Richest Tech Billionaires
Technology, a word, a lifestyle, and necessity without which, life is impossible to imagine.
Richest Tech Billionaires
By
Sana Hassan
Technology, a word, a lifestyle, and necessity without which, life is impossible to imagine. Modern man has always welcomed the innovative ideas with open arms and adapted to them rather quickly. Today, we see that these ideas making billionaires out of people. If you pay close attention, most of them come from the Tech background. So, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that tech has produced more riches than anything else, but having a dream is a necessity. The determination to follow the dream has always proved to be fruitful.
Jeff Bezos
The CEO and founder of amazon.com, Bezos, is the first person in three decades to surpass the net worth of 130 billion, quotes Forbes. The idea that was born in his garage in Seattle in 1994, is now flourishing with each day. The website that was originally an online bookstore now sells and markets all kinds of products worldwide. Apart from this, he is interested in Space-Tech, his company Blue Origin is human space flight startup. He quotes “There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.”
Bill Gates
The co-founder of the largest software company, Bill Gates has stayed on the list for a very long time. The born genius, obsessed about computers drop out of Harvard to start his own company. Drop out proved fruitful, and company become a huge success, making him and his partner billionaires. Microsoft was not the end to him in later years, the Windows operating system was launched which proved to be another milestone in Gate’s career. His success is quoted in his words that “To win big, you sometimes have to take big risks.
Mark Zuckerberg
Also known to the world as a young billionaire, Mark launched the Facebook while he was still in the college. The original raw idea that led to Facebook was widely term as inappropriate. But he redeemed himself by settling lawsuits against him and launched a more sophisticated version of it. The features offered by Facebook improved over time and were molded according to modern needs. To date, it has remained the largest social media network, despite the introduction of various other applications. He quotes that “By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.”
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
The partnership that resulted in the development of the greatest and the mighty search engine ‘Google’. Today the assignments, research, or presentation are not possible without it. As Ph.D. students, they understood the importance of citation in any paper. Thus, Page combined his ideas with the fellow Ph.D.
student, Sergey Brin and used their dormitory as a start-up. They analyzed the connection of one web page to another and came up with a superior search algorithm. Self-made billionaire Larry quotes the importance of idea “You don’t need to have a 100 person company to develop that idea.”