#2 Larry Page

Net Worth, $17.5 Billion

This Google co-founder and CEO’s personal wealth is estimated to be $17.5 billion, ranking him #13 on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans.

After enrolling in a computer science Ph.D. program at Stanford University, Page was in search of a dissertation theme and considered exploring the mathematical properties of the World Wide Web, understanding its link structure as a huge graph. His supervisor Terry Winograd encouraged him to pursue this idea, which Page later recalled as "the best advice I ever got."

Sergey Brin and Page originally met in March 1995 during a spring orientation of new Ph.D. candidates. Brin, who had already been in the program for two years, was assigned to show some students, including Page, around campus, and they later became friends.

To convert the backlink data gathered by BackRub's web crawler into a measure of importance for a given web page, Brin and Page developed the PageRank algorithm, and realized that it could be used to build a search engine far superior to existing ones, in August 1996, the initial version of Google made available.

#1 Jeff Bezos

Net Worth, $20.2 Billion

Topping this list is the amazon.com founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos. With net worth of more than $20.2 billion, he is the richest internet entrepreneur in the world. He owns 20 percent of this online sales company, and thanks to Amazon’s incredible growth, his net worth jumped over 50 percent. He’s ranked #11 in Forbes 400 list of richest Americans.

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