In this era, the IT industry is one of the most profitable industries in the world, and many people are getting rich from this field.
At one time, Bill Gates was the only rich person in the world of technology included in the list of the world’s richest people. But now, if you flip through the list, the statistics show something else.
The richest people in the world are all my IT!
A review of the list of the 400 new richest people in the world and America, which is published every year by Forbes, shows that among the 400 richest Americans, 53 of them are in the technology industry, and five of the top 10 richest people in the list are the rich of the technology world.
Bill Gates, the founder of the world’s software giant, Microsoft
Bill Gates’s net worth is now 87.2 billion dollars. Many years ago, in interesting news about Bill Gates’ wealth, it was stated that if he drops a thousand dollars on the ground, he will certainly not bend down to pick it up because his income is something like $250 per second, which in a short time of 4 seconds, bending down and picking up the money will make up for the lost money!
Naturally, Bill Gates ranks first in the list of the ten richest people in the technology industry.
Jeff Bezos got rich with Amazon
When Amazon announced its second-quarter earnings, the results were surprising. Amazon’s excellent performance caused Amazon’s stock price to rise 64% over a year ago, adding $16.5 billion to Jeff Bezos’ fortune.
This wealth made the founder of Amazon the highest-income person on the list of 400 billionaires in the world in 2015 and the third richest person in the technology industry in America. The increase in Amazon’s stock, initially reaching 20%, made this online retailer surpass the largest physical store in America, Wal-Mart.
In the first days of this stock increase, Jeff Bezos added 8 billion dollars to his wealth due to the possession of 83 million shares of this company, which was enough to put him on the list of the top 200 richest people in the world.
Amazon’s success was much higher than the predictions of analysts such as Thomson Reuters, and many consider it the result of paying attention to cloud computing services, whose revenue reached $1.82 billion this quarter. This means 81% growth compared to the previous year.
The announcement of presence in new markets such as India also helped increase the optimism for this online retailer.
Amazon’s sales in North America alone increased by 26% compared to the previous year, reaching 13.79 billion dollars. Of course, the company’s sales growth worldwide has been announced at 3%. Amazon predicts the company’s sales in the next financial quarter will be between 23.5 and 25.5 billion dollars.
Such success put Jeff Bezos above Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page in terms of wealth.
Larry Ellison, Regressive Rich
Larry Ellison was more unlucky than Bill Gates. In March 2015, he had a fortune of 54 billion dollars, but his wealth has now reached 47.5 billion dollars with a drop of 6.5 billion dollars.
Larry Ellison stepped down as CEO of Oracle two years ago, but he is still considered one of the strongest decision-makers in the company he founded. He is third (after Warren Buffett) on the list of the 400 richest people in America and the second richest person in the technology industry.
Zuckerberg is the fifth-richest American.
31-year-old Mark Zuckerberg had a fortune of 17 billion dollars in 2011, but now his wealth has reached 62.8 billion dollars. The CEO of Facebook has increased his wealth by 3.6 billion dollars since last year and, for the first time, entered the list of the top 5 richest people in America, standing fifth place in this list.
Zuckerberg is the third richest person in the world of technology. In August, the number of Facebook users reached one billion. The purchase of the augmented reality startup OCULUS in the last two years and the announcement that this company’s Rift headsets entered the market in early 2016 are some of the reasons for the growth of the stock and the success of Zuckerberg’s 3.6 billion dollars.
Bill Gates was perhaps the most famous person in this field, having reached an extraordinary fortune of 87 billion dollars. His name will remain forever, but apart from him, there are still other people who are busy making huge profits in this industry—profits that even the printing industry and printing money will not achieve!!
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