Introducing the highly anticipated official 100 Richest Internet Billionaires 2024 list by IncomeDiary! This exclusive list provides a comprehensive look at the individuals who have amassed extraordinary wealth through their ventures directly related to the Internet. With meticulous research, IncomeDiary has curated a definitive ranking showcasing these internet moguls’ remarkable financial achievements, which led them to become internet billionaires. From visionary tech innovators to astute digital investors, this list unveils the diverse paths that have led these individuals to immense prosperity.
Jeff Bezos: Founder of Amazon is worth $200 Billion
Jeff (60) is an American technology and retail entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist best known asthe founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, the world’s largest online shopping retailer (worth about $1.8 trillion). The company was founded in Jeff’s home garageand began as an as an online bookstore, but now it is best known for selling and offering a wide range of products and services, including electronics, clothing, groceries, and digital content like video and audio streaming. Amazon.com is currently the world’s largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web andearns $575 Billion annually (that’s $18,250 a second).
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Mark Zuckerberg: Founder of Facebook is worth $185 billion
Mark (39) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He co-founded Facebook and currently serves as its chairman and chief executive officer. Forbes ranks him the fourth richest billionaire in the world and the richest under 40.
Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard University dormitory roomwith the help of his college roommates and fellow Harvard students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
Larry Page: Founder of Google is worth $142.5 billion
Larry (51) is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin (famously in a garage). Page is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. After stepping aside as Google CEO in August 2001 in favour of Eric Schmidt, he re-assumed the role in April 2011. Page is the 6th richest person in the world and the company he founded is worth over $2 trillion. Page is the inventor of PageRank and an investor in Tesla Motors.
Sergey Brin: Founder of Google is worth $136.6 billion
Sergey (50) is a Russian-born American computer scientist, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist worth more than $130 billion. Together with Larry Page, he co-founded Google. President of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., Brin is not just limited to Google. He is passionately working on other, more personal projects that reach beyond Google, aiming to make a significant impact on the world’s energy and climate problems. Brin and Page are leading the charge at Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, which invests in the alternative energy industry to find wider sources of renewable energy.
Zhang Yiming: Founder of TikTok is worth $43.4 billion
Zhang Yiming (41) founded ByteDance, the parent company of the popular social media platform TikTok. He founded the company in 2012, and it has since become one of the most valuable startups in the world. ByteDance’s success is mainly due to the popularity of TikTok, which has over 1 billion active users worldwide. Zhang’s net worth is estimated to be $43.4 billion, making him one of the wealthiest people in China. Despite his success, Zhang is known for being very private and rarely gives interviews or public speeches.
Ma Huateng: Founder of Tencent is worth $37.8 billion
Ma (52) also known as Pony Ma, is a Chinese internet entrepreneur. He is the founder, president, chief executive officer and executive board member of Tencent Inc., one of the largest Internet companies in China. The company controls China’s biggest mobile instant messaging service and its subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, the internet and mobile phone value-added services.
Eric Schmidt: First CEO of Google is worth $32 billion
Eric (69) is a well-known American businessman who served as the first CEO of Google (from 2001 to 2011) and the former executive chairman of Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company. Schmidt owns about 1% of Alphabet’s shares and is one of the richest people in the world. He has collected about $5 billion from selling his Google stock. Schmidt joined Google in 2001 after meeting the company’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, at a conference in 1998.
William Ding: Founder of NetEase is worth $30.6 billion
William (52) is a Chinese entrepreneur best known as the founder of NetEase, a leading internet technology company in China. He created NetEase in 1997, which has since grown to become one of the largest internet companies in China, focusing on online gaming, e-commerce, and other internet services. NetEase is also the parent company of Blizzard Entertainment, a video game developer that created the popular game Overwatch, and Ding played a significant role in bringing Overwatch to China. Despite starting with relatively little funding, Ding grew NetEase into a multi-billion-dollar company through his business acumen and strategic investments.
Eduardo Saverin: Co-founder of Facebook is worth $30 billion
Eduardo (42) is a Brazilian Internet entrepreneur and angel investor. Saverin is one of the co-founders of Facebook. During his junior year at Harvard, Saverin met fellow Harvard undergraduate, sophom*ore Mark Zuckerberg. Noting the need for a dedicated social networking website for Harvard students, the two worked together to launch The Facebook. As co-founder, Saverin was the chief financial officer and business manager. As of 2015, he owns 53 million Facebook shares (approximately 0.4% of all outstanding shares). He has also invested in early-stage startups such as Qwiki and Jumio.
Ma Yun: Founder of Alibaba is worth $24.7 billion
Ma (59) is known professionally as Jack Ma, is a Chinese business magnate who is the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a family of Internet-based businesses. He is currently the richest person in Asia and the 74th richest in the world. He has become a global icon in business and entrepreneurship, one of the world’s most influential businessmen, and a philanthropist known for expounding his philosophy of business.
Dustin Moskovitz: Co-founder of Facebook is worth $18.3 billion
Dustin (40) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. He played a significant role in the founding of the business by working as the chief technology officer and overseeing the technical aspects of the company. After leaving Facebook in 2008, Moskovitz co-founded Asana, a web and mobile application designed to help teams organize and manage their work. Today, he remains a majority owner of Asana and serves as its CEO. Additionally, he still holds a 1% stake in Meta, formerly known as Facebook, making him one of the world’s youngest billionaires.
Andy Bechtolsheim: Co-founder of Sun Microsystems is worth $14.7 billion
Andy (68) is a German electrical engineer, entrepreneur, investor, and self-made billionaire. He co-founded Sun Microsystems and was its chief hardware designer. The first product, the Sun-1, included the Stanford CPU board design with improved memory expansion, and a sheet-metal case. By the end of the year, the experimental Ethernet interface designed by Bechtolsheim was replaced by a commercial board from 3Com.
