Richest people in technology
506 billionaires worth a combined $5.823T, ranked by Forbes real-time estimates on October 11, 2026. Elon Musk leads at $1.004T.
Ranking
| Name | Rank | Net worth | Since 2026 list | Age | Source | Country |
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| Elon Musk | 1 | $1.004T | +$165B | 55 | Tesla, SpaceX | United States |
| Jeff Bezos | 2 | $381B | +$157B | 62 | Amazon | United States |
| Larry Page | 3 | $288B | +$30.9B | 53 | Google | United States |
| Michael Dell | 4 | $282B | +$141B | 61 | Dell Technologies | United States |
| Sergey Brin | 5 | $265B | +$28.0B | 53 | Google | United States |
| Mark Zuckerberg | 6 | $246B | +$24.5B | 42 | Facebook | United States |
| Jensen Huang | 7 | $198B | +$44.5B | 63 | Nvidia | United States |
| Larry Ellison | 8 | $184B | -$6.5B | 82 | Oracle | United States |
| Steve Ballmer | 9 | $165B | +$39.0B | 70 | Microsoft | United States |
| Bill Gates | 17 | $115B | +$6.7B | 70 | Microsoft | United States |
| Zhang Yiming | 24 | $84.0B | +$14.7B | 42 | TikTok | China |
| Ma Huateng | 44 | $46.0B | -$7.8B | 54 | Online games | China |
| Andreas von Bechtolsheim & family | 47 | $43.4B | +$15.5B | 71 | Google | Germany |
| William Ding | 48 | $41.7B | +$3.8B | 55 | Online games | China |
| Liang Wenfeng | 52 | $40.0B | +$28.5B | 41 | AI, hedge fund | China |
| Eduardo Saverin | 54 | $39.7B | +$3.8B | 44 | Facebook | Brazil |
| Eric Schmidt | 57 | $38.9B | +$3.4B | 71 | Google | United States |
| Melinda French Gates | 68 | $34.1B | +$3.8B | 62 | Microsoft | United States |
| Henry Samueli | 69 | $34.1B | +$3.3B | 72 | Semiconductors | United States |
| John Tu | 70 | $33.7B | +$16.3B | 85 | Computer hardware | United States |
| David Sun | 71 | $33.7B | +$16.3B | 74 | Computer hardware | United States |
| Jay Y. Lee | 73 | $32.2B | +$5.2B | 58 | Samsung | South Korea |
| Robert Pera | 78 | $29.6B | -$2.1B | 48 | Wireless networking | United States |
| Colin Huang | 81 | $28.7B | -$7.9B | 46 | E-commerce | China |
| MacKenzie Scott | 84 | $28.2B | -$420M | 56 | Amazon | United States |
| Shiv Nadar | 87 | $27.3B | -$3.6B | 81 | Software services | India |
| Chen Tianshi | 92 | $26.4B | +$5.7B | 41 | Semiconductors | China |
| Jack Ma | 94 | $26.2B | -$2.9B | 62 | E-commerce | China |
| Greg Brockman | 98 | $25.5B | n/a | 37 | OpenAI | United States |
| Brett Adcock | 111 | $23.4B | +$4.3B | 40 | Robots | United States |
| Alexander Karp | 121 | $22.1B | +$9.0B | 59 | Software firm | United States |
| Henry Nicholas III | 123 | $22.0B | +$1.4B | 67 | Semiconductors | United States |
| Rick Cohen & family | 124 | $21.8B | -$4.5B | 74 | Warehouse automation | United States |
| Lei Jun | 129 | $21.0B | -$6.9B | 56 | Smartphones, automobiles | China |
| Jan Koum | 147 | $18.8B | +$1.7B | 50 | WhatsApp | United States |
| Pierre Chen | 150 | $18.1B | +$7.6B | 70 | Electronics | Taiwan |
| Edwin Chen | 151 | $18.0B | $0M | 38 | Artificial intelligence | United States |
| John Collison | 154 | $17.5B | -$10M | 36 | Payment software | Ireland |
| Patrick Collison | 154 | $17.5B | -$10M | 38 | Payment software | Ireland |
| Laurene Powell Jobs | 178 | $15.6B | +$1.9B | 62 | Apple, Disney | United States |
