Seven Out of the 15 Richest Americans Are Technology Billionaires

Bill Gates remains the wealthiest American for the thirteenth year in a row

Sep. 23, 2006 04:15 PM

Steve Ballmer, who after all is a "mere" executive, not a founder like the rest of them, comes in at number fifteen in the newly-released Forbes 400 Richest Americans list. The list confirms the hugely dominant role played by technology in creating billionaires in the USA: no fewer than seven out of the fifteen richest Americans derived their personal wealth from technology.

Here are the seven:

No .1 –$53 Billion: Bill Gates
No.4 – $19.5 Billion: Larry Ellison
No.5 – $16 Billion: Paul Allen
No.9 – $15.5 Billion: Michael Dell
No.12 – $14.1 Billion: Sergey Brin
No.13 – $14.0 Billion: Larry Page
No.15 – $13.6 Billion Steve Ballmer

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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, of the International Virtualization Conference & Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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