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Gates, Ellison Top Billionaires From Tech Industry
Seventeen tech-industry executives made the new Forbes list of billionaires, led by Bill Gates in the #2 spot and Larry Ellison in the #6 spot. Can it be true that Facebook parvenu Mark Zuckerberg outranks Apple icon Steve Jobs? Here's a list of those 17 along with their ranks and estimated net worths.Seventeen tech-industry executives made the new Forbes list of billionaires, led by Bill Gates in the #2 spot and Larry Ellison in the #6 spot. Can it be true that Facebook parvenu Mark Zuckerberg outranks Apple icon Steve Jobs? Here's a list of those 17 along with their ranks and estimated net worths.The Forbes feature includes lots of details and is cut in multiple ways. I combed through the first 400 and came up with this sublist from the tech business (and no, Facebook's Zuckerberg doesn't outrank Jobs-but he's getting there):
#2 Bill Gates $53 billion (Microsoft)
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#6 Larry Ellison $28 billion (Oracle)
#24 Sergey Brin $17.5 billion (Google)
#24 Larry Page $17.5 billion (Google)
#33 Steve Ballmer $14.5 billion (Microsoft)
#37 Paul Allen $13.5 billion (Microsoft)
#37 Michael Dell $13.5 billion (Dell)
#43 Jeff Bezos $12.3 billion (Amazon)
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#105 James Goodnight $6.9 billion (SAS)
#117 Eric Schmidt $6.3 billion (Google)
#136 Steve Jobs $5.5 billion (Apple)
#148 Pierre Omidyar $5.2 billion (eBay)
#154 Hasso Plattner $5.0 billion (SAP)
#212 Mark Zuckerberg $4.0 billion (Facebook)
#237 Gordon Moore $3.8 billion (Intel)
#287 Ross Perot $3.3 billion (EDS, Perot Systems)
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