En 2007, j’avais fait le même exercice, c’est à dire extraire de la liste des milliardaire de Forbes, ceux qui avaient un lien avec la technologie. J’ai trouvé par hasard la liste Forbes 2013 et j’ai fait le même exercice. Encore une fois les Etats-Unis dominent et le mot est faible. L’Europe en a 8, tandis que les Etats-Unis 63 …
Ce qui change dans la liste par rapport aux Milliardaires Technologistes de 2007 sont les nouveaux venus, les gagnants du web2.0: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter et Groupon, sans oublier GoDaddy!
En haut: les milliardaires de Facebook. En bas: les fondateurs de Linkedin, Twitter, Groupon, GoDaddy et enfin Laurene Powell Jobs.
De plus, l’âge moyen est de 57 ans mais l’âge des milliardaires de l’internet est de 46!
| # | Name | Origin | Company | Field | Wealth ($B) | Age |
| 2 | Bill Gates | USA | Microsoft | Software | 67 | 57 |
| 5 | Larry Ellison | USA | Oracle | Software | 43 | 68 |
| 19 | Jeff Bezos | USA | Amazon.com | Internet | 25.2 | 49 |
| 20 | Larry Page | USA | Internet | 23 | 39 | |
| 21 | Sergey Brin | USA | Internet | 22.8 | 39 | |
| 49 | Michael Dell | USA | Dell | Hardware | 15.3 | 48 |
| 51 | Steve Ballmer | USA | Microsoft | Software | 15.2 | 56 |
| 53 | Paul Allen | USA | Microsoft | Software | 15 | 60 |
| 66 | Mark Zuckerberg | USA | Internet | 13.3 | 28 | |
| 94 | Ernesto Bertarelli | CH | Merck Serono | Biotech | 11 | 47 |
| 98 | Laurene Powell Jobs | USA | Apple | Hardware | 10.7 | 49 |
| 122 | Hasso Plattner | D | SAP | Software | 8.9 | 69 |
| 123 | Hansjoerg Wyss | CH | Synthes | Medical devices | 8.7 | 78 |
| 123 | Pierre Omidyar | USA | Ebay | Internet | 8.7 | 45 |
| 138 | Eric Schmidt | USA | Internet | 8.2 | 57 | |
| 145 | Patrick Soon-Shiong | USA | Abraxis | Pharmaceuticals | 8 | 61 |
| 154 | James Goodnight | USA | SAS | Software | 7.7 | 70 |
| 156 | Klaus Tschira | D | SAP | Software | 7.5 | 72 |
| 179 | Xavier Niel | F | Free | Internet | 6.6 | 45 |
| 182 | Dietmar Hopp | D | SAP | Software | 6.5 | 72 |
| 262 | David Duffield | USA | Peoplesoft | Software | 4.8 | 72 |
| 316 | Gordon Moore | USA | Intel | Hardware | 4.1 | 84 |
| 353 | Dustin Moskovitz | USA | Internet | 3.8 | 28 | |
| 353 | John Sall | USA | SAS | Software | 3.8 | 64 |
| 363 | Jeffrey Skoll | USA | Ebay | Internet | 3.7 | 48 |
| 376 | Barbara P. Johnson | USA | Johnson & Johnson | Medical devices | 3.6 | 76 |
| 437 | Reid Hoffman | USA | Internet | 3.1 | 45 | |
| 437 | Alain Merieux | F | Biomerieux | Pharmaceuticals | 3.1 | 75 |
| 503 | Ronda Stryker | USA | Stryker Corp. | Medical devices | 2.8 | 58 |
| 503 | Andy v. Bechtolsheim | USA/D | Internet | 2.8 | 57 | |
| 527 | John Doerr | USA | KPCB | Venture capital | 2.7 | 61 |
| 527 | Elon Musk | USA | Tesla Motors | Hardware | 2.7 | 41 |
| 554 | Marc Benioff | USA | Salesforce.com | Software | 2.6 | 48 |
| 554 | Jack Dangermond | USA | ESRI | Software | 2.6 | 67 |
| 554 | Phillip Frost | USA | Key Pharma, Ivax | Pharmaceuticals | 2.6 | 76 |
| 554 | David Sun | USA | Kingston Technology | Hardware | 2.6 | 61 |
| 554 | John Tu | USA | Kingston Technology | Hardware | 2.6 | 72 |
| 613 | Mark Cuban | USA | Broadcast.com | Internet | 2.4 | 54 |
| 641 | Ray Dolby | USA | Dolby Laboratories | Hardware | 2.3 | 80 |
| 641 | Ralph Dommermuth | D | United Internet | Internet | 2.3 | 49 |
| 670 | Michael Moritz | USA | Sequoia | Venture capital | 2.2 | 58 |
| 670 | Eduardo Saverin | USA/Bra | Internet | 2.2 | 30 | |
| 736 | Sean Parker | USA | Internet | 2 | 33 | |
| 785 | Romesh T. Wadhwani | USA | Aspect | Software | 1.95 | 65 |
| 792 | Meg Whitman | USA | Ebay | Internet | 1.9 | 56 |
| 831 | Hans-Werner Hector | D | SAP | Software | 1.8 | 73 |
| 831 | Thomas Siebel | USA | Siebel | Software | 1.8 | 60 |
| 882 | David Filo | USA | Yahoo | Internet | 1.7 | 46 |
| 882 | Henry Samueli | USA | Broadcom | Hardware | 1.7 | 58 |
| 882 | David Cheriton | USA/Can | Internet | 1.7 | 61 | |
| 922 | Kavitark Ram Shriram | USA | Venture capital | 1.65 | 56 | |
| 931 | Craig McCaw | USA | McCaw Telecom | Telecom | 1.6 | 63 |
| 931 | Pat Stryker | USA | Stryker Corp. | Medical devices | 1.6 | 56 |
| 931 | Peter Thiel | USA | Paypal, Facebook | Internet | 1.6 | 45 |
| 965 | Irwin Jacobs | USA | Qualcomm | Hardware | 1.55 | 79 |
| 974 | Vinod Khosla | USA | KPCB, Khosla | Venture capital | 1.5 | 58 |
| 974 | Bob Parsons | USA | Go Daddy | Internet | 1.5 | 62 |
| 974 | Jerry Yang | USA | Yahoo | Internet | 1.5 | 44 |
| 1031 | John Brown | USA | Stryker Corp. | Medical devices | 1.4 | 78 |
| 1031 | Steve Case | USA | AOL | Internet | 1.4 | 54 |
| 1031 | Henry Nicholas, III. | USA | Broadcom | Hardware | 1.4 | 53 |
| 1107 | Mark Stevens | USA | Sequoia | Venture capital | 1.3 | 53 |
| 1107 | Jon Stryker | USA | Stryker Corp. | Medical devices | 1.3 | 54 |
| 1107 | Nicholas Woodman | USA | GoPro | Hardware | 1.3 | 37 |
| 1161 | Graham Weston | USA | Rackspace | Internet | 1.25 | 49 |
| 1175 | Jim Breyer | USA | Accel | Venture capital | 1.2 | 51 |
| 1175 | Robert Duggan | USA | Computer Motion | Medical devices | 1.2 | 68 |
| 1268 | James Clark | USA | Netscape | Internet | 1.1 | 68 |
| 1268 | Jack Dorsey | USA | Twitter, Square | Internet | 1.1 | 36 |
| 1268 | Eric Lefkofsky | USA | Groupon | Internet | 1.1 | 43 |
| 1342 | John Morgridge | USA | Cisco | Hardware | 1 | 79 |