40 richest under 40 - the list

[HEyHEY]

My favourite is the occupations of numbers 35-37 - that's what I'd be doing!

1. Michael Dell, 39, $17.95 billion
Chairman/Founder of Dell Computer

2. Pierre Omidyar, 37, $10.05 billion
Chairman/Founder of eBay

3. Jeff Skoll, 39, $4.69 billion
Chairman/Founder of the Skoll Foundation

4. Larry Page, 31, $4.19 billion
President, Products/Co-Founder of Google

5. Sergey Brin, 31, $4.17 billion
President, Technology/Co-Founder of Google

6. Jerry Yang, 35, $2.81 billion
Chief Yahoo/Co-Founder of Yahoo

7. David Filo, 38, $2.57 billion
Chief Yahoo/Co-Founder of Yahoo

8. Ken Griffin, 35, $1 billion
President/Founder of the Citadel Investment Group

9. Dan Snyder, 39, $823 million
Chairman/Principal Owner of the Washington Redskins

10. Marc Benioff, 39, $376 million
Chairman/CEO of Salesforce.com

11. Jeffrey Citron, 34, $346 million
Chairman/CEO/Co-Founder of Vonage

12. Elon Musk, 33, $328 million
CEO/Founder/CTO, Space Exploration Technologies

13. Sean Combs (P. Diddy), 34, $315 million
Chairman/CEO/Founder of Bad Boy Entertainment

14. Tiger Woods, 28, $295 million
Golfer

15. Halsey Minor, 39, $286.1 million
Chairman/CEO/Founder of Grand Central Communications

16. Shawn Carter (Jay-Z), 34, $286 million
Co-Founder of Roc-a-Fella Enterprises

17. Jerry Greenberg, 38, $278 million
Co-Chairman/Co-CEO/Co-Founder of Sapient

18. Raul Fernandez, 38, $263 million
Chairman/CEO of ObjectVideo

19. Jennifer Lopez, 35, $255 million
Actress/Singer/Co-Owner Sweetface Fashion

20. Marc Andreessen, 33, $253 million
Chairman/Co-Founder of Opsware

21. Joe Liemandt, 36, $234 million
President/CEO/Founder of Trilogy

22. Shaquille O'Neal, 32, $222 million
Basketball Player, Miami Heat

23. Michael Robertson, 37, $220 million
CEO/Founder of Linspire

24. Marc Ewing, 35, $217 million
Publisher of Alpinist magazine

25. Julia Roberts, 36, $212 million
Actress

26. Will Smith, 35, $188 million
Actor/Rapper

27. Andre Agassi, 34, $162 million
Tennis Player

28. Jared Polis, 29, $160 million
Chairman/Member at Large of the Colorado State Board of Education

29. Jeff Gordon, 33, $155 million
NASCAR Racer

30. Sudhakar Ravi, 39, $137.1 million
Retired

31. Ashley Olsen, 18, $137 million
Actress/Co-President of DualStar Entertainment

31. Mary-Kate Olsen, 18, $137 million
Actress/Co-President of DualStar Entertainment

33. John MacFarlane, 38, $136 million
CEO of Sonos.com

34. Jeffrey Zients, 37, $132 million
Chairman Advisory Board Co.

35. Sreekanth Ravi, 37, $131 million
Retired

36. Paul Gauthier, 32, $129 million
Retired

37. W. Glen Boyd, 37, $125 million
Retired

38. Britney Spears, 22, $123 million
Entertainer

39. Michael Saylor, 39, $113 million
Chairman/CEO/Founder of MicroStrategy

40. Kevin Garnett, 28, $106 million
Basketball Player, Minnesota Timberwolves

[mark414]

1. i can't even imagine

what a million dollars feels like

what the hell do people do with all that money?

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. Easy to imagine, actually

One big (or maybe not so big) house in a wealthy neighborhood.

[northzax]

9. 1,000,000 is not really that much

I mean it's beyond anything I'll ever have, sure. But when it comes down to it, if you invest, conservatively, $1,000,000 you might make $40,000/year before taxes and fees. That ain't enough to live like a king in most places in the US for your entire life.

[miss_kitty]

2. i landscaped in redmond and kirkland and bellevue

in the yards of many retired 29 year old microsofties many of whom sadly :) had to go back to 'work' when that tech bubble burst.

[smada]

3. Not much background in one line

Some of these people didn't make their fortunes in what they're doing now. It would be of more interest to list in which company they made their fortune.

For instance, Dan Snyder didn't make his money from the Redskins. He bought the Redskins after he's made over a $billion with his firm, Snyder Communications.

Marc Andreessen didn't get rich on OpsWare. He was the founder of Netscape and made many hundreds of millions in its IPO.

I don't know who Jeff Skoll is, but I suspect he started the Skoll Foundation after making a fortune in some industry.

Michael Robertson founded MP3.com

And I really doubt Jared Polis racked up a $160M fortune working for the Colorado State Board of Education

[HEyHEY]

5. Unless he was crooked!

[northzax]

6. hmm, well, Jeff Skoll was employee #1 at eBay

Jared Polis suckered MSN into buying his company, Bluemountain.com

and it's interesting that all these people are self made (sure, many started with several million, but have turned their fortunes over a hundred fold.) are there no inheritance people here? or did fortune decide to only focus on self made people?

I mean you can make this list with only (snicker) a 106 million, surely there are at least 50 people under the age of 40 in the US who have inherited this kind of money?

[DS1]

7. Lots of vapor money in here

If either of the Google co-founders exercised all their options at once, those billions would cease to be billions right quick

[sundog]

8. I need to go vomit now... excuse me

:puke: