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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. | ||||||||||||||
| Name | Age | Comment | Worth (billions of US | Website | Nationality | Larry Page37Co-founded | | Name | Age | Comment | Worth (billions of US $) | Website | Nationality | PageLarry Page37Co-founded Google17.5GoogleUSBrinSergey Brin36Co-founded Google17.5GoogleUSBezosJeff Bezos46Founded Amazon in a Seattle garage12.3AmazonUSSchmidtEric Schmidt54Google's grown-up chief executive6.3GoogleUSSonMasayoshi Son52Controls Japanese internet and telecom firm SoftBank5.9SoftbankJapanOmidyarPierre Omidyar42French-born immigrant launched online auction site in 19955.2EbayUSMikitaniHiroshi Mikitani45Runs Japan's leading online shopping mall4.8RakutenJapanSchwabCharles Schwab72Brought online investing to the masses4.7SchwabUSZuckerbergMark Zuckerberg25Founded Facebook in early 2004 while at Harvard university4.0FacebookUSHuatengMa Huateng38Runs China's most popular online chat service3.6TencentChinaLiRobin Li41Co-founded China's most popular search site Baidu3.5BaiduChinaCubanMark Cuban51Former bar tender who sold internet video website to Yahoo for 5.7bn2.4BroadcastUSSkollJeffrey Skoll45Ebay's first president and full-time employee. Now a film producer2.4EbayCanadaDingWilliam Ding38Founded China's no.2 online game company. Once China's richest man2.2NeteaseChinaBechtolsheimAndreas von Bechtolsheim54His initial $100,000 stake in Google made him a billionaire2.0GoogleGermanyCheritonDavid Cheriton58Stanford professor who introduced Google's co founders to each other1.6GoogleCanadaYuzhuShi Yuzhu47Founder of Giant Interactive, one of China's most successful online game companies1.6GiantChinaTanakaYoshikazu Tanaka33Founded the second most popular social networking site in Japan - Gree1.4GreeJapanFiloDavid Filo43Met Yahoo co-founder Yang at Stanford University1.4YahooUSWhitmanMargaret Whitman53Former eBay chief, now running for California govenor1.3EbayUSYangJerry Yang41Turned internet directory project into Yahoo portal1.3YahooUSBenioffMarc Benioff45Held posts at Oracle and Apple before launching Salesforce.com1.3SalesforceUSWagnerTodd Wagner49Co-founded broadcast.com with friend Mark Cuban1.2BroadcastUSThielPeter Thiel42The first outside investor in Facebook 2004. He also co-founded paypal1.2PaypalUSMaJack Ma45Founder, chairman and chief executive of internet business Alibaba1.2AlibabaChinaCaseStephen Case51Former Pizza Hut store manager who co-founded AOL1.1AolUS |