David Cheriton: One of Googles first investors is worth $14.7 billion
David (72) is a Canadian computer scientist, mathematician, businessman, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. He is a computer science professor at Stanford University, where he founded and heads up the Distributed Systems Group. He is a distributed systems and networking expert with keen insight into identifying big market opportunities and building the architectures needed to address these opportunities. He has founded and invested in technology companies, including Google, where he was amongst the first investors
Hasso Plattner: Co-founder of SAP SE is worth $11.5 billion
Hasso (80) is a German businessman. A co-founder of SAP SE software company, he has been chairman of the supervisory board of SAP SE since May 2003. For his commitment to economics and science, Plattner has received a number of honours. Leadership Award for Global Integration to the “technology guru” and inaugurated him into their Hall of Fame, which honours those who promote economic and social development in Germany.
Brian Chesky: Co-founder of Airbnb is worth $10.8 billion
Brian (42) co-founded Airbnb in 2008 with Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk. The idea was born out of the necessity to make rent money by renting out their living space. The trio launched the website Airbedandbreakfast.com, and after seeing potential in their idea, they rebranded it to Airbnb. The company’s success grew rapidly, and with innovative strategies and a strong vision, Brian Chesky led Airbnb to become a global phenomenon, making him a billionaire in the process. His visionary leadership and the company’s disruption of the hospitality industry were pivotal in his rise to billionaire status.
Airbnb only took 34 months between launching and becoming a billion dollar company.
Liu Qiangdong: Founder of JD.com is worth $10.7 billion
Liu (50) is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur, also known as Richard Liu. He is the founder of JD.com or Jingdong Mall, one of the leading e-commerce industry leaders in China. As a young man, Liu Qiangdong had an interest in politics. Liu enrolled in the department of sociology at the People’s University of China, known for its connection to China’s political elites. However, Liu spent all his spare time learning computer programming.
Nathan Blecharczyk: Co-founder of Airbnb is worth $10.5 billion
Nathan (40) is an American business executive and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and chief strategy officer of Airbnb and was the company’s first chief technology officer. He continued writing programs while attending Harvard University in pursuit of a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and began his career as an engineer at OPNET Technologies. He served as a lead developer at Batiq. Later Blecharczyk partnered with Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia to found Airbnb, he served as the company’s first chief technology officer and coded the company’s original website using Ruby on Rails.
Jimmy Donaldson: Founder of YouTube channel MrBeast is worth $10 billion
Jimmy Donaldson (26), best known as MrBeast, is a popular YouTuber known for his philanthropic acts and attention-grabbing stunts. He gained success through his unique and often extreme content, which includes giving away large sums of money and undertaking challenging and elaborate tasks. His dedication to eye-catching, high-quality content and his genuine personality have won him a massive following and earns his company around $700 million a year. MrBeast has become one of the most prominent YouTubers due to his innovative content and ability to keep viewers engaged. In a remarkable show of his influence, it was reported that someone attempted to purchase his YouTube channel for $1 billion, highlighting his remarkable impact and success.
Great tutorial for becoming successful on YouTube.
Wang Xing: Founder and CEO of Meituan is worth $9.8 billion
Wang (45) is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur and investor with a net worth of $9.8 billion. He is the founder and CEO of Meituan, a Chinese tech company that operates one of China’s largest online marketplaces for food delivery, travel bookings, and other services.
Meituan is often referred to as the “Groupon of China” due to its initial focus on group-buying deals before expanding into other areas. Before founding Meituan, Wang Xing had founded several other companies, including Fanfou, a Chinese microblogging site, and Xiaonei, a social networking site for college students.
Marc Benioff: Founder of Salesforce is worth $9.7 billion
Marc (59) is an American internet entrepreneur, author and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of Salesforce, a large enterprise cloud computing company (started in an apartment he rented). Benioff started Salesforce in March 1999 in a rented San Francisco apartment and defined its mission in a marketing statement as “The End of Software” Benioff has long evangelized software as a service as the model that would replace traditional enterprise software.
Joe Gebbia: Co-founder of Airbnb is worth $9.6 billion
Joe (42) is an American designer and Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Airbnb. In 2009, Gebbia was listed in BusinessWeek’s Top 20 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs. Gebbia convinced Chesky to move to San Francisco in 2007 to start a business together. When they both quit their jobs, their landlord raised their rent, so they needed money. Knowing the Industrial Design Society of America conference was coming to San Francisco and, many hotels were booked. Gebbia believed they could rent out airbeds in their apartment to conference goers, they marketed this business idea by creating a website called “AirBed & Breakfast.”
Jan Koum: Co-founder of WhatsApp is worth $9.7 billion
Jan (48) is an American internet inventor and computer programmer. Koum and Acton applied, and failed, to work at Facebook. Latter Koum bought an iPhone and realized that the then-seven-month-old App Store was about to spawn a whole new industry of apps. Koum almost immediately chose the name WhatsApp because it sounded like “what’s up”. He is the CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp (with Brian Acton), a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook Inc. in February 2014 for US$19.3 billion.
James Goodnight: Co-founder of SAS Institute is worth $8.8 billion
James (81) is an American businessman and software programmer. He and several other faculty members of North Carolina State University left the university in 1976 to co-found SAS Institute. Since the first day of incorporation, he has served as the company’s CEO. His leadership style and the work environment he created at SAS, now a multibillion-dollar company, have been studied by other businesses and by academics.
Joseph Tsai: Co-founder of Alibaba is worth $8.6 billion
Joseph (60) is a Taiwanese-Canadian businessman. He is the co-founder and vice chairman of Alibaba Group. Joseph Tsai was born in Taipei, Taiwan, but holds a Canadian passport. He is also the president of Crimson Group, chairman of the football club Rakuten Vissel Kobe, chairman of Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and a board member of Lyft. He attended high school at the Lawrenceville School and has undergraduate and law degrees from Yale University where he also played collegiate lacrosse.
Denise Coates: Founder of Bet365 is worth $9 billion
Denise (56) is an English businesswoman, founder and joint chief executive of online gambling company Bet365. While working in a temporary building on a car park near one of her shops, she spent a year creating a new online betting site. The business borrowed £15 million from RBS against the family’s betting shop estate. In 2005 these shops were sold to Coral for £40 million which also paid off the loan to RBS.
