The 100 Richest Internet Billionaires 2026

Who are the richest internet billionaires in 2026? Elon Musk tops our list at $878.5 billion, followed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos ($366 billion) and Google co-founders Larry Page ($232.3 billion) and Sergey Brin ($213.9 billion). Mark Zuckerberg completes the top five on $208.6 billion.

This is IncomeDiary’s 2026 update of our rich list of the 100 wealthiest people whose fortunes came from the internet. Since our 2025 list, the biggest change is the arrival of artificial intelligence money: OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek and the companies that supply them have created a new wave of internet billionaires, while crypto fortunes have soared too.

All net worths are Forbes real-time estimates as of 3 November 2026. They move every day with share prices, so treat them as a snapshot.

Who Counts as an Internet Billionaire?

We include people whose wealth comes mainly from businesses that live online: search engines, social networks, e-commerce, online payments and fintech apps, online games, streaming, cloud software, crypto exchanges and AI labs. Early investors who made their fortunes backing internet companies, such as Peter Thiel and Yuri Milner, are in too.

Elon Musk is a judgement call. Most of his wealth today is Tesla and SpaceX, but he made his first fortune online with Zip2 and PayPal, owns X (formerly Twitter) and founded the AI company xAI. Some of the world’s richest tech names are deliberately left out because their fortunes came from computer hardware, chips or traditional software rather than the internet: Larry Ellison (Oracle), Jensen Huang (Nvidia), Michael Dell, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer (Microsoft).

The 10 Richest Internet Billionaires in 2026

1. Elon Musk: Zip2, PayPal (X.com), X, xAI, worth $878.5 billion

Age: 55 | Country: United States

Elon co-founded the online city-guide company Zip2, which Compaq bought for about $307 million in 1999. He then founded X.com, which merged with Confinity to become PayPal, and eBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion in 2002. He bought Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, renamed it X, and founded xAI, the maker of the Grok chatbot, in 2023. Most of his fortune today comes from Tesla and SpaceX, whose Starlink satellite network is now one of the world’s biggest internet providers.

2. Jeff Bezos: Amazon, worth $366 billion

Age: 62 | Country: United States

Jeff founded Amazon in 1994 as an online bookstore run from his garage. It grew into the world’s largest online retailer, and its Amazon Web Services arm is the biggest cloud computing business on the planet. He handed over as CEO in 2021 and is now executive chair. He also owns The Washington Post and the space company Blue Origin. See our 15 business lessons from Jeff Bezos.

3. Larry Page: Google, worth $232.3 billion

Age: 53 | Country: United States

Larry co-founded Google with Sergey Brin in 1998 while they were PhD students at Stanford. He ran Google, then its parent company Alphabet, until stepping down as CEO in 2019. He remains a board member and, with Brin, keeps voting control of Alphabet, whose soaring share price has made him the world’s third-richest person.

4. Sergey Brin: Google, worth $213.9 billion

Age: 53 | Country: United States

Sergey co-founded Google with Larry Page and served as president of Alphabet until 2019. After stepping back he returned to work at Google to help on its Gemini AI models. Like Page, his wealth has risen sharply as investors bet on Google’s AI future.

5. Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook / Meta, worth $208.6 billion

Age: 42 | Country: United States

Mark launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room in 2004. The company bought Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014, and renamed itself Meta in 2021. He owns about 13% of Meta but controls around 61% of the votes, so he can’t be outvoted. Read more in our guide to who owns Facebook.

6. Changpeng Zhao: Binance, worth $114.6 billion

Age: 49 | Country: Canada

Known as CZ, he founded Binance in 2017, and it became the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume. In 2023 he pleaded guilty to US anti-money-laundering violations, stepped down as CEO and served four months in prison in 2024. President Trump pardoned him in October 2025.

7. Giancarlo Devasini: Tether, Bitfinex, worth $89.3 billion

Age: 62 | Country: Italy

A former plastic surgeon from Italy, Giancarlo is the chief financial officer and largest shareholder of Tether, which issues USDT, the world’s biggest stablecoin. Tether earns billions a year in interest on the reserves backing its tokens, mostly US Treasury bills. He is also a key figure at the crypto exchange Bitfinex.

8. Zhang Yiming: ByteDance (TikTok), worth $84 billion

Age: 42 | Country: China

Zhang founded ByteDance in 2012. Its apps include the news app Toutiao, Douyin in China and TikTok everywhere else, one of the most downloaded apps in the world. He stepped down as CEO in 2021 but remains the largest shareholder. His fortune has roughly doubled since our 2025 list.

9. Liang Wenfeng: DeepSeek, High-Flyer, worth $46.3 billion

Age: 41 | Country: China

Liang co-founded the Chinese quant hedge fund High-Flyer and then the AI lab DeepSeek. In January 2025 DeepSeek’s R1 model matched leading US chatbots at a fraction of the cost, wiping nearly $600 billion off Nvidia’s market value in a single day. He is the newest entry in our top 10.

10. Ma Huateng: Tencent, worth $43.5 billion

Age: 55 | Country: China

Known as Pony Ma, he co-founded Tencent in 1998. Tencent runs WeChat and QQ, China’s dominant messaging apps, and is one of the world’s largest video game companies, with stakes in Riot Games and Epic Games.

The 100 Richest Internet Billionaires 2026: Full List

What’s Changed Since 2025

• AI has minted a new class of internet billionaires. Seven Anthropic co-founders, including Dario and Daniela Amodei, are each worth around $13 billion to $14 billion. OpenAI’s Greg Brockman ($25.5 billion), Surge AI’s Edwin Chen ($18 billion) and DeepSeek’s Liang Wenfeng ($46.3 billion) are all new to the list.
• Crypto is back in a big way. Binance’s Changpeng Zhao is sixth, and four people behind the stablecoin Tether are in our top 25.
• The giants got much richer. Jeff Bezos rose from $210 billion on our 2025 list to $366 billion, and Sergey Brin from $136.6 billion to $213.9 billion.
• Some familiar names have slipped. Snapchat’s Evan Spiegel fell from $4 billion to about $2.2 billion, and Rakuten’s Hiroshi Mikitani from $6.1 billion to about $3 billion, which pushes both out of the top 100.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is the richest internet billionaire?

Elon Musk, worth $878.5 billion as of 3 November 2026, if you count his PayPal, X and xAI roots. Counting only people whose wealth is mostly online, it’s Amazon founder Jeff Bezos at $366 billion.

Who is the richest woman on the list?

MacKenzie Scott, worth $27 billion, whose fortune comes from the Amazon shares she received in her 2019 divorce from Jeff Bezos. She has given away billions to charity. Anthropic co-founder Daniela Amodei and Canva co-founder Melanie Perkins are next.

Who is the youngest internet billionaire on the list?

Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, aged 29, worth about $3.2 billion.

Who is the richest British internet billionaire?

Revolut co-founder Nik Storonsky, worth $18.8 billion. The Playrix brothers Igor and Dmitry Bukhman and Bet365’s Denise Coates are also UK citizens on the list.

How do internet billionaires make their money?

Mostly from owning shares in the companies they founded or backed early. Their net worth rises and falls with those share prices, which is why the rankings change so often.

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• Business ideas to start your own internet company

Most of these fortunes started with one person and a website. If you want to start your own online store, Shopify (run by list member Tobi Lütke) is the easiest place to begin.

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