Forbes has released their annual list of the world’s billionaires and Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs is ranked 110th with $8.3 billion.
The Top 10 and selected others of interest:
(Rank. Name, Net Worth, Age, Source, Country of Citizenship)
1. Carlos Slim Helu & family, $74 B, 71, telecom, Mexico
2. Bill Gates, $56 B, 55, Microsoft, United States
3. Warren Buffett, $50 B, 80, Berkshire Hathaway, United States
4. Bernard Arnault, $41 B, 62 LVMH, France
5. Larry Ellison, $39.5 B, 66, Oracle, United States
6. Lakshmi Mittal, $31.1 B, 60, Steel, India
7. Amancio Ortega, $31 B, 74, Zara, Spain
8. Eike Batista, $30 B, 54, mining/oil, Brazil
9. Mukesh Ambani, $27 B, 53, petrochemicals/oil/gas, India
10. Christy Walton & family, $26.5 B, 56, Walmart, United States
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24. Sergey Brin, $19.8 B, 37, Google, United States
24. Larry Page, $19.8 B, 37, Google, United States
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30. Jeff Bezos, $18.1 B, 47, Amazon, United States
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44. Michael Dell, $14.6 B, 46, Dell, United States
46. Steve Ballmer, $14.5 B, 54, Microsoft, United States
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52. Mark Zuckerberg, $13.5 B, 26, Facebook, United States
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57. Paul Allen, $13 B, 58, Microsoft/investments, United States
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110. Steve Jobs, $8.3 B, 56, Apple/Pixar, United States: In March the Apple founder made a surprise appearance at the unveiling of his iPad 2, after taking medical leave in January. Insanely creative Apple chief transforms a multibillion-dollar industry every few years. First, personal computers with Apple II, Macintosh; then film with Pixar; music (iTunes), mobile (iPhone). Now iPad is treated as messiah tablet, savior for publishing industry. Apple still sells computers, but twice as much revenue now comes from music distribution and hand-held devices. Shot past long-time rival Microsoft as world’s most valuable tech company in May. Shares of Apple surged more than 80% over the last year. Still, the majority of Job’s fortune comes from Disney; as largest shareholder he owns about $4.4 billion of stock. Reed College dropout founded Apple 1976.
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122. Rupert Murdoch, $7.6 B, 79, News Corp., United States
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136. Eric Schmidt, $7 B, 55, Google, United States
Forbes’ full list is here.
MacDailyNews Take: For proof that life on this rock isn’t fair, look no further than the fact that #2, #44, #46, and #57 have amassed, and we mean amassed, more filthy lucre than Steve Jobs, without whom they wouldn’t be remotely near this list.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “gb” for the heads up.]
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