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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is No.35 richest American
Forbes list of the 400 richest people in America says so.
Bill Gates continues to stay on the top with an estimated $54 Billion of wealth. Second on the list was Berkshire Hathaway CEO and Gates pal Warren Buffett with $45 billion. Rounding out the top three was Oracle CEO Larry Ellison with $27 billion.
Tied at No. 11 on the list were Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin with net worths of $15 billion. They were followed by Dell CEO Michael Dell (No. 15; $14 billion), Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (No. 16; $13.1 billion), Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen (No. 17; $ 12.7 billion), and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (No. 18; $12.6 billion).
The intrigue comes much lower on the list, where Zuckerberg, who didn’t even qualify as a billionaire last year, ranked higher than Jobs, who founded Apple some eight years before Zuckerberg was even born. Ranked at No. 35, Zuckerberg ($6.9 billion) got a boost last year from a $200 million infusion of cash in his social-networking titan. Despite Apple recently passing Microsoft in valuation, the majority of Jobs’ (No. 42; $6.1 billion) net worth comes from his shares in Disney, which bought his Pixar animation studio in 2006 for $7.4 billion.
Others on the top 100 were eBay founder Pierre Omidyar (No. 47; $5.5 billion), Google CEO Eric Schmidt (No. 48; $5.4 billion), EchoStar CEO Charles Ergen (No. 51; $5.2 billion), and Intel co-founder Gordon Moore (No. 88; $3.5 billion).
