I always have wondered who are the richest Internet Entrepeneurs in the World? Have you wondered the same? I always thought Ewen Chia was the richest Internet Entpreneur in the World as he is often called the ‘World’s #1 Super Affiliate’ but I was totally wrong! Well, you have to wonder who created Facebook or Google? Hasn’t this question arisen to you one day or another? These 2 sites are basically the biggest ones on the Web.
Let’s see who are behind these sites…most of these people are over the age of 30! In the future, I will try to have a post titled ‘ Top 20 Richest Internet Entrepreneurs Below The Age Of 30! You will see that these guys make money online the ‘ BIG’ way!
Here is the list of the top 20 Richest Internet Entrepreneurs:
1. Larry Page & Sergey Brin & Eric Schmidt (Co Founded Google)
Website: Google
Nationality: Us
Year Website Launched: 1998
Net Worth: 18,5 Billions $
2. Jeff Bezos
Website: Amazon (Founded Amazon in a Seattle garage)
Nationality: Us
Year Website Launched: 1998
Net Worth: $12.3 Billlion
3. Masayoshi Son
Website: Softbank (Controls Japanese internet and telecom firm SoftBank)
Nationality: Japan
Year Website Launched: 2001
Net Worth: $5.9 Billlion
4. Pierre Omidyar
Website: Ebay (French-born immigrant launched online auction site in 1995)
Nationality: US
Year Website Launched: 1995
Net Worth: $5.2 Billlion
5. Hiroshi Mikitani
Website: Rakuten (Runs Japan’s leading online shopping mall)
Nationality: Japan
Year Website Launched: 1997
Net Worth: $4.8 Billlion
6. Charles Schwab
Website: Charles Schwab (Brought online investing to the masses)
Nationality: US
Year Website Launched: 1996
Net Worth: $4.7 Billlion
7. Mark Zuckerberg
Website: Facebook (Founded Facebook in early 2004 while at Harvard university)
Nationality: US
Year Website Launched: 2004
Net Worth: $4.7 Billlion
8. Ma Huateng
Website: Tencent (Runs China’s most popular online chat service)
Nationality: China
Year Website Launched: 1998
Net Worth: $3.6 Billlion
9. Robin Li
Website: Baidu (Co-founded China’s most popular search site Baidu)
Nationality: China
Year Website Launched: 1998
Net Worth: $3.6 Billlion
10. David Flio & Jeremy Yang
Website: Yahoo (Co-founded Yahoo)
Nationality: US
Year Website Launched: 1995
Net Worth: $3.5 Billlion
11. Mark Cuban
Website: Broadcast.com (Former bar tender who sold internet video website to Yahoo for 5.7bn). Tom Wagner also co-founded broadcast.com with Tom Wagner.
Nationality: US
Year Website Launched: 1995
Net Worth: $2.6 Billlion
12. William Ding
Website: NeatEase.com (Founded China’s no.2 online game company. Once China’s richest man)
Nationality: China
Year Website Launched: 1997
Net Worth: $2.2 Billlion
13. Shi Yuzhu
Website: Giant Interactive (Founded China’s no.2 online game company. Once China’s richest man)
Nationality: China
Year Website Launched: 2005
Net Worth: $1.6 Billlion
14. Yoshikazu Tanaka
Website: Gree (Founded the second most popular social networking site in Japan)
Nationality: Japan
Year Website Launched: 2004
Net Worth: $1.4 Billlion
15. Peter Thiel
Website: Paypal (The first outside investor in Facebook 2004. He also co-founded paypal)
Nationality: US
Year Website Launched: 1998
Net Worth: $1.3 Billlion
16. Marc Benioff
Website: SalesForce (Held posts at Oracle and Apple before launching Salesforce.com)
Nationality: US
Year Website Launched: 1999
Net Worth: $1.3 Billlion
17. Niklas Zennstrom
Website: Skype (Co Founded Skype With Janus Friis)
Nationality: Sweden
Year Website Launched: 2003
Net Worth: $1.3 Billlion
18. Jack Ma
Website: Alibaba (Founder, chairman and chief executive of internet business Alibaba)
Nationality: China
Year Website Launched: 1999
Net Worth: $1.2 Billlion
19. Stephen Case
Website: Aol (Former Pizza Hut store manager who co-founded AOL)
Nationality: US
Year Website Launched: 1995
Net Worth: $1.1 Billlion
20. Simon Nixon
Website: MoneySuperMarket (the man behind the Moneysupermarket Group)
Nationality: UK
Year Website Launched: 2000
Net Worth: $680 Million
What’s really interesting is the amount of opportunity there is outside the U.S. Many of these people on the list have tapped into their own local markets (China & Japan); there are still many, many emerging countries that are just now getting on board with a lot of web based activity. It may be a hurdle reaching these markets but it definitely looks like it’s extremely viable.
Murray, I definitely agree! I think the Internet is just growing and more and more countries are just starting to use it more frequently! I am not surprised to see people from China and Japan at the top!
Great list. I’ll like to be on the list soon and i’m really working towards it. Thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing this list. I wish one day i could be in this list and the day comes very soon
Damn, I think I need to be on this list… I’ll get there. It really gives me motivation to see all these different people and the things they have done.
Look at all the Eastern influence. Makes you want to say WOW! There’s so much opportunity to make big bucks online and be wealthier than one can ever imagine without even coming close to these big dogs.
I intend to live my life on my terms.
Once again, another great article bro.
Talk at ya later, keep up the good work
Tom
Love to see an Indian in the list.