Who are the richest Internet entrepreneurs of all time?
The Internet has made a lot of insanely smart/lucky/dedicated people, insanely wealthy. Since the dawn of the web, anyone with the right idea and a willingness to work hard has been able create a massive personal fortune.
Billion dollar companies have been born and built out of bedrooms, dorm rooms, cars, garages and pretty much every location imaginable. Internet entrepreneurs have come up with digital solutions for services in nearly every single brick-and-mortar industry.
Whether it’s new and innovative ways for people to connect with friends, share content, find results or market products, the richest Internet entrepreneurs have profited hugely from connecting consumers to the World Wide Web. These geeks have literally revolutionized the way business is carried out around the globe, or have changed the way we interact with each other on a daily basis.
In the process, the richest Internet entrepreneurs have earned billions of dollars, and the powers they wield socially, politically, and economically are astonishing.
#30: Jim Clark
Net Worth, $1 Billion
What do you get for being the founder of Netscape, Silicon Graphics and several other high profile internet companies? A billion dollar net worth and a wife who is 36 years younger and a former Victoria's Secret model. That's exactly the life that Jim Clark gets to live every day as the 30th richest internet entrepreneur in the world with wife Kristy Hinze.
#29: Yuri Milner
Net Worth, $1 Billion
Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner is the 29th richest internet entrepreneur with a net worth of $1 billion. Milner has successfully invested in dozens of companies, the two biggest being Facebook and Mail.ru.
#28: Jerry Yang
Net Worth, $1.15 Billion
Jerry Yang co-founded the search engine Yahoo! with David Filo while both were students at Stanford. The company went public and the two became instant billionaires. At the peak of Yahoo's stock price, both Yang and Filo were worth well over $10 billion. Today, Yahoo has lost ground and value to Google, leaving the founders with just over a billion dollars in net worth each.
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