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| The internet has created some of the world's youngest billionaires, possibly in the shortest possible time scale, ever. | The internet has created some of the world's youngest billionaires, possibly in the shortest possible time scale, ever. | |||||||
| The richest are Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the pair who set up Google in the late 1990s. They went from PhD students to (paper) billionaires in about five years. | The richest are Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the pair who set up Google in the late 1990s. They went from PhD students to (paper) billionaires in about five years. | |||||||
| The youngest is 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, founder of social networking site Facebook, who has returned to the billionaire list in 2010 after dropping out in 2009 amid the economic downturn. | The youngest is 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, founder of social networking site Facebook, who has returned to the billionaire list in 2010 after dropping out in 2009 amid the economic downturn. | |||||||
| As part of SuperPower - a season of programmes exploring the power of the internet - BBC News lists the top 26 richest internet entrepreneurs according to the latest Forbes ranking, released this week. | As part of SuperPower - a season of programmes exploring the power of the internet - BBC News lists the top 26 richest internet entrepreneurs according to the latest Forbes ranking, released this week. | |||||||
rel="stylesheet" href="/nol/shared/spl/hi/sci_nat/10/internet_billionaires/css/style.css" type="text/css" /> | Name | Age | Comment | Worth (bn) | Website | Nationality | Larry Page37Co-founded Google17.5USSergey Brin36Co-founded Google17.5USJeff Bezos46Founded Amazon in a Seattle garage12.3USEric Schmidt54Google's grown-up chief executive6.3USMasayoshi Son52Controls Japanese internet and telecom firm SoftBank5.9JapanPierre Omidyar42French-born immigrant launched online auction site in 19955.2USHiroshi Mikitani45Runs Japan's leading online shopping mall4.8JapanCharles Schwab72Brought online investing to the masses4.7USMark Zuckerberg25Founded Facebook in early 2004 while at Harvard university4.0USMa Huateng38Runs China's most popular online chat service3.6ChinaRobin Li41Co-founded China's most popular search site Baidu3.5ChinaMark Cuban51Former bar tender who sold internet video website to Yahoo for 5.7bn2.4USJeffrey Skoll45Ebay's first president and full-time employee. Now a film producer2.4CanadaWilliam Ding38Founded China's no.2 online game company. Once China's richest man2.2ChinaAndreas von Bechtolsheim54His initial $100,000 stake in Google made him a billionaire2.0GermanyDavid Cheriton58Stanford professor who introduced Google's co founders to each other1.6CanadaShi Yuzhu47Founder of Giant Interactive, one of China's most successful online game companies1.6ChinaYoshikazu Tanaka33Founded the second most popular social networking site in Japan - Gree1.4JapanDavid Filo43Met Yahoo co-founder Yang at Stanford University1.4USMargaret Whitman53Former eBay chief, now running for California govenor1.3USJerry Yang41Turned internet directory project into Yahoo portal1.3USMarc Benioff45Held posts at Oracle and Apple before launching Salesforce.com1.3USTodd Wagner49Co-founded broadcast.com with friend Mark Cuban1.2USPeter Thiel42The first outside investor in Facebook 2004. He also co-founded paypal1.2USJack Ma45Founder, chairman and chief executive of internet business Alibaba1.2ChinaStephen Case51Former Pizza Hut store manager who co-founded AOL1.1US | ||
| Name | Age | Comment | Worth (bn) | Website | Nationality | Larry Page37Co-founded Google17.5USSergey Brin36Co-founded Google17.5USJeff Bezos46Founded Amazon in a Seattle garage12.3USEric Schmidt54Google's grown-up chief executive6.3USMasayoshi Son52Controls Japanese internet and telecom firm SoftBank5.9JapanPierre Omidyar42French-born immigrant launched online auction site in 19955.2USHiroshi Mikitani45Runs Japan's leading online shopping mall4.8JapanCharles Schwab72Brought online investing to the masses4.7USMark Zuckerberg25Founded Facebook in early 2004 while at Harvard university4.0USMa Huateng38Runs China's most popular online chat service3.6ChinaRobin Li41Co-founded China's most popular search site Baidu3.5ChinaMark Cuban51Former bar tender who sold internet video website to Yahoo for 5.7bn2.4USJeffrey Skoll45Ebay's first president and full-time employee. Now a film producer2.4CanadaWilliam Ding38Founded China's no.2 online game company. Once China's richest man2.2ChinaAndreas von Bechtolsheim54His initial $100,000 stake in Google made him a billionaire2.0GermanyDavid Cheriton58Stanford professor who introduced Google's co founders to each other1.6CanadaShi Yuzhu47Founder of Giant Interactive, one of China's most successful online game companies1.6ChinaYoshikazu Tanaka33Founded the second most popular social networking site in Japan - Gree1.4JapanDavid Filo43Met Yahoo co-founder Yang at Stanford University1.4USMargaret Whitman53Former eBay chief, now running for California govenor1.3USJerry Yang41Turned internet directory project into Yahoo portal1.3USMarc Benioff45Held posts at Oracle and Apple before launching Salesforce.com1.3USTodd Wagner49Co-founded broadcast.com with friend Mark Cuban1.2USPeter Thiel42The first outside investor in Facebook 2004. He also co-founded paypal1.2USJack Ma45Founder, chairman and chief executive of internet business Alibaba1.2ChinaStephen Case51Former Pizza Hut store manager who co-founded AOL1.1US |