| Christopher Olah | 181 | $15.5B | +$8.5B | 34 | Artificial intelligence | Canada |
| Daniela Amodei | 181 | $15.5B | +$8.5B | 39 | Artificial intelligence | United States |
| Dario Amodei | 181 | $15.5B | +$8.5B | 43 | Artificial intelligence | United States |
| Jack Clark | 181 | $15.5B | +$8.5B | 37 | Artificial intelligence | United States |
| Jared Kaplan | 181 | $15.5B | +$8.5B | 42 | Artificial intelligence | United States |
| Sam McCandlish | 181 | $15.5B | +$8.5B | 36 | Artificial intelligence | United States |
| Tom Brown | 181 | $15.5B | +$8.5B | 39 | Artificial intelligence | United States |
| Terry Gou | 195 | $15.2B | -$69M | 75 | Electronics | Taiwan |
| Barry Lam | 198 | $15.0B | +$840M | 77 | Electronics | Taiwan |
| George Kurtz | 199 | $15.0B | +$7.7B | 56 | Security software | United States |
| Zhou Qunfei & family | 203 | $14.7B | -$2.4B | n/a | Smartphone screens | Hong Kong |
| Tobi Lutke | 204 | $14.7B | +$4.0B | 46 | E-commerce | Canada |
| Zhu Yiming | 208 | $14.6B | +$12.2B | 54 | Semiconductors | China |
| Zhang Zhidong | 222 | $14.0B | -$2.1B | 54 | Online games | China |
| Hasso Plattner & family | 223 | $14.0B | +$176M | 82 | Software | Germany |
| Pierre Omidyar | 228 | $13.7B | +$1.9B | 59 | EBay, PayPal | United States |
| Mike Cannon-Brookes | 233 | $13.5B | +$6.1B | 46 | Software | Australia |
| Bruce Cheng | 235 | $13.5B | +$3.4B | 89 | Electronics | Taiwan |
| Jay Chaudhry | 239 | $13.3B | +$4.9B | 67 | Security software | United States |
| Scott Farquhar | 241 | $13.2B | +$6.2B | 46 | Software | Australia |
| Ken Xie & family | 246 | $13.0B | +$7.4B | 63 | Cybersecurity | United States |
| Tsai Ming-kai | 251 | $12.8B | +$6.8B | 76 | Semiconductors | Taiwan |
| Daniel Ek | 257 | $12.7B | +$2.8B | 43 | Spotify | Sweden |
| David Steward | 269 | $12.3B | -$141M | 75 | IT provider | United States |
| Joseph Tsai | 271 | $12.1B | -$1.2B | 62 | E-commerce | Canada |
| Lee Boo-jin | 276 | $12.0B | +$2.2B | 56 | Samsung | South Korea |
| Vinod Khosla | 280 | $11.8B | -$252M | 71 | Sun Microsystems, venture capital | United States |
| Hong Ra-hee | 285 | $11.8B | +$3.0B | 81 | Samsung | South Korea |
| James Goodnight | 291 | $11.7B | -$909M | 83 | Software | United States |
| Wang Laisheng | 293 | $11.6B | +$136M | 61 | Electronics components | Hong Kong |
| Brian Chesky | 299 | $11.5B | +$2.0B | 45 | Airbnb | United States |
| Martin Lorentzon | 303 | $11.5B | +$255M | 57 | Spotify | Sweden |
| Lee Seo-hyun | 306 | $11.4B | +$1.9B | 53 | Samsung | South Korea |
| Wang Laichun | 310 | $11.4B | +$84M | 59 | Electronics components | Hong Kong |
| Michael Xie | 316 | $11.3B | +$6.6B | 57 | Cybersecurity | United States |
| David Duffield | 321 | $11.1B | +$2.4B | 86 | Business software | United States |
| Nathan Blecharczyk | 331 | $10.9B | +$1.9B | 43 | Airbnb | United States |
| David Cheriton | 345 | $10.6B | +$831M | 75 | Google | Canada |
| Morris Chang | 349 | $10.4B | +$2.0B | 95 | Semiconductors | Taiwan |
| Matthew Prince | 351 | $10.4B | +$4.9B | 51 | Cybersecurity | United States |
| Adam Foroughi | 358 | $10.2B | -$5.6B | 46 | advertising technology | United States |
