#7Billionaires
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Sergey Brin
Cofounder And Board Member, Google
$80.3B
Real Time Net Worth
as of 11/14/22
#12 in the world today
$107B
2022 Billionaires Net Worth
as of 4/5/22
• Sergey Brin stepped down as president of Alphabet, parent company of Google, in December 2019 but remains a controller shareholder and a board member.
• He cofounded Google with Larry Page in 1998 after the two met at Stanford University while studying for advanced degrees in computer science.
• Google went public in 2004 and began trading as Alphabet, a newly created parent company, in 2015.
• Brin was absent from public Alphabet events for much of 2019; he spent his time on Alphabet's moonshot research lab X.
• Brin is reportedly funding a high-tech airship project.
• Did you know
• The richest immigrant in America, Brin has been an outspoken critic of Trump's immigration ban.
• Brin moved to the U.S. from Russia when he was 6 years old in the wake of anti-Semitism against his family.
• In Their Own Words
• 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.
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Larry Ellison
CTO And Founder, Oracle
$101.4B
Real Time Net Worth
as of 11/14/22
#7 in the world today
$106B
2022 Billionaires Net Worth
as of 4/5/22
• Larry Ellison is chairman, chief technology officer and cofounder of software giant Oracle, of which he owns about 35%.
• He gave up the Oracle CEO role in 2014 after 37 years at the helm.
• Oracle has grown in part through steady acquisitions of software companies, the biggest of which was $28.3 billion for electronic health records company Cerner in 2021
• In 2020, Ellison moved permanently to the Hawaiian island Lanai, which he bought nearly all of in 2012 for $300 million.
• Ellison sat on the board of Tesla from December 2018 to August 2022. He still owns about 15 million shares in the electric carmaker
• Did you know
• Ellison never finished college. He started out building databases for the CIA.
• Daughter Megan has financed films such as Zero Dark Thirty and American Hustle; son David produced mainstream movies like The Terminator and Mission: Impossible.
• In Their Own Words
• When people start telling you that you're crazy, you just might be on to the most important innovation in your life.
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Steve Ballmer
Owner, Los Angeles Clippers
$80.4B
Real Time Net Worth
as of 11/14/22
#11 in the world today
$91.4B
2022 Billionaires Net Worth
as of 4/5/22
• Steve Ballmer is the high-wattage former CEO of Microsoft, who led the company from 2000 to 2014.
• He joined Microsoft in 1980 as employee No. 30 after dropping out of Stanford's MBA program.
• Ballmer oversaw Microsoft after the first dot-com crash and through efforts to catch up to Google in search capabilities and Apple in mobile phones.
• The same year he retired from Microsoft he bought the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion.
• He has ramped up his philanthropy since 2014, putting over $2 billion into a donor-advised fund, with a focus on lifting Americans out of poverty.
• In 2018, he invested $59 million in Social Solutions, which makes software for nonprofits and government agencies.
• Did you know
• Ballmer and Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates were classmates at Harvard.
• Ballmer created a website called USAFacts.org for people to look up and understand where the government is spending money.
• In Their Own Words
• Computer science is the operating system for all innovation.
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