Top 10 Richest Guys in the World Wide Web
1 year, 5 months ago by Jeff.
Larry Page
Co-founded Google with Sergey Brin, Larry Page is considered as one of the wealthiest in Forbes with a personal wealth of US$17.5 billion in 2010.
Sergey Brin
Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin, or mostly known as Sergey Brin, co-founded Google with Larry Page. Along with Larry Page, Sergey Brin is also one of Forbes richest person in the world with a personal wealth of US$17.5 billion in 2010.
Mark Elliot Zuckerberg
Founder of Facebook, Zuckerberg is considered today as the youngest billionaire in the world, with a net worth of US$4 billion in 2010 which was because of his 24% share of Facebook. According to Zuckerberg, he founded Facebook while still attending Harvard.
David Filo
Co-founder of the popular Yahoo! search engine. Together with co-founder Jerry Yang, Yahoo! was first known as “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web” until it was renamed as Yahoo!.
Jerry Yang
Together with David Filo, Jerry Yang co-founded Yahoo!. Together with Filo, Yang also co-founded “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web” which was later renamed as Yahoo!.
Chad Meredith Hurley
Co-founder of one of the most popular video sharing website in World Wide Web, Youtube. Before Youtube, Hurley, along with other co-founders, first worked in PayPal. It was also Hurley that gave the idea for the tagging and video sharing aspects of YouTube.
Steve Chen
Along with Hurley, Chen was also one of the main founders of YouTube. Like Hurley, Chen first worked in PayPal until the group started YouTube.
Jawed Karim
Along with Hurley and Chen, Karim first worked in PayPal until the three co-founded YouTube. According to our Web Design Philippines Insider, Karim was also the main contributor of PayPal’s real-time anti-fraud system.
Blake Aaron Ross
Founder of Mozilla Firefox web browser. Together with Dave Hyatt, Ross started this project while under contract with Mozilla Foundation. He was also one of the developers that developed Spread Firefox with Asa Dotzler.
Jeff Bezos
Founder of Amazon.com. Before Amazon.com, it was first known as Cadabra.com when it was introduced in 1995. It started as an online bookstore until it expanded to sell many items from DVDs and CDs, to MP3 downloads, electronics, video games, and many more. Eventually, the name was changed to Amazon.com.
Pierre Morad Omidyar
Founder of eBay auction site. According to our Web Design Philippines Insider, the first item sold in eBay was a broken laser pointer for $14.83.
