Unknown Facts About 15 Richest Tech Titans
#3 & 4 Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Net worth: $18.7 billion each
Company: Google (founders of the company)
“We have a mantra: don’t be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for everyone. So I think if we were known for hat, it would be a wonderful thing.” – Larry Page.
“Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.” Sergy Brin.
Though Google and Microsoft and Google and Apple are always at loggerheads, we do not truly find these people doing something like www.scroggled.com.
#2 Larry Ellison
Net worth: $36 billion
Company: Oracle (CEO)
"I think the applications space will be diverse and complex five years from now,”
Larry Ellison is the co-founder and CEO of Oracle. Ellison was inspired by the paper written by Edgar F. Codd on relational database systems called "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks". In 1977, he founded Software Development Laboratories (SDL). In 1979, the company was renamed Relational Software Inc., later renamed Oracle after the flagship product Oracle database.
#1 Bill Gates
Net worth: $61 billion
Company: Microsoft (founder)
“The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.”
Since leaving day-to-day operations at Microsoft (where he remains Chairman), Gates continues his philanthropy and, among other projects, purchased the video rights to the Messenger Lectures series called The Character of Physical Law, given at Cornell University by Richard Feynman in 1964 and recorded by the BBC. The videos are available online to the public at Microsoft's Project Tuva.
In April 2010, Gates was invited to visit and speak at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he asked the students to take on the hard problems of the world in their futures.
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