Technology Titans

Technology Titans 
John Tu & David Sun cofounders of Kingston Technology.
Net worth: $5.4 billion each Change from 2017 ranking:-36
Net worth in 2017: $6 billion
Although the net worth of Kingston’s co-founders did drop by more than half a billion in the last year, the company remains one of the largest providers of USB drives, SD cards, and just about any other memory storing product.

Jan Koum co-founder of WhatsApp.
Net worth: $9.6 billion
Change from 2017 ranking: +1
Net worth in 2017: $9.6 billion
Koum sold his popular messaging app to Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion and announced. This April that he’d be leaving his role to explore life outside of technology.
Jensen Huang co-founder of Nvidia.
Net worth: $6.6 billion
Change from 2017 ranking: +77
Net worth in 2017: $4.4 billion
Since Huang founded Nvidia in 1993, the company has profited from producing graphics cards for PCs and computer gaming.

Gordon Moore co-founder of Intel.
Net worth: $9.4 billion
Change from 2017 ranking: +16
Net worth in 2017: $7.5 billion
The co-founder is the namesake for Moore’s Law, which has widely been used to (pretty accurately) predict the evolution of computers that the amount of computing power possible would double every two years or so, even as computers have become smaller and cheaper.

Marc Benioff CEO of Salesforce
Net worth: $6.4 billion
Change from 2017 ranking: +104
Net worth in 2017: $4.5 billion
The CEO of software company Salesforce most recently made headlines when he and his wife bought Time magazine for $190 million. He has also made a case for improving tax systems.

Pierre Omidyar founder of eBay.
Net worth: $11.6 billion
Change from 2017 ranking: +10
Net worth in 2017: $9.6 billion

Omidyar became a billionaire just three years after he launched eBay in 1995. Since then, Omidyar has been an active journalism advocate and founded First Look Media, the parent company of The Intercept.
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