| Liu Debing | 360 | $10.2B | +$1.1B | 50 | AI | China |
| Judy Faulkner | 378 | $9.6B | +$1.8B | 83 | Healthcare software | United States |
| Jack Dangermond | 382 | $9.4B | -$4.9B | 81 | Mapping software | United States |
| Joe Gebbia | 397 | $9.2B | +$958M | 45 | Airbnb | United States |
| James Clark | 398 | $9.1B | +$1.9B | 82 | Netscape, investments | United States |
| Dustin Moskovitz | 406 | $9.0B | -$1.3B | 42 | Facebook | United States |
| Marc Benioff | 411 | $9.0B | +$997M | 62 | Business software | United States |
| Charles Simonyi | 425 | $8.8B | +$1.6B | 78 | Microsoft | United States |
| Yi Zheng | 432 | $8.7B | -$1.1B | 55 | Software | China |
| Lin Bin | 433 | $8.7B | -$2.6B | 58 | Smartphones | United States |
| Michael Federmann & family | 437 | $8.7B | -$1.4B | 83 | Defense, hotels | Israel |
| Leo KoGuan | 440 | $8.6B | -$108M | 71 | IT provider | United States |
| Min Kao & family | 445 | $8.5B | +$821M | 77 | Navigation equipment | United States |
| Otto Toto Sugiri | 469 | $8.2B | -$1.2B | 73 | Data centers | Indonesia |
| Stephen Cohen | 481 | $8.0B | +$3.0B | 44 | Software | United States |
| Jayshree Ullal | 501 | $7.8B | +$2.1B | 65 | Computer networking | United States |
| Azim Premji | 505 | $7.8B | -$934M | 81 | Software services | India |
| Jack Dorsey | 507 | $7.7B | +$1.8B | 49 | Twitter, Square | United States |
| Marcos Galperin | 509 | $7.7B | +$511M | 54 | E-commerce | Argentina |
Wealth by country
- United States: 227 billionaires, $4.368T combined, richest Elon Musk
- China: 102 billionaires, $582B combined, richest Zhang Yiming
- Taiwan: 12 billionaires, $108B combined, richest Pierre Chen
- Germany: 22 billionaires, $105B combined, richest Andreas von Bechtolsheim & family
- South Korea: 16 billionaires, $99.6B combined, richest Jay Y. Lee
- Canada: 17 billionaires, $91.6B combined, richest Christopher Olah
- India: 16 billionaires, $64.6B combined, richest Shiv Nadar
- Hong Kong: 8 billionaires, $58.2B combined, richest Zhou Qunfei & family
- Australia: 9 billionaires, $57.6B combined, richest Mike Cannon-Brookes
- Brazil: 1 billionaires, $39.7B combined, richest Eduardo Saverin
- Ireland: 3 billionaires, $36.8B combined, richest John Collison
- Israel: 10 billionaires, $34.5B combined, richest Michael Federmann & family
- Sweden: 5 billionaires, $33.1B combined, richest Daniel Ek
- France: 9 billionaires, $18.5B combined, richest Olivier Pomel
- Indonesia: 3 billionaires, $17.8B combined, richest Otto Toto Sugiri
Questions people ask
Who is the richest person in technology?
Elon Musk is the richest person in technology, worth $1.004T on October 11, 2026, according to Forbes real-time estimates. Jeff Bezos is next at $381B.
How many billionaires are there in technology?
Forbes tracks 506 billionaires in technology as of October 11, 2026, worth a combined $5.823T. The median net worth among them is $2.5B.
Are billionaires in technology getting richer this year?
The 452 of them who were also on the 2026 Forbes billionaires list are up 19.7% (+$939B) together since that list, comparing each person's real-time worth with their figure on it.
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