Top 10 Richest People In Tech World

Techies are most appealing, innovative part of our society; they spend tones and tones of cash to materialize their latest technologies. The sales of the tech world are booming and fortunes are growing, the opportunities seem endless. However the tech world is the most volatile market, the fortune of majority of world's billionaires soared very high whereas for many it has come down too.

Forbes 400 has once again listed out richest tech personalities in the world over. Here the top 10 who made it to the list.

1. Bill Gates

Bill Gates, the current chairman of Microsoft has many sides to him; he is a techie, investor, Philanthropist, and now the wealthiest too with a staggering estimated wealth of $59 billion. He had co founded Microsoft with Paul Allen on April 4, 1975. He has been consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third. Yet once again he has come up to dominate the first position of world's richest techies in the world.

2. Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison is the oracle co - founder who boasts of property worth $33 billion. During the 1970s, after a brief stint at Amdahl Corporation, Ellison worked for Ampex Corporation. One of his projects was a database for the CIA, which he named "Oracle". In 2008, he earned a total compensation of $84,598,700, which included a base salary of $1,000,000, a cash bonus of $10,779,000, no stocks granted, and options granted of $71,372,700. In the year ending May 31, 2009 he made $56.8 million.

On July 2, 2009, for the fourth year in a row, Oracle's Board awarded Ellison another 7 million stock options. On August 22, 2009, it was reported that Ellison would be paid only $1 for his base salary for the fiscal year of 2010, down from the $1,000,000 he was paid in fiscal 2009.

3. Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos consist of personnel worth of $19.1 billion. He is the founder, president, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and Chairman of the

board of Amazon.com. Bezos' salary as CEO for 2010 was only $81,840, in addition to the $1.6 million cost of his personal security detail. He owns 20 percent of Amazon's stock and foregoes stock options.

4. Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg, the man behind the facebook mania is owner of property worth $17.5 billion. Zuckerberg 27 is the youngest ric

hest man in the Forbes list. He launched Facebook from his Harvard dormitory room on February 4, 2004 and made it a sensation worldwide. In 2010, Zuckerberg was chosen as number 16 in New Statesman's annual survey of the world's 50 most influential figures. Today Facebook has around more than 700 million users worldwide and still growing day by day.

5. Larry Page

Larry Page is the key founder behind the tradition of search engine in the world, along with Sergey, currently he is also the CEO of the compan

y. He has property worth $16.7 billion. Larry said Google is its own biggest threat. He made this statement on its recent Google Zeitgeist, which is a conference hosted by Google itself and lays out a series of panels and interviews designed to offer greater insight into the technological issues surrounding Google.

6. Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin co founded Google along with Larry Page, an arrangement that began 13 years ago and today he stands at personnel wealth of $16

.7 billion. Initially Brin's focus was on developing data mining systems. He is a Russian-born American computer scientist and internet entrepreneur.However his dream was becoming an astronomer.

7. Michael Dell

Michael Dell net property stands at a whopping $15 billion. In 1999, Michael and Susan Dell established Michael and Susan Dell Found

ation, which focuses on children's causes. By 2010, the foundation had committed more than $530 million to assist nonprofit organizations serving urban communities in the United States and India.

8. Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer, the Chief Executive of Microsoft since January 2000 has a personnel wealth worth $13.9 billion. He was initially of

fered a salary of $50,000 as well as a percentage of ownership of the company. When Microsoft was incorporated in 1981, Ballmer owned 8 percent of the company. During the subsequent 20 years, Ballmer headed several Microsoft divisions, including operations, operating systems development, and sales and support. In January 2000, he was officially named Chief Executive Officer.

9. Paul Allen

Along with Bill Gates, one man responsible for the phenomenal success of Microsoft is Paul Allen, the co founder of Microsoft stands at $13.

2 billion. Allen was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 1982. His cancer was successfully treated by several months of radiation therapy. However, he did not return to Microsoft and began distancing himself from the company. Allen officially resigned from his position on the Microsoft board in November 2000 but was asked to consult as a senior strategy advisor to the company's executives.

10. Steve Jobs

Apple's man of innovation holds personnel wealth worth $7 billion. On August 24, 2011, Jobs announced his resignation from his role as

Apple's CEO. In his letter of resignation, Jobs strongly recommended that the Apple executive succession plan be followed and Tim Cook be named as his successor.