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Not the fortunes they kept — the fortunes they built for everyone else.

A founder's company is worth a great deal. Most of that value is held by other people — employees, pensioners, index funds, strangers. We rank founders by thatnumber: each company's value minus the founder's own slice, summed across every company they built. The wealth created for others.

Combined wealth created for others$30.88T
Jensen Huang
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Jensen Huang

NVIDIA · Co-founder & CEO · 1993

Created for others
$5.62T
▲$116.5B+2.12%
$5.83T market cap
Keeps $209B (3.58%)
NVDA · $238.90 · keeps 3.58% ($209B)
  1. 2
    Sergey Brin
    Sergey Brin
    Google · Co-founder · 1998
    GOOGL · $346.47 · keeps 5.94% ($249B)
    $3.95T
    ▲$33.8B+0.86%
  2. 3
    Larry Page
    Larry Page
    Google · Co-founder · 1998
    GOOGL · $346.47 · keeps 6.2% ($260B)
    $3.94T
    ▲$33.8B+0.86%
  3. 4
    Bill Gates
    Bill Gates
    Microsoft · Co-founder · 1975
    MSFT · $525.18 · keeps 1.3% ($51B)
    $3.85T
    ▲$56.1B+1.48%
  4. 5
    Elon Musk
    Elon Musk
    SpaceX + Tesla
    To others — SpaceX $1.30T · Tesla $1.27T · keeps $1.10T
    $2.57T
    ▲$119.3B+4.88%
  5. 6
    Morris Chang
    Morris Chang
    TSMC · Founder · 1987
    TSM · $485.80 · keeps 0.5% ($13B)
    $2.51T
    ▲$67.2B+2.75%
  6. 7
    Jeff Bezos
    Jeff Bezos
    Amazon · Founder · 1994
    AMZN · $251.40 · keeps 8.5% ($228B)
    $2.45T
    ▼$1.2B−0.05%
  7. 8
    Mark Zuckerberg
    Mark Zuckerberg
    Meta · Co-founder & CEO · 2004
    META · $741.90 · keeps 13.5% ($252B)
    $1.62T
    ▲$30.1B+1.90%
  8. 9
    Warren Buffett
    Warren Buffett
    Berkshire Hathaway · Builder of modern Berkshire · 1965
    BRK-B · $504.26 · keeps 13.7% ($149B)
    $939B
    ▲$3.0B+0.32%
  9. 10
    Pony Ma
    Pony Ma
    Tencent · Co-founder & CEO · 1998
    TCEHY · $54.84 · keeps 8.4% ($42B)
    $457B
    ▲$14.4B+3.26%
  10. 11
    Alex Karp
    Alex Karp
    Palantir · Co-founder & CEO · 2003
    PLTR · $189.40 · keeps 2.5% ($11B)
    $443B
    ▲$1.5B+0.34%
  11. 12
    Zhang Yiming
    Zhang Yiming
    ByteDance · Founder · 2012
    Private · 2026 valuation (est.) · keeps 21% ($116B)
    $435B
    Private · est.
  12. 13
    Reed Hastings
    Reed Hastings
    Netflix · Co-founder · 1997
    NFLX · $67.50 · keeps 0.89% ($2.6B)
    $288B
    ▲$1.9B+0.66%
  13. 14
    Jack Ma
    Jack Ma
    Alibaba · Co-founder · 1999
    BABA · $110.80 · keeps 4% ($10B)
    $248B
    ▲$11.1B+4.68%
  14. 15
    Larry Ellison
    Larry Ellison
    Oracle · Co-founder · 1977
    ORCL · $142.48 · keeps 41% ($165B)
    $238B
    ▲$301M+0.13%
  15. 16
    Michael Dell
    Michael Dell
    Dell Technologies · Founder & CEO · 1984
    DELL · $552.29 · keeps 40.9% ($146B)
    $212B
    ▼$3.9B−1.82%
  16. 17
    Tobi Lütke
    Tobi Lütke
    Shopify · Co-founder & CEO · 2006
    SHOP · $160.11 · keeps 6% ($12B)
    $196B
    ▲$10.7B+5.76%
  17. 18
    Marc Benioff
    Marc Benioff
    Salesforce · Co-founder & CEO · 1999
    CRM · $229.79 · keeps 2.8% ($5.3B)
    $183B
    ▼$3.9B−2.09%
  18. 19
    Larry Fink
    Larry Fink
    BlackRock · Co-founder & CEO · 1988
    BLK · $1066.45 · keeps 0.16% ($264M)
    $165B
    ▲$1.1B+0.64%
  19. 20
    Patrick Collison
    Patrick Collison
    Stripe · Co-founder & CEO · 2010
    Private · Feb 2026 tender offer · keeps 12% ($19B)
    $140B
    Private · est.
  20. 21
    John Collison
    John Collison
    Stripe · Co-founder & President · 2010
    Private · Feb 2026 tender offer · keeps 12% ($19B)
    $140B
    Private · est.
  21. 22
    Brian Chesky
    Brian Chesky
    Airbnb · Co-founder & CEO · 2008
    ABNB · $164.07 · keeps 11% ($11B)
    $87B
    ▲$866M+1.01%
  22. 23
    Daniel Ek
    Daniel Ek
    Spotify · Co-founder · 2006
    SPOT · $483.05 · keeps 13.9% ($14B)
    $85B
    ▲$1.8B+2.15%
  23. 24
    N. R. Narayana Murthy
    N. R. Narayana Murthy
    Infosys · Co-founder · 1981
    INFY · $10.76 · keeps 0.4% ($179M)
    $44B
    ▼$1.2B−2.54%
  24. 25
    Jack Dorsey
    Jack Dorsey
    Block · Co-founder · 2009
    XYZ · $76.23 · keeps 7.9% ($3.7B)
    $43B
    ▲$1.1B+2.56%
  25. 26
    Phil Knight
    Phil Knight
    Nike · Co-founder · 1964
    NKE · $33.96 · keeps 17.8% ($8.9B)
    