Internet Billionaires

[Ognir]

Oh vey, the chosen people, 0.002% of humanity, yet look at this list

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8562379.stm

SuperPower: Visualising the internet

The internet has created some of the world's youngest billionaires, possibly in the shortest possible time scale, ever.

The richest are Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the pair who set up Google in the late 1990s. They went from PhD students to (paper) billionaires in about five years.

The youngest is 25-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, founder of social networking site Facebook, who has returned to the billionaire list in 2010 after dropping out in 2009 amid the economic downturn.

As part of SuperPower - a season of programmes exploring the power of the internet - BBC News lists the top 26 richest internet entrepreneurs according to the latest Forbes ranking, released this week.

INTERNET BILLIONAIRES: The table can be re-ordered by clicking on any of the column headings    Name    Age    Comment    Worth (billions of US $)    Website    Nationality
page portrait    PageLarry Page    37    Co-founded Google    17.5    Googlegoogle logo    US
brin portrait    BrinSergey Brin    36    Co-founded Google    17.5    Googlegoogle logo    US
bezos portrait    BezosJeff Bezos    46    Founded Amazon in a Seattle garage    12.3    Amazonamazon logo    US
schmidt portrait    SchmidtEric Schmidt    54    Google's grown-up chief executive    6.3    Googlegoogle logo    US
son portrait    SonMasayoshi Son    52    Controls Japanese internet and telecom firm SoftBank    5.9    Softbanksoftbank logo    Japan
omidyar portrait    OmidyarPierre Omidyar    42    French-born immigrant launched online auction site in 1995    5.2    Ebayebay logo    US
mikitani portrait    MikitaniHiroshi Mikitani    45    Runs Japan's leading online shopping mall    4.8    Rakutenrakuten logo    Japan
schwab portrait    SchwabCharles Schwab    72    Brought online investing to the masses    4.7    Schwabschwab logo    US
zuckerberg portrait    ZuckerbergMark Zuckerberg    25    Founded Facebook in early 2004 while at Harvard university    4.0    Facebookfacebook logo    US
huateng portrait    HuatengMa Huateng    38    Runs China's most popular online chat service    3.6    Tencenttencent logo    China
li portrait    LiRobin Li    41    Co-founded China's most popular search site Baidu    3.5    Baidubaidu logo    China
cuban portrait    CubanMark Cuban    51    Former bar tender who sold internet video website to Yahoo for 5.7bn    2.4    Broadcastbroadcast.com logo    US
skoll portrait    SkollJeffrey Skoll    45    Ebay's first president and full-time employee. Now a film producer    2.4    Ebayebay logo    Canada
ding portrait    DingWilliam Ding    38    Founded China's no.2 online game company. Once China's richest man    2.2    Neteasenetease logo    China
bechtolsheim portrait    BechtolsheimAndreas von Bechtolsheim    54    His initial $100,000 stake in Google made him a billionaire    2.0    Googlegoogle logo    Germany
cheriton portrait    CheritonDavid Cheriton    58    Stanford professor who introduced Google's co founders to each other    1.6    Googlegoogle logo    Canada
yuzhu portrait    YuzhuShi Yuzhu    47    Founder of Giant Interactive, one of China's most successful online game companies    1.6    Giantgiant interactive logo    China
tanaka portrait    TanakaYoshikazu Tanaka    33    Founded the second most popular social networking site in Japan - Gree    1.4    Greegree logo    Japan
filo portrait    FiloDavid Filo    43    Met Yahoo co-founder Yang at Stanford University    1.4    Yahooyahoo logo    US
whitman portrait    WhitmanMargaret Whitman    53    Former eBay chief, now running for California govenor    1.3    Ebayebay logo    US
yang portrait    YangJerry Yang    41    Turned internet directory project into Yahoo portal    1.3    Yahooyahoo logo    US
benioff portrait    BenioffMarc Benioff    45    Held posts at Oracle and Apple before launching Salesforce.com    1.3    Salesforcesalesforce.com logo    US
wagner portrait    WagnerTodd Wagner    49    Co-founded broadcast.com with friend Mark Cuban    1.2    Broadcastbroadcast.com logo    US
thiel portrait    ThielPeter Thiel    42    The first outside investor in Facebook 2004. He also co-founded paypal    1.2    Paypalpaypal logo    US
ma portrait    MaJack Ma    45    Founder, chairman and chief executive of internet business Alibaba    1.2    Alibabaalibaba logo    China
case portrait    CaseStephen Case    51    Former Pizza Hut store manager who co-founded AOL    1.1    Aolaol logo    US

[abduLMaria]

another way to look at this is from the perspective of the ethnicity of the venture capital firms.

just do a web search for "venture capital San Francisco" or "venture capital Silicon Valley".

mostly Jewish.

it's not because the entrepreneurs listed are smarter or more creative - it's because their projects got greenlighted by TPTB.

i got a small taste of this in some job interviews in 1994.  i was offered an audience with Michael Ovitz - the Jewish Hollywood super-agent - during a computer graphics interview.  (as if i was a singer or tap-dancer or something).  all i had to do was "swear allegiance" to the Zio-Tribe.  in that case the Zio-tribe approached me using the cloak of the CIA.  same people though.