30 Richest Tech Billionaires 2024
How many of you reckon it’s possible to create a company that will be worth billions less than ten years later? Well, it is possible, and in today’s top list, I’ll show you some wealthy tech billionaires who have achieved it.
These individuals have not only revolutionized the way we live and work but have also amassed incredible wealth in the process. Understanding the strategies and principles that have led to their success can provide valuable insights for aspiring entrepreneurs and business leaders. In this article, we will explore the journeys of the richest tech billionaires and the key lessons that can be gleaned from their experiences. By delving into their stories, we can uncover the traits and strategies that have propelled them to the summit of the tech world, offering inspiration and guidance for those seeking to make their mark in the industry.
I hope you enjoy today’s post:
The Tech Billionaires with the highest net worths
1 Jeff Bezos 
Amazon 1994 $205 Billion
2 Mark Zuckerberg 
Facebook 2004 $165 Billion
3 Larry Ellison 
Oracle 1977 $147 Billion
4 Larry Page 
Google 1998 $140 Billion
5 Sergey Brin 
Google 1998 $133 Billion
6 Ma Huateng 
Tencent 1998 $37.8 Billion
7 Ding Lei 
NetEase 1997 $30.6 Billion
8 Masayoshi Son 
SoftBank 1981 $27.4 Billion
9 Ma Yun 
Alibaba 1999 $24.7 Billion
10 Dustin Moskovitz 
Facebook 2004 $22.7 Billion
11 Azim Premji 
Wipro 1945 $18.30 Billion
12 Andy Bechtolsheim 
Google 1998 $14.7 Billion
13 Robin Li 
Baidu 2000 $14.30 Billion
14 Stephen Cohen 
Point72 Asset Management 1992 $13.00 Billion
15 Hasso Plattner 
SAP SE 1976 $11.5 Billion
16 Shiv Nadar 
HCL 1976 $12.70 Billion
17 Liu Qiangdong 
JD.com 1998 $10.70 Billion
18 Jan Koum 
WhatsApp 2009 $9.70 Billion
19 James Goodnight 
SAS Institute 1976 $8.80 Billion
20 Pierre Omidyar 
Ebay 1995 $8.80 Billion
21 Eduardo Saverin 
Facebook 2004 $8.70 Billion
22 David Duffield 
PeopleSoft $7.40 Billion
23 Zhang Zhidong 
Tencent 1998 $7.00 Billion
24 Garrett Camp 
Uber 2009 $6.90 Billion
25 Brian Acton 
WhatsApp 2009 $6.50 Billion
26 Kwon Hyuk-Bin 
SmilegateSmilegate 2002 $6.30 Billion
27 Travis Kalanick 
Uber 2009 $6.30 Billion
28 Hiroshi Mikitani 
Rakuten 1997 $6.10 Billion
29 Ralph Dommermuth 
1&1 Internet 1988 $5.50 Billion
30 Gabe Newell 
Valve 1996 $5.50 Billion
Working out how much each tech billionaire is worth
To work out the net worth of the 30 richest technology billionaires, we started our research by combing through Forbes and Bloomberg’s list of billionaires. These lists provide us with the estimated net worth of each individual based on various factors such as their company’s revenue, stock prices, and other assets. However, it’s important to remember that net worths change daily because most net worths are based on share prices, which fluctuate daily.
We can also gather information about their net worth by reading interviews and news articles where they share their investments, ownership stakes, and other financial information. Combining all of this data gives us a relatively accurate estimate of their current net worth.
How To Become a Tech Billionaire
When venturing into the tech industry, it’s crucial to focus on solving real-world problems with your tech solutions, as successful tech billionaires have often identified pressing needs and created products or services to address them. Additionally, surrounding yourself with a talented and diverse team is essential for success in the tech industry, as building a strong team with a wide range of skills and perspectives is crucial for innovation and growth.
Here are the five biggest business lessons from the tech billionaires above:
Focus on solving real-world problems with your tech solutions. Successful tech billionaires have often identified a pressing need and developed a product or service to address it.
Surround yourself with a talented and diverse team. Building a strong team with a wide range of skills and perspectives is crucial for success in the tech industry.
Embrace innovation and continuous learning. The tech industry evolves constantly, so it’s important to stay ahead of the curve by continuously learning and investing in new technologies and trends.
Be resilient and prepared for failure. Many tech billionaires face numerous setbacks and failures before achieving success, so it’s important to be resilient and learn from any setbacks along the way.
Lastly, focus on scalability and global impact. To become a tech billionaire, your tech solution should have the potential for massive scalability and global impact, reaching a wide audience and making a significant difference in the world.
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Wow, those guys are rich…
I want a slice of that cake too…
Keep the good lists coming 🙂
ohh man thats a lot…
All the best to the rest of us!
Nice list – keep it up!
Hmmm… no women there???
I’m sure there is room up there for you if you work on it 🙂
Tanya
Be the first!
Someone has to be.
Awesome, how good would it be to have a site thats as popular as those guys!
Great List, interesting to see how much that can be made in just one decade!
Doesn’t Eric Schmidt just work for Google?
Do you think Pierre Omidyar bought that penguin off eBay? LoL!
More lists please Michael! Great stuff for filling in my breaks 🙂
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! 🙂
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.
Any idea why Steve Chen is worth more than Chad Hurley?? I thought they were 50/50 :-S
Aah, the richie rich guys! 😀
I hope to make it to that list someday! 😀
Sure won’t see any bloggers up there talking about getting rich. It’s all good apps that went big. Just my 2 cents.
Another awesome list. I wonder how long it will take the twitter dudes to make it on this. 😀
“Michael – No more than a year :)”
They want to be doing better than just adding a sunscription for longer tweets then.
Billions is always good. Someday your gonna need to add my name to that list. 😛
$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!
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.
Wooah.. nice list.
Man, this inspires me to drop out college and start working and looking for funds for my own projects 😀
Google has like half the list….
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!
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!
My name will be there soon to! Just I find a project that will make money, Success Circuit was not made for that purpose.
I bet Obama is drooling thinking about the taxes he can generate from them.
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!
Great List.
I was not aware that Amazon is on 3rd Ranking….
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
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:
Yeah, they might be rich, but they’re an ugly looking lot!
Devo’s Dad.
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”. 😉
amazing list, it’s kinda scary how the net has proved to be a gateway for some massive success stories.
Obama must hate that list but good for you for posting it!
Inspirational List
Only person you forgot on the list was me! 🙂
lol… like the list! keep up the great posts! 🙂
And hopefully a they will be giving some of their money away 🙂
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…
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.
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
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.
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.
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..
Larry Page rocks ! the top two richest entrepreneurs are from google ! :> huh amazing…Great list Michael 🙂
Amazing list you have here. What did these guys know that we don’t? It is surely inspiring.
thanks for the info
Nice list 🙂
Hope to make it one day myself, and looking forward to seeing some women on it too someday
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.
Google seems to dominate the top list!
Wow, pretty interesting that quite a few people on this list come from the same company. These people sure are rich!
Okay I’m jelous, now I just have to work my ass off online and join that list!
go google, thank God the invented google, love google so much !
I think you left out Mark Zukerberg, founder of facebook.
Wow! Your site has been into the authority of posting articles about lists… Great! Keep it up!
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
great list
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!
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.
I’ll take even a small fraction of thier pies! Till then it’s jalook.com !
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
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.
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.
Wow I want to enter that list! Who wanna join me?
hahaha only men.. how do u feel
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
Didn’t Amazon start in a garage? Thought I read that somewhere ages ago.
…and don’t we all want to see our names on that list.
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.
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.
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.
Thanks for sharing. However, it’s disappointing not to see any women on the list.
Awesome person…
enhance your dreams… 🙂 peace
i think you guys could missed Bhavin Turakhia & Divyank Turakhia (www.directi.com). They’re the owners of the directi group of companies, which collectively are worth around $350mn.
That’s what’s officially put up on their company profiles and in the media.
Wow! Nice list. However I feel that you may have missed Indian entreprenuers who have also brought good business models on the web.
Michael,
Very nice work with the “30 Richest Internet Entrepreneurs” list! Yes, I do see you being on the list one of these days too.
I love the site!
Jeff Knize
P.S. I expect to be on the list right along side of you (-:
Elon Musk has impressed me most, I thought he would be higher though.
An interesting list, amazing how the google was created in a uni dorm, an now it’s owners are the richest Internet entrepreneurs…
Wow thats some serious cash all made from that crazy invention the internet. You have got to have the best list posts on the web. I even go back to them from time to time and they still amaze and inspire me, Thanks
Great List, and an inspiration to ALL of us, that this can be done.
This shows that Great Incomes ARE achievable online.
BUT, it takes work and time.
But then again, Which Business does not take work and time?
Wow. Inspiring list. Thanks for sharing.
Great list the Internet makes new millionaires daily. And you can do it all from the comfort of your own home in your pajamas. Gotta love the World Wide Web. I want my name on that list one day! Inspirational post, Thanks. Jay!
uh, wait a minute… you missed my site!? my mug shot and everything! j/k, oh, that’s right the 2015 numbers aren’t in yet …
great list!
What?! You’re not on that list? It must be a mistake! Hope to see you soon there! 🙂
Really impressive list and information, although I think that lastminute.com would be good to mention, (female too… 🙂
hey mike you should update your list Mark Zuckerburg is the youngest billionaire with more than $6 billion in networth.
wow, that’s a pretty hot list! Yeah mark shot up to 6.9 Bill which puts him at 35th place.
Neat list but I though I’d see the guy from Amazon somewhere in there.
The Alibaba and Broadcast.com guys surprised me as I’ve never heard of Broadcast.com and didn’t think Alibaba was that hot.
Hi Michael,
Great top 30 list of money makers online. I hope to see you on top of that list one day. Just keep up the good work by helping people and I know their is a reward waiting for you. It says in the Bible Galatians 6:7 ” What a man sow you will reap”.
Cheers!
Julius
This is really and interesting post which was informative and made understand these people are the rulers of online success 🙂
Wow inspiring me…
Thanks
Thank you very much for this great post. Do you think, that in 2013 its possible to build up something equal or is the field already taken ?