Gates, Brin & Page: Top 5 Richest People In Forbes 400

Sep 21, 2007 at 8:03am ET by Barry Schwartz

Forbes released its latest The Forbes 400 list, and among the top ten richest Americans are Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Google’s Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

Gates topped the list at number one with a net worth of $59.0 billion. Sergey Brin is listed at number five, with a net worth of $18.5 billion. Larry Page shares the number five slot with Sergey, with a net worth of $18.5 billion also.

Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO is number 48 with $6.5 billion in net worth.

Googler, Omid Kordestani, made the list at number 204 with $2.2 billion in net worth.

David Filo of Yahoo made the list at number 239 with $2.0 billion in net worth.

Yahoo’s Jerry Yang is also on the list at number 261 with $1.9 billion in net worth.

Google’s Kavitark Shriram made the list at number 271 with $1.8 billion in net worth.

Finally, IAC’s (Ask.com) Barry Diller is on the list at number 317 with $1.5 billion in net worth.

In summary, we have five Google Guys, two Yahoo guys, one from Microsoft and one from IAC.

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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Cohn, September 21st, 2007 at 9:22 am ET:

Hi Barry,

Both Brin and Page have been on the Forbes 400 previously.

rustybrick, September 21st, 2007 at 10:12 am ET:

Thanks. Fixed.

GroupScope, September 21st, 2007 at 12:39 pm ET:

I wanted to let you know about a cool application that was buried a couple of clicks deep on the Forbes site.

If you go here:
http://www.forbes.com/2007/09/18/billionaire-social-mapping-lists-richlist07-cx_jb_0920social_map.html

You’ll find an interactive relationship viewer that we (GroupScope, Inc.) created in a partnership with Forbes to show the affiliation networks of the list member alumni from Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale. It’s a really great interactive way to learn more about the list. Thought you might enjoy checking it out.

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