7 Of The 10 Richest People in 2021 Who Are Rich Because of Technology

Recently Forbes released the top ten richest people in the world in 2021 which positioned Jeff Bezos , a businessman from the technology sector, with the most total wealth, US $ 177 billion.

Bezos is not the only technology sector businessman on the list of the 10 richest people in the world in 2021, there are six other figures who are in this sector. Here's the list:

1. Jeff Bezos US $ 177 Billion

Jeff Bezos is an entrepreneur who co-founded the technology company Amazon. His business is fairly successful and is now the richest person in the world according to Forbes.

On July 16, 1995, Bezos founded Amazon.com after the name of a river in South America. He started his business in the garage of the house and was assisted by several colleagues.

The site was founded with a pilot project selling books. Within 30 days the book was sold throughout the United States and 45 countries.

On February 3, 2021, he officially announced his resignation as CEO of Amazon, a company he raised for 27 years.

Even though he is no longer the CEO at Amazone. Now he is focusing on several of his companies, namely the Day 1 Fund, Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, and The Washington Post.

2. Elon Musk US $ 151 Billion

Elon Musk is the majority shareholder of Tesla and is a co-founder. He founded Tesla in February 2004.

Not only serving as CEO at Tesla, he also founded a space company called SpaceX in June 2002. Now SpaceX is active in various space projects, one of which is with NASA.

Later, Musk reportedly wants to build a city for his own company around the launch pad of the SpaceX rocket in southern Texas.

Now Elon Musk's total wealth reaches US $ 151 billion. The wealth he has is not far from Bezos.

3. Bill Gates US $ 124 Billion

Most of the people in the world know the name Bill Gates. He is a technology businessman who is the same as Bezos, starting his career in the garage of the house.

In 1975 he founded the Microsoft software company. Gates was born to a father who worked as a corporate attorney and his mother served on the board of directors of First Interstate BancSystems and the United Way.

Gates founded the company with his friend Paul Allen. In 1990 he successfully released an operating system for computers.

Now he does not only focus on technology, but now Gates has chosen to focus on climate change that threatens the Earth's population.

He also launched a book entitled How To Avoid a Climate Disaster. In that book, Gates tells the various threats to Earth's climate and how to solve them.

This is not the first time that Gates has entered the Forbes' world rich ranks. Based on the Forbes report, he was also included in the ranks of the world's richest people from 1996 to 2004.

4. Mark Zuckerberg US $ 97 Billion

Mark Zuckerberg is known as one of the founders of the largest social media platform, Facebook, which was founded in 2004. He co-founded Facebook with several friends while a student at Harvard University.

Not only developing a business for Facebook, he also bought several social media companies such as Instagram and WhatsApp. He acquired Instagram for US $ 1 billion in 2012, while WhatsApp was purchased in 2014.

Currently he is developing several applications.

5. Larry Ellison US $ 93 Billion

Larry Ellison is the co-founder and CEO of software company Oracle Corporation headquartered in Redwood Shores, California. The company sells software and database technology, cloud storage, and enterprise software.

In 2019, the company became the second largest revenue-generating software company in the world. Through the company Ellison also develops and builds database systems from mid-range software to office systems.

6. Larry Page US $ 91.5 Billion

Larry Page is the co-founder of the internet search engine Google. He became the Chief Executive Officer in April 2011. Page is the son of parents who have a background in computing.

He and his friend, Sergey Brin, built the Google search engine in 1998. Page and Brin met while attending Stanford University together.

In 1999 Google was growing rapidly and Page moved his office from a garage to an office area in Mountain View.

7. Sergey Brin US $ 89 Billion

Sergey Brin was Larry Page's colleague in founding the internet search engine Google. He rarely appears in the media and not many people know the background of the co-founder of Google.

According to Forbes, Google has come under fire in Australia earlier this year because, according to critics, Google is a search engine that undermines the country's media.