Apr, 2009
Wow, pretty interesting that quite a few people on this list come from the same company. These people sure are rich!
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Rick Kats
04. Apr, 2009
Okay I’m jelous, now I just have to work my ass off online and join that list!
Polymer Business
05. Apr, 2009
go google, thank God the invented google, love google so much !
Derek
13. Apr, 2009
I think you left out Mark Zukerberg, founder of facebook.
Hillbilly
15. Apr, 2009
Hey Micheal,
I have been really enjoying these lists you have been putting together. How do you find this info?
You know what I think is interesting about this list? The Big Name ‘Guru’s’ most of us have heard about in the Internet Marketing world are not on this list,……So the richest Internet Marketers are not “in the spot light” is kinda what I am seeing. What do you think?
Cheers All, lets see how many of us can get onto a list like this!!
Jeromy (AKA Hillbilly)
Victoria
21. Apr, 2009
These guys are great. I think their secret is persistence and a great focus
I am heading there one day
http://www.etopedia.com
Millionaire Acts
24. Apr, 2009
Wow! Your site has been into the authority of posting articles about lists… Great! Keep it up!
Srini Centhala
04. May, 2009
Wow.. Great!
We also will be in this list soon..
If we have good support of people..
Thanks,
Srini Centhala,
http://www.absolut-e.com
TiffanySouthall
08. May, 2009
great list
Linda
14. May, 2009
I am loving all of the info on this website- very inspirational for me- I only hope that one day my name will appear on that list…..anything is possible if you see it through!
sam
16. May, 2009
Nice list Mike.
what do you know about Google Cash? Can you please set up an interview for Google guys to tell us about this product.
John Hudome
17. May, 2009
I want to be on the list. Nice seeing you at Continuity Summit. http://Johnhudome.com/
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Mark Lewis
12. Jun, 2009
I’ll take even a small fraction of thier pies! Till then it’s jalook.com !
TopGDIPro
04. Jul, 2009
These entrepreneurs are forward thinkers committed to what they started.
The latest site is over 4 years old. Let it be a lesson. Think. Commit. Forward. No instant lottery tickets.
TopGDIPRo
Bronson
04. Jul, 2009
Fantastic resource list and very informative. I’m going to see if I can find these guys on Twitter – I’m sure they have some interesting tweets.
agmenta
05. Jul, 2009
I hope all of them have as well a happy life and a rich and peaceful interior life. They derserve it. Thay have changed the world.
LILO MAGAZINE
08. Jul, 2009
Wow I want to enter that list! Who wanna join me?
Bruceongames
18. Aug, 2009
Andrew Gower has given a rare interview where he explains his early business days and gives advice for anyone wanting to do the same: http://www.bruceongames.com/2009/08/18/exclusive-andrew-gower-interview/
mann
19. Aug, 2009
hahaha only men.. how do u feel
Gary
20. Aug, 2009
Hey, Michael… Can you mention what is resources of income from those people? For example, from advertising, etc. It would be more awesome if you add this on your list.
Thanks,
Gary
David Leonhardt
22. Sep, 2009
…and don’t we all want to see our names on that list.
Brendan
23. Sep, 2009
Everyone knows that some people are making millions on the internet. The problem is just that most people have no idea how. I’m a freaking motorcycle mechanic, and finding out how to make my living online changed my life. Now I get to stay at home with my wife and son. Someday I’ll be up there with the guys on this list.
Malosky.com
08. Oct, 2009
i like the great things you guys have done to our dear generation.Remember to encourage us as well to contribute our own quater.thanks so much.i love you all.
Kumar
26. Oct, 2009
it misses Chahal from the list.This guy sold 1 company for 40 million at age of 18 and another for 300 million at age of 25 to yahoo. his site is chahal.com.Please ad him in the list.
Jacquie Ross
07. Dec, 2009
Thanks for sharing. However, it’s disappointing not to see any women on the list.
Along
29. Dec, 2009
Awesome person…
peace
enhance your dreams…