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Top 10 Richest Internet Entrepreneurs

The internet is one of the biggest inventions in the world’s history. There a number of people who saw business opportunities in this field. Here is a list of the top 10 richest internet entrepreneurs.

10. Dustin Moskovitz

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Dustin is a 30 year old American entrepreneur who co-founded the website Facebook and four other guys. In 2008, he parted ways with Facebook to co-found with Asana. In 2011 Dustin was ranked by Forbes as one of the world’s youngest self-made billionaires on the basis of his 2.34% share in Facebook.

9. Hiroshi Mikitani

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Hiroshi is a 51 year old Japanese entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Rakuten. Rakuten is Japanese electronic commerce and Internet Company based in Tokyo, Japan. It is the largest e-commerce in Japan and among the world’s largest by sales.

8. Pierre Omidyar

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Pierre is a 47 year old French-Iranian-American entrepreneur Philanthropist, who is the founder and chairman of the eBay auction site. Apparently he became a billionaire at the age of 31 with eBays Initial Public Offering. Omidyar and his wife Pamela are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in 2004 in order to expand their efforts beyond nonprofits to include for-profits and public policy. Since 2010 Omidyar has been involved in online journalism as head of investigative reporting and public affairs news service Honolulu Civil Beat.

7. Eric Schmidt

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Eric is a 59 year old American software engineer, entrepreneur and executive chairman of Google. In 2013 Forbes ranked him as the 138th richest person in the world, with an estimated wealth of $8.3 billion.

6. Masayoshi Son

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Masayoshi is a 57 year old Japanese entrepreneur and founder and current chief executive officer Softbank, the chief executive officer of Softbank Mobile, and current chairman of Sprint Corporation. According to Forbes, his wealth is $9.1 billion as of 2013 he is the second richest man in Japan.

5. Robin Li

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Robin is a 46 year old Chinese internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of the Chinese engine Baidu and is ranked as the richest man in Mainland China with a net worth $12.321 billion as of December 2013.

4. Mark Zuckerberg

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Mark is a 30 year old American computer programmer, internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is best known as one of the co-founders of Facebook. In 2013, Mark became the chairman and chief executive of Facebook. His personal wealth, as of April 2014, is estimated to be $25.3 billion.

3. Sergy Brin

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Sergy is a 41 year old American business magnate and computer scientist who co-founded Google. As of June 2014, his personal wealth was estimated to be US$ 30 billion. Together, Brin and Page own about 16 percent of the company.

2. Larry Page

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Larry is a 41 year old American entrepreneur and computer scientists who is the co-founder and Google. Page succeeded Eric Schmidt as the chief executive officer of Google. As of 2014, Page’s personal wealth is estimated to be $32.3 billion, ranking him #19 on the Forbes list of billionaires.

1.Jeff Bezos

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Jeff is a 50 year old American entrepreneur and investor. He is a technology entrepreneur who has played a key role in the growth of e-commerce, as founder and CEO of Amazon.com, an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products. Under his guidance, Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and a top model for Internet sales.

 

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