Quand le magazine Forbes a publié sa liste de milliardaires, j’ai essayé d’extraire ceux qui ont bâti leur fortune grâce à des start-up high-tech. J’ai ensuite compré Europe et Etats-Unis et la table qui suit est éloquente: en Europe,seule SAP a permis la création de telles fortunes.
| Rang | Nom | Pays | Fortune ($B) | Origine | Age |
| 1 | Bill Gates | USA | 56 | Microsoft | 51 |
| 11 | Larry Ellison | USA | 21.5 | Oracle | 62 |
| 19 | Paul Allen | USA | 18 | Microsoft | 54 |
| 26 | Sergey Brin | USA | 16.6 | 33 | |
| 26 | Larry Page | USA | 16.6 | 34 | |
| 30 | Michael Dell | USA | 15.8 | Dell | 42 |
| 31 | Steven Ballmer | USA | 15 | Microsoft | 51 |
| 76 | Pierre Omidyar | USA | 8.8 | Ebay | 39 |
| 116 | Eric Schmidt | USA | 6.2 | 51 | |
| 119 | Hasso Plattner | Allemagne | 6 | SAP | 63 |
| 132 | Steven Jobs | USA | 5.7 | Apple, Pixar | 52 |
| 188 | Jeffrey Bezos | USA | 4.4 | Amazon | 43 |
| 204 | Jeffrey Skoll | USA | 4.2 | Ebay | 42 |
| 243 | Gordon Moore | USA | 3.6 | Intel | 78 |
| 287 | Klaus Tschira | Allemagne | 3 | SAP | 66 |
| 369 | Ray Dolby | USA | 2.5 | Dolby | 74 |
| 369 | David Filo | USA | 2.5 | Yahoo | 40 |
| 407 | Mark Cuban | USA | 2.3 | Broadcast.com | 48 |
| 432 | John Abele | USA | 2.2 | Boston Scientific | 70 |
| 432 | Henry Nicholas III | USA | 2.2 | Broadcom | 47 |
| 432 | Jerry Yang | USA | 2.2 | Yahoo | 38 |
| 458 | Omid Kordestani | USA | 2.1 | 43 | |
| 458 | Henry Samueli | USA | 2.1 | Broadcom | 52 |
| 538 | Hans-Werner Hector | Allemagne | 1.9 | SAP | 67 |
| 538 | Peter Nicholas | USA | 1.9 | Boston Scientific | 65 |
| 538 | Andy Bechtolsheim | USA | 1.9 | Sun, Google, | 51 |
| 557 | John Morgridge | USA | 1.8 | Cisco | 73 |
| 583 | Irwin Jacobs | USA | 1.7 | Qualcomm | 73 |
| 583 | Mike Lazaridis | Canada | 1.7 | RIM (Blackberry) | 46 |
| 583 | Kavitark Shriram | USA | 1.7 | 51 | |
| 583 | Theodore Waitt | USA | 1.7 | Gateway | 44 |
| 618 | James Balsillie | Canada | 1.6 | RIM (Blackberry) | 46 |
| 664 | Amar Bose | USA | 1.5 | Bose | 77 |
| 664 | Thomas Siebel | USA | 1.5 | Siebel Systems | 54 |
| 717 | David Cheriton | USA | 1.4 | 55 | |
| 717 | Scott Cook | USA | 1.4 | Intuit | 54 |
| 717 | Todd Wagner | USA | 1.4 | Broadcast.com | 46 |
| 754 | Richard Egan | USA | 1.3 | EMC Corp | 71 |
| 754 | Margaret Whitman | USA | 1.3 | Ebay | 50 |
| 799 | David Duffield | USA | 1.2 | Peoplesoft | 66 |
| 799 | Dietmar Hopp | Allemagne | 1.2 | SAP | 66 |
| 840 | James Clark | USA | 1.1 | Netscape | 63 |
| 891 | Weili Dai | USA | 1 | Marvell | 45 |
| 891 | John Doerr | USA | 1 | Venture capital | 56 |
| 891 | Arthur Rock | USA | 1 | Venture capital | 80 |
| 891 | Charles Simonyi | USA | 1 | Microsoft | 59 |
| 891 | Sehat Sutardja | USA | 1 | Marvell | 45 |
| New | Vinod Khosla | Inde | 1.5 | Sun, Venture capital | 52 |
| New | Michael Moritz | USA | 1.3 | Venture capital | 52 |