David Duffield: Co-founder of PeopleSoft is worth $7.4 billion
David (83) is an American businessman in the software industry. He is the co-founder and former chairman of PeopleSoft, the co-founder and co-CEO of Workday, Inc., and has been on the Forbes World’s Richest People list. Implementation focuses on PeopleSoft’s proprietary PeopleTools technology. PeopleTools includes many different components used to create web-based applications.
John Collison: Co-founder of Stripe is worth $7.2 billion
John (33) is an Irish entrepreneur. He is best known for having co-founded Stripe with his brother, Patrick. The brothers are worth at least $1.1 billion each after San Francisco-based Stripe raised $150 million from CapitalG, an investment division of Google parent company Alphabet, and General Catalyst Partners. In November 2016, the Collison brothers became the world’s youngest self-made billionaires.
Patrick Collison: Co-founder of Stripe is worth $7.2 billion
Patrick (35) is an Irish entrepreneur from County Limerick. He is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, which he started with his younger brother, John, in 2010. He won the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at the age of sixteen. He lives in San Francisco, California. The brothers are now worth at least $1.1 billion each after San Francisco-based Stripe raised $150 million from CapitalG, an investment division of Google parent company Alphabet, and General Catalyst Partners.
Peter Thiel: Co-founder of PayPal is worth $7 billion
Peter (56) is a billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. He co-founded PayPal in 1998, an online payment company that was later sold to eBay for $1.5 billion (see 30 biggest website sales). Thiel became a billionaire after the sale of PayPal. He is also known for being an early investor in Facebook, acquiring a 10.2% stake in the company for $500,000 in 2004. His investment in Facebook contributed significantly to his wealth and success as a venture capitalist. Thiel’s business acumen and early investments in successful tech companies have solidified his status as a prominent figure in the tech and finance industries.
Zhang Zhidong: Co-founder of Tencent is worth $12.5 billion
Zhang (52) also known as Tony Zhang, is a Chinese businessman, co-founder, former CTO and second-largest individual shareholder of Tencent, a Chinese internet company. He was in the same class at Shenzhen University as Tencent’s founder, fellow billionaire Ma Huateng. Tencent shares have more than doubled in the past year. The company is about 30% owned by Naspers of South Africa. He also has a master’s degree from the South China University of Technology.
Brian Acton: Co-founder of WhatsApp is worth $6.5 billion
Brian (52) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder (with Jan Koum) of WhatsApp a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook Inc. He later graduated from Stanford University in 1994 with a degree in computer science. In 1992, he became a systems administrator for Rockwell International, before becoming a product tester at Apple Inc. and Adobe Systems.
Martin Lorentzon: Founder of Spotify is worth $6.5 billion
Martin (55) is a Swedish billionaire entrepreneur and investor who co-founded the music streaming service Spotify along with Daniel Ek in 2006. The company was founded with the goal of creating a legal and affordable music streaming service that would fairly compensate artists for their work. Lorentzon’s contribution to the company’s success has been significant, as he was responsible for developing the technology that powers the platform. As of 2021, Martin Lorentzon’s net worth is estimated to be nearly $6.5 billion, making him one of the wealthiest people in Sweden. Despite his wealth, Lorentzon is known for being a down-to-earthand unassuming person passionate about music and technology
Tobias Lütke: Co-founder of Shopify is worth $6.4 billion
Tobias (43) is a German-born entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and CEO of Shopify, a leading e-commerce platform, bringing in $7.1 billion in revenue last year. With a net worth of $6.4 billion, he is one of the wealthiest people in Canada.
Lütke started his career as a programmer and worked at several tech companies before co-founding Shopify in 2006. Under his leadership, Shopifyhas become a major player inthe e-commerce world, serving over 1 million businesses in more than 175 countries. Lütke is known for his innovative and customer-centric approach to business and hasbeen recognized with numerous awards and honours throughout his career.
Pierre Omidyar: Founder of eBay is worth $6.5 billion
Pierre (56) is a French-born Iranian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder of the eBay auction site (which he started at home) where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015. He became a billionaire at the age of 31 with eBay’s 1998 initial public offering (IPO).
Omidyar and his wife Pamela are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in order to expand their efforts beyond non-profits to include for-profits and public policy. Since 2010, Omidyar has been involved in online journalism as the head of investigative reporting and public affairs news service Honolulu Civil Beat.
Travis Kalanick: Former Uber CEO is worth $6.3 billion
Travis (47) co-founder of the peer-to-peer file sharing company Red Swoosh and former CEO of transportation network company Uber. In 2014, he entered the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans at position 190. Kalanick started his first business, an online file-exchange service called Scour. In 1998, he dropped out of UCLA to work at the start-up full time.
Kwon Hyuk-Bin: Founder of Smilegate is worth $6.3 billion
Kwon Hyuk-Bin (50) founded Smilegate in and built it into one of the most successful gaming companies in South Korea. Partnership with Chinese Internet giant Tencent, it released its most popular title, CrossFire. Through his Smilegate Foundation, Kwon has established schools in China and Vietnam, providing education in IT, among other subjects. Kwon’s Smilegate Holdings, of which he owns 100%, is the largest shareholder of Korean mobile game developer SundayToz.
Hiroshi Mikitani: Founder of Rakuten is worth $6.1 billion
Hiroshi (59) is a Japanese billionaire businessman and the founder and CEO of Rakuten. In 1996, Mikitani started looking at various business models and decided to launch an online shopping mall. At the time, Netscape was around, Amazon.com had recently launched, and Google didn’t yet exist. Mikitani founded the e-commerce company MDM, Inc. with three co-founders and of their own money, launching the online marketplace Rakuten Ichiba in Japan. The company was renamed Rakuten, Inc. It started as a small online marketplace and has since grown into an e-commerce giant.
Robin Li: Founder of Baidu is worth $6 billion
Robin (55) co-founded the Chinese search engine Baidu. Since founding Baidu Li has turned the company into the largest Chinese search engine, with over 80% market share by a search query, and the second largest independent search engine in the world. Li studied information management at Peking University and computer science at the State University of New York at Buffalo, In addition, Li also serves as the member of the 12th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
Mark Scheinberg: Founder of PokerStars is worth $5.6 billion
Mark (51) is an Israeli-Canadian businessman, co-founder and former co-owner of the online gambling company PokerStars. Together with his father, computer programmer Isai Scheinberg. In June 2014, it was reported that Rational Group Ltd, the PokerStars parent company was being bought by Amaya Gaming Group of Canada for $4.9 billion. Scheinberg was CEO and 75% owner of Rational, which also owned Full Tilt Poker.
Ralph Dommermuth: Founder of 1&1 Internet is worth $5.5 billion
Ralph (60) leads United Internet AG, one of Germany’s largest Internet access providers, which serves mostly home users and small- to medium-sized enterprises and also provides web hosting, storage and email services. Dommermuth launched United’s predecessor company, 1&1 AG, in 1988 with a borrowed desk and $285,000 saved from working as a computer salesman. Dommermuth trained as a banker, before moving into computer sales in Montabaur, Germany. Dommermuth is Germany’s sole Internet billionaire and the country’s youngest self-made billionaire.
Kim Jung-Ju: Founder of Nexon is worth $5 billion
Kim (56) is a Korean businessman who co-founded Korea’s largest gaming company, Nexon. He owns NXC, the 20-year-old holding company of Nexon. Education. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in computer science and engineering from Seoul National University. He attained his masters and PhD in electronic engineering and computer science at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology.
Garrett Camp: Co-founder of Uber is worth $4.7 billion
Garrett (45) is a Canadian businessman and investor. He co-founded StumbleUpon a web-discovery platform, while in graduate school at the University of Calgary in 2002 and co-founded Uber, an on-demand car service available via a mobile application in 2009.
Garrett occasionally invests in and advises new start-ups. Previously Garrett invested in Prism Skylabs, SoundTracking, WillCall and PSDept. Garrett was also a Series-A investor in Behance, prior to its acquisition by Adobe.
Rony Abovitz: Founder of Magic Leap is worth $4.5 billion
Rony (53) is an American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of augmented reality startup Magic Leap. In October 2014, the startup raised over $540 million of venture funding from Google and other investors. In October 2017, Magic Leap announced the partnership with online comic book publisher Madefire. Prior to Magic Leap, Abovitz co-founded MAKO Surgical Corp., a company manufacturing surgical robotic arm assistance platforms. He attended the University of Miami, where he obtained a master’s degree in biomedical engineering.
Jack Dorsey: Co-founder of Twitter is worth $4.5 billion
Jack (47) is an American computer programmer and internet entrepreneur widely known as a co-founder and CEO of Twitter, and as the founder and CEO of Square, a mobile payments company. Williams, Stone and Noah Glass co-founded Obvious Corporation, which then spun off Twitter Inc. with Dorsey as the CEO. After Dorsey, along with co-founder Jim McKelvey, developed a small business platform to accept debit and credit card payments on a mobile device – Square.
Gabe Newell: Founder of Valve is worth $4.3 billion
Gabe (61) often nicknamed Gaben, is an American computer programmer and businessman who is best known as the co-founder and president of the video game development and digital distribution company Valve Corporation. Born in Seattle, Newell attended Harvard University in the early 1980s, but dropped out shortly before graduating and soon went to work for the American technology company Microsoft, where he spent the next decade working as a producer for some of their early Windows operating systems.
David Filo: Co-founder of Yahoo! is worth $4.4 billion
David (57) is an American businessman and the co-founder of Yahoo! with Jerry Yang. In 1994, he co-created with Jerry Yang an Internet website called “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web”, consisting of a directory of other websites. It was renamed “Yahoo!”. It started off as a web portal with a web directory providing an extensive range of products and services for various online activities. Filo Server Program, written in the C programming language, was the server-side software used to dynamically serve variable web pages, called Filo Server Pages, on visits to early versions of the Yahoo! website.
Barry Diller: Founder of Expedia is worth $4.2 billion
Barry (82) is an American businessman, who currently serves as the Chairman and Senior Executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp and Expedia. Inc. and the media executive responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company and USA Broadcasting. Diller is a member of the Television Hall of Fame, having been inducted in 1994. Diller began his career through a family connection in the mailroom of the William Morris Agency after dropping out of UCLA after one semester. He was hired as an assistant by Elton Rule, then west coast head of ABC who was promoted to network President. He was promoted to Vice President of Development in 1965.
Yuri Milner: Investor is worth $4.12 billion
Yuri (62) is a Russian entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist. Milner is Russia’s most influential tech investor as the founder of investment firm Digital Sky Technologies now called Mail.ru Group and DST Global. Through DST Global, Milner is an investor in Facebook, Zynga, Twitter, Flipkart, Spotify, ZocDoc, Groupon, JD.com, Planet Labs, Xiaomi, OlaCabs, Alibaba, Habito, AirBnB, WhatsApp, Wish and many others.
Reed Hastings: Founder of Netflix is worth $4.1 billion
Reed (63) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and CEO of Netflix and serves on the boards of Facebook and a number of non-profit organizations. Hastings’ first job was at Adaptive Technology, where he invented a tool for debugging software. Hastings is a member of Technology Network, a political network of business executives that promotes technology growth and innovation.
Kim Beom-soo: Founder of Kakao is worth $4 billion
Kim (58) is a South Korean entrepreneur who is worth $4 billion. He founded Kakao Corp, a tech company that operates the KakaoTalk messaging app with over 50 million users worldwide. Kim Beom-soo’s success as an entrepreneur can be attributed to his ability to identify market needs and create innovative solutions to meet those needs. He is from Busan, South Korea and started his career as a software engineer. His goal for the future is to continue to expand Kakao’s services and to further establish the company as a leader in the tech industry.
Eric Yuan: Founder of Zoom is worth $4 billion
Eric (54) is the founder and CEO of Zoom, a video conferencing platform that has become increasingly popular over the past few years. Yuan founded Zoom in 2011 after leaving his position at Cisco Webex. Under his leadership, the company has experienced remarkable growth, with over 300 million daily meeting participants. Yuan’s 22% share in the company is worth an estimated $4 billion, making him one of the wealthiest tech entrepreneurs in the world.
Evan Spiegel: Co-founder of SnapChat is worth $4 billion
Evan (33) is an American Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the American multinational technology and social media company Snap Inc., which he created (as Snapchat Inc.) with Bobby Murphy and Reggie Brown while they were students at Stanford University. He also had an unpaid internship in sales at Red Bull. While a student, he worked as a paid intern for a biomedical company, as a careers instructor in Cape Town, South Africa, and at Intuit on the TxtWeb project.
Bobby Murphy: Co-founder of SnapChat is worth $4 billion
Bobby (35) is an American Internet entrepreneur and engineer. He is the co-founder and the CTO of the American Multinational technology and social media company Snap Inc., which he created (as Snapchat Inc.) with Evan Spiegel and Reggie Brown while they were students at Stanford University. In March 2017, Murphy and Spiegel took Snap Inc public, with the camera company reaching a market cap high of $34 billion within two days of its IPO. In August 2017, the camera company reports a market cap of $13 billion, according to Google finance.
Shi Yuzhu: Entrepreneur is worth $4 billion
Shi (62) is a Chinese entrepreneur and software engineer. After he graduated from the Department of Mathematics at Zhejiang University, he did his postgraduate study in the Department of Software Engineering at Shenzhen University. Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Giant Interactive, one of China’s most successful online game companies. In October, licensed flagship game ZT Online to Astrum Nival of Russia.
Jia Yueting: Le.com founder is worth $3.8 billion
Jia (51) is the former CEO of Le.com. He also founded LeSports (was a subsidiary of Le.com) and was the largest shareholder of Coolpad Group. He was the owner of former Singapore-listed company Sinotel Technologies. Jia Yueting also founded Le.com and later LeEco. In 2015 he purchased Coolpad Group from Guo Deying. In July 2017 he resigned as the chairman and CEO of Le.com. He was replaced by Sun Hongbin, chairman of the second largest shareholder of Le.com, Sunac China; Le.com general manager Liang Jun and Le Vision Pictures chairman and CEO Zhang Zhao were also elected into the board.
Yusaku Maezawa: Founder of Zozotown is worth $3.6 billion
Yusaku (48) is a Japanese entrepreneur and contemporary art collector. He founded the Start Today company in 1998 and online fashion retail website, Zozotown in 2004. Maezawa used the basis of the mail-order album business to launch the company Start Today. The same year, his band signed with the label BMG Japan. Start Today had moved to an online platform, had begun selling clothing, and had become a public company.
Teddy Sagi: Founder of Playtech is worth $3.6 billion
Teddy Sagi (53) is one of the world’s leading property and tech entrepreneurs.
In 1999 he founded Playtech, one of the world’s leading gaming software companies, before exiting in 2016.
Since then he has moved into real estate, co-working and various technology ventures.
Teddy Sagi’s property portfolio now includes London’s Camden Market, Sicilian Avenue and large parts of Holborn and has been valued at many billions of pounds.
Here he has pioneered a new type of co-working, using his tech know-how to bring the physical communities much closer together than has traditionally been the case.
Bob Parsons: Founder of GoDaddy is worth $3.6 billion
Bob (73) is an American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist. He founded the GoDaddy group of companies, including domain name registrar GoDaddy.com, reseller registrar Wild West Domains and Blue Razor Domains. In July 2011, Parsons sold approximately 70 percent of Go Daddy to a private equity consortium and resigned his position as CEO. In June 2014, he stepped down from his position as Executive Chairman and currently serves on Go Daddy’s board. Parsons owns 28 percent of the company and is its largest shareholder.
Rishi Shah: Founder of Outcome Health is worth $3.6 billion
Riski (38) is an American billionaire, the founder and 80% owner of Outcome Health. Following a funding round with Goldman Sachs, CapitalG, Pritzker Group, and others invest $600 million in Outcome Health, giving it a $5.6 billion valuation. This is the largest single funding round since Groupon in 2011, when it raised $950 million in its fifth funding round. Rishi Shah was educated at Hinsdale Central High School and Northwestern University.
Judith Faulkner: Founder of Epic Systems is worth $3.4 billion
Judith (80) is the CEO and founder of Epic Systems, a healthcare software company located in Wisconsin. Faulkner founded Epic Systems in 1979, with the original name of Human Services Computing. The company began with a $6,000 investment, part of which came from Faulkner’s parents. Faulkner and her family currently own 43% of Epic Systems. She received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Dickinson College and a master’s degree in computer science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Aneel Bhusri: Co-founder of Workday is worth $3 billion
Aneel (58) is an enterprise software executive and investor. He is the co-founder and CEO of Workday, Inc., a partner at Greylock Partners, and a member of the board of directors of Intel.He was educated at Brown University, receiving Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics. His first job, following college, was as a corporate finance analyst at Morgan Stanley.
Sean Parker: Founder of Napster is worth $2.8 billion
Sean (44) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who co-founded the file-sharing computer service Napster and served as the first president of the social networking website Facebook. He also co-founded Plaxo, Causes, Airtime, and Brigade, an online platform for civic engagement. While working at Founders Fund, Parker had been looking to invest in a company that could further Napster’s music sharing mission legally. In 2009 a friend showed him Spotify and in 2010 Parker invested US$15 million in Spotify.
Michael Rubin: CEO of Kynetic is worth $11.5 billion
Michael (52) is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and the founder and executive chairman of Fanatics, a leading online retailer of licensed sports merchandise. He became a billionaire through his successful e-commerce ventures and strategic investments. Rubin founded GSI Commerce, an e-commerce company that eBay later acquired for $2.4 billion in 2011. He also founded Kynetic, an e-commerce platform that includes Fanatics, Rue La La, and ShopRunner, which have all achieved significant success in their respective markets. Through his entrepreneurial endeavours and business acumen, Michael Rubin has established himself as a prominent figure in the e-commerce industry and a notable billionaire.
Kavitark Ram Shriram: Founding board member of Google is worth $2.7 billion
Kavitark (68) is an Indian-born American businessman. He is a founding board member and one of the first investors in Google. He earlier served as an officer of Amazon.com working for Jeff Bezos. Shriram came to Amazon.com in August 1998, when Amazon acquired Junglee, an online comparison shopping firm of which Shriram was president. Before Junglee and Amazon, Shriram was a member of the Netscape executive team.
Scott Cook: Co-founder of Intuit is worth $2.6 billion
Scott (72) is a co-founder of Intuit, a director since March 1983 and chairman of the executive committee. Cook is a director of eBay and Procter & Gamble. Cook started his career at Procter & Gamble in Cincinnati, where he learned about product development, market research, and marketing. He then took a job in strategic consulting at Bain and Company in Menlo Park. He launched Intuit, which today offers software and online products to help individuals and small companies manage their finances. Cook holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Mathematics.
Kevin Systrom: Founder of Instagram is worth $2.6 billion
Kevin (40) is an American programmer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Instagram (often said to be an overnight success) along with Mike Krieger. After graduating from Stanford, he joined Google as an associate product marketing manager. He then left Google to join Nextstop, a location recommendation startup founded by ex-Googlers that was acquired by Facebook. He also once created programs that would prank his friends by appearing to hack their AOL Instant Messenger accounts.
Jerry Yang: Founder of Yahoo! is worth $2.6 billion
Jerry (55) is an American Internet entrepreneur and programmer. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc.After leaving Yahoo! he became a mentor to technology startups and an investor through his firm, AME Cloud Ventures. AME (pronounced “ah-meh”) has provided funding to more than 50 startups, including Tango, Evernote, Wattpad and Chinese travel site Shijiebang. Yang met Alibaba founder Jack Ma during Yang’s first trip to China. Ma created Alibaba several months later. A photo of Yang and Ma at the Great Wall still hangs on the wall in Alibaba’s Hangzhou office. He re-joined the board of Alibaba in 2014.
Reid Hoffman: Co-founder of Linkedin is worth $2.5 billion
Reid (56) is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Hoffman is the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking (founded in his home living room). He is currently a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners. At the time of PayPal’s acquisition by eBay for $1.5B in 2002, he was executive vice president of PayPal. After the PayPal sale to eBay, Hoffman became one of Silicon Valley’s most prolific and successful angel investors.
Michael Cannon-Brookes: Co-founder of Atlassian is worth $2.5 billion
Michael (44) is an Australian billionaire, the co-founder and co-CEO of the software company Atlassian. Cannon-Brookes often carries the epithet of accidental billionaire after he and his business partner Scott Farquhar founded Atlassian with the simple aim to replicate the A$48,000 graduate starting salary typical at the big corporations without having to work for someone else. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales’ School of Computer Science and Engineering. Cannon-Brookes was also honoured by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader in 2009.
Scott Farquhar: Co-founder of Atlassian is worth $2.5 billion
Scott (44) is an Australian billionaire, the co-founder and co-CEO of the software company Atlassian. Farquhar often carries the epithet of accidental billionaire after he and his business partner Mike Cannon-Brookes founded Atlassian with the simple aim to replicate the A$48,000 graduate starting salary typical at the big corporations without having to work for someone else. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales’ School of Computer Science and Engineering. Cannon-Brookes and Farquhar were recognized for their achievements as the Australian IT Professional of the Year award in 2004.
Sam Yagan: Co-founder of OkCupid is worth $2.4 billion
Sam (46) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of OkCupid. In 2013, he was named to TIME Magazine’s ‘100 Most Influential People in the World’ list. In 2011 Yagan sold his dating website (OkCupid) to IAC for $50 million and in 2012 Yagan became the CEO of Match.com and he is and CEO of Shoprunner.com. In 2009 Yagan and Troy Henikoff founded Excelerate Labs.
Sheryl Sandberg: COO of Facebook is worth $2.2 billion
Sheryl (54) is an American technology executive, author, and billionaire philanthropist known for being Facebook’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) and her bestselling book “Lean In.” She joined Facebook in 2008 as COO, bringing her extensive experience from her previous role at Google. In 2012, she played a key role in Facebook’s initial public offering (IPO) and subsequently became the first woman to serve on the company’s board. Sandberg’s wealth skyrocketed due to her significant holdings in Facebook, which made her a billionaire following the company’s IPO. Her impressive career trajectory and the success of her investments have contributed to her billionaire status.
Tony Xu: Co-founder of DoorDash is worth $2.1 billion
Tony Xu (39) is the co-founder and CEO of DoorDash, a food delivery service that operates in over 4,000 cities in North America. Xu founded DoorDash in 2013 with co-founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang, whom he met while they were all students at Stanford University. Xu’s success as an entrepreneur can be attributed to his ability to scale and manage a rapidly growing business while prioritizing customer satisfaction. He is originally from Nanjing, China and moved to the United States with his family when he was five. Xu’s goal for the future is to continue to expand DoorDash’s services and to further establish the company as a leader in the food delivery industry.
James H. Clark: Founder of Netscape is worth $2.1 billion
James (80) is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist. He founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO, and Healtheon. His research work in computer graphics led to the development of systems for the fast rendering of three-dimensional computer images. In 1999, Jim Clark launched myCFO, a company formed to help wealthy Silicon Valley individuals manage their fortunes.
David Karp: Founder of Tumblr is worth $2 billion
David (37) is an American web developer and entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of the short-form blogging platform Tumblr. According to Forbes, Karp’s net worth exceeds $200 million, and Tumblr has been valued at $800 million. Karp began his career as an intern under Fred Seibert at the animation company Frederator Studios, where he built the studio’s first blogging platform and conceived, wrote, and edited their first internet video network, Channel Frederator.
Eric Lefkofsky: Co-founder of Groupon is worth $2 billion
Eric (54) is an American entrepreneur. He is co-founder and CEO of Tempus. He is also the co-founder and chairman of Groupon, co-founder of Echo Global Logistics (ECHO), InnerWorkings (INWK), Mediaocean and Uptake. He is also a co-founder of the Chicago-based venture capital firm, Lightbank and he created an early Internet company called Starbelly that specialized in promotional products.
Todd Wagner: Broadcast founder is worth $1.9 billion
Todd (63) co-founded Broadcast.com and is now Founder and Chairman of the Charity Network. He joined up with fellow Mark Cuban and they successfully launched AudioNet, broadcasting live sporting events and radio stations over the Internet. Wagner has his own charitable foundation, the Todd Wagner Foundation. After meeting with Arnold Schwarzenegger, Wagner in 2001 launched his Foundation’s first children’s program, the Dallas chapter of the After-School All-Stars (then called Inner-City Games).
Evan Williams: Founder of Twitter is worth $1.9 billion
Evan (52) is a prominent tech entrepreneur who co-founded Twitter and founded Medium and Blogger. He was born in Nebraska in 1972 and started his career in tech by co-founding Pyra Labs, the company behind Blogger, in 1999. In 2003, Williams co-founded Odeo, which later became Twitter. He served as CEO of Twitter from 2008 to 2010, during which time the platform exploded in popularity. As of 2021, Williams’ net worth is estimated to be nearly $2 billion, making him one of the wealthiest tech entrepreneurs in the world.
Claus Wellenreuther: Co-founder of SAP SE is worth $1.83 billion
Claus (89) is a German entrepreneur and co-founder of software company SAP SE. He left IBM then joined his former IBM colleagues Hasso Plattner, Dietmar Hopp, Hans-Werner Hector and Klaus Tschira to found the software company “Systeme Anwendungen und Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung”, which would later become the SAP AG. Wellenreuther was primarily responsible for the architecture and the concept of the SAP R/2 financial accountancy module.
Drew Houston: Founder of Dropbox is worth $1.8 billion
Drew (41) is an American Internet entrepreneur who is best known for being the founder and CEO of Dropbox, an online backup and storage service. Before working on Dropbox, Drew Houston worked on a number of other startups which include Bit9, Accolade and Hubspot. Drew was also named among the top 30 under-30 entrepreneurs by inc.com, and Dropbox has been called one of the 20 best startups of Silicon Valley.
Michael Morhaime: Co-founder of Blizzard is worth $1.8 billion
Michael (56) is president and a co-founder of Blizzard Entertainment, a video game developer located in Irvine, California, owned by Activision Blizzard. Mr Morhaime served as Vice President of Blizzard Entertainment, Inc., a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. He served on the Vivendi Games executive committee 1999 when Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. became a subsidiary of Vivendi Games. He graduated from Granada Hills High School in 1985. He is also an alumnus of Triangle Fraternity and received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 1990 from UCLA.
Marc Andreessen: Co-founder of Netscape is worth $1.8 billion
Marc (52) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer. Andreessen is also a co-founder of Ning, a company that provides a platform for social networking websites. He sits on the board of directors of Facebook, eBay, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, among others. A frequent keynote speaker and guest at Silicon Valley conferences, Andreessen was one of only six inductees in the World Wide Web Hall of Fame announced at the First International Conference on the World-Wide Web in 1994.
Stewart Butterfield: Co-founder of Flickr and Slack is worth $1.6 billion
Stewart (51) is a Canadian entrepreneur and businessman of Polish descent, best known for being a co-founder of the photo-sharing website Flickr and team messaging application Slack. In 2000, Butterfield worked with a friend to build a startup called Gradfinder.com. Following Gradfinder.com’s acquisition, he worked as a freelance web designer. Butterfield also created a contest called the 5K competition centred around people designing websites under 5 kilobytes.
Alex Karp: Co-founder of Plantir Technologies is worth $1.6 billion
Alex (56) is an American businessman, co-founder and CEO of the software firm Palantir Technologies. Prior to co-founding Palantir, Karp founded Caedmon GroupKarp. He graduated from Central High School in 1985. Karp has a bachelor’s degree from Haverford College, a doctor of jurisprudence degree from Stanford University, and a doctorate in neoclassical social theory from Frankfurt University.
Ben Silbermann: Co-founder of Pinterest is worth $1.5 billion
Ben (42) is an American Internet entrepreneur who co-founded and is CEO of Pinterest, a virtual pinboard which lets users organize images, links, recipes and other things. The website allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections called “pinboards”. Examples include events, interests, hobbies and more. Silbermann says that the genesis of Pinterest really came from his love of collecting as a kid. “Collecting tells a lot about who you are,” he said, and when they looked at the web “there wasn’t a place to share that side of who you were.
Ken Howery: Co-founder of PayPal is worth $1.5 billion
Ken (48) is a co-founder and partner at Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm with over $3 billion under management. He co-founded PayPal. Howery served as PayPal’s CFO. Howery then rejoined Thiel in 2004 at Clarium Capital Management, where he served as vice president of private equity, as well as a member of the research and trading teams. The savvy investor was behind many of the company’s decisions, including their investment in Facebook.
Mark Pincus: Co-founder of Zynga is worth $1.4 billion
Mark (58) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Zynga, which makes online social games. Pincus also founded Freeloader, Inc., Tribe Networks, and Support.com. Pincus served as the CEO of Zynga until July 2013. Zynga’s top games include – Bubble Safari, CastleVille, ChefVille, CityVille, CityVille 2 etc… Zynga is considered to be the pioneer of the social gaming industry. Within four years after Pincus founded Zynga, the company had gone public with $1 billion in revenue.
Steve Case: Co-founder of AOL is worth $1.38 billion
Steve (65) is an American entrepreneur, investor, and businessman best known as the co-founder and former chief executive officer and chairman of America Online (AOL). Since his retirement as chairman of AOL Time Warner in 2003, he has gone on to invest in early and growth-stage startups through his Washington, D.C. based venture capital firm Revolution LLC. He supports inclusive entrepreneurship and innovation through the Rise of the Rest road trips and the Case Foundation. Case also served as a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE).
Marcos Galperin: Co-founder of MercadoLibre is worth $1.3 billion
Marcos (52) is an Argentine businessman, who is best known as the co-founder and CEO of MercadoLibre.com. Marcos began the company while still in business school at Stanford University. Finance professor Jack McDonald had been helping Marcos to contact potential investors and asked John Muse, an invited speaker and co-founder of the Hicks Muse private equity fund if Marcos could drive him to his private plane.
Binny Bansal: Co-founder of Flipkart is worth $1.3 billion
Binny (43) is an Indian software engineer and Internet entrepreneur. In 2007 he co-founded the e-commerce platform Flipkart with Sachin Bansal (not related) and was serving as the Chief Operating Officer until 11 January 2016 and was promoted to Chief Executive Officer. Before co-founding Flipkart, Binny was previously employed with Amazon before that he was rejected by Google twice. Binny Bansal and his business partner Sachin Bansal initially thought of starting a comparison search engine but realized that the market for E-commerce in India was very small.
Craig Newmark: Founder of Craigslist is worth $1.3 billion
Craig (71) is an American Internet entrepreneur best known for being the founder of the San Francisco-based international website Craigslist. Newmark worked at IBM for 17 years as a programmer, living in New Jersey, after he moved to San Francisco to work for Charles Schwab, where he was introduced to the Internet—which at that time was still commercial-free. Currently, Newmark devotes most of his time to philanthropy, focusing on services for veterans, teachers and fighting online harassment. Read our interview with Craig Newmark.
Chen Tianqiao: Founder of Shanda is worth $1.2 billion
Chen (51) is a Chinese Singaporean businessman. He started Shanda Group as an online games company with his family. Shanda became the first Chinese online games company listed in the U.S. on Nasdaq. The company became the largest Internet company in China by market capitalization in 2004. Shanda is known for creating and promoting a freemium model for online games subscription in China. The company was taken private in early 2012, and Tianqiao Chen and his family subsequently sold all their stakes in Shanda Games in Nov 2014 when the company became a global private investment firm.
Sachin Bansal: Co-founder of Flipkart is worth $1.2 billion
Sachin (42) is an Indian Software engineer and Internet entrepreneur known for co-founding India’s e-commerce platform Flipkart. Sachin is from Chandigarh and is an engineering graduate from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Sachin Bansal and his business partner Binny Bansal launched Flipkart from an apartment in Bangalore with 400,000 rupees ($6,500) cash. Before the tremendous success of Flipkart, Sachin Bansal wanted to become a professional gamer.
Luke Nosek: Co-founder of PayPal is worth $1.2 billion
Luke (48) is a Polish-born American entrepreneur, notable for being a co-founder of PayPal. After PayPal went public and was sold to eBay, Nosek left the company to travel and pursue angel investing. In 2005, with Peter Thiel and Ken Howery, he started Founders Fund, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm with over $1bn under management. Luke Nosek currently sits on the boards of SpaceX and ResearchGate.
Stanley Tang: Founder of DoorDash is worth $1.2 billion
Stanley Tang (32) co-founded DoorDash, one of the most popular on-demand food delivery services in the United States. Born in China, Stanley moved to the US when he was just five years old. He grew up in a family that struggled to make ends meet, inspiring him to strive for success and give back to society.
Today, DoorDashis valuedat over $60 billion, and Stanley has achieved billionaire status. Yet, his journey is not solely about business success. He is deeply committed to using technology for societal good.His philanthropicendeavors, including substantial donations to education and poverty alleviation, and his role as a mentor to youngentrepreneurs,reflect his dedication to making a positive impact.
Read our interview with Stanley Tang before he became rich.
Lee Hae-Jin: Founder of Navar is worth $1.15 billion
Lee Hae-Jin (57) started Naver, now South Korea’s most popular search engine, while working at Samsung SDS in the late 1990s. The company’s instant messaging unit Line is Japan’s top messaging app and boasts 215 million global users. Line raised $1 billion during its dual listing in New York and Tokyo in July 2016, making it one of the largest tech IPOs of the year. He stepped down as chairman in March 2017 to focus on breaking into the North American and European markets.
Evan Sharp: Co-founder of Pinterest is worth $1 billion
Evan (42) is an American Internet entrepreneur, the co-founder and chief creative officer of Pinterest. Sharp met Ben Silbermann (who would become Pinterest’s CEO) in New York through a mutual friend. He soon thereafter moved to California, where he worked as a product designer at Facebook before joining Silbermann and Paul Sciarra to focus on Pinterest full-time. Sharp is credited with designing and coding Pinterest and the Pinterest grid for the initial product launch. Today he oversees all growth, international, product and design efforts at the San Francisco-based company.
Bharat Desai: Co-founder of Syntel is worth $1 billion
Bharat (71) is the co-founder and chairman of Syntel. Bharat Desai was born in Kenya. Desai co-founded Syntel, with his wife Neerja Sethi, of which he is the chairman. Desai is a board member of several educational institutions, including the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Dietmar Hopp: Co-founder of SAP SE is worth $1 billion
Dietmar (83) is a German billionaire software entrepreneur. He was one of the founders of SAP AG in 1972 with other former IBM employees Hans Werner Hector, Klaus Tschira, Claus Wellenreuther and Hasso Plattner. Hopp was the CEO of SAP AG from 1988 until 1998, Chairman of its supervisory board from 1998 until 2003 and member of the board from 2003 until 2005.
Alexander Samwer: Co-founder of Rocket Internet is worth $1 billion
With his brothers Marc and Oliver he co-founded Alando, which was sold to eBay in 1999 then Jamba! which was sold to VeriSign. With his brothers he founded the venture capital company European Founders Fund with which they invested in Lokalisten, StudiVZ (German-counterpart to Facebook), MyVideo (German-counterpart to YouTube), Bigpoint Games, Anshe Chung Studios and several other companies. They also founded the startup studio Rocket Internet. They invested in Facebook in 2008, after selling StudiVZ to the Holtzbrinck Group.
