5 Richest People in the 2017 Technology World, Anyone?
- Bill gates
Bill Gates is the founder of a worldwide software company, Microsoft. In 1975, Gates chose to drop out of Harvard University and set up Microsoft along with Paul Allen.
Genius and persistence in building Microsoft makes Gates become the richest man in the world for four consecutive years, ie from 2013 to 2017. His wealth figure now reached US $ 86 billion or equivalent to Rp 1,145.53 trillion.
Besides being rich, Gates and his wife Melinda are known to be very generous. Both of them founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation who donated their wealth to humanity.
- Jeff bezos
The 2nd richest man from the tech world is Jeff Bezos. It has a network of giants e-Commerce in the world, Amazon. Bezos is now 53 years old with a wealth of US $ 72.8 billion or equivalent to Rp 970.6 trillion.
Bezos founded Amazon in July 1994 in Bellevue, Washington, USA. At that time, he named his company by the name of Cadabra, then replace it with Amazon, similar to the name of the largest river in the world.
A few decades later, Amazon.com became the largest multinational e-commerce company in the world. In addition to operating in the United States, Amazon's retail web services are available in Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Japan and China.
- Mark zuckerberg
Young, rich, and influential. Maybe it's the right three words to describe Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. His name included in the list of richest people in the world version of Forbes.
Now, 32-year-old man was recorded to have wealth with a value of US $ 56 billion or equivalent to Rp 746.6 trillion. Like Gates, Zuckerberg is also a genius who dropped out of the Harvard campus.
- Larry ellison
Larry Ellison is one of the founders of Oracle Corporation database software company. Forbes noted, Ellison's wealth now reaches US $ 52.2 billion or equivalent to Rp 696 trillion.
- Larry page
The man with the real name of Lawrence Edward Page was one of the founders of the internet search engine Google in 1998.
Later, he served as CEO of Alphabet, Google's parent company, replacing Eric Schmidt. Page richness value currently reaches US $ 42.4 billion or equivalent to Rp 565 trillion.
Reference : forbes, liputan6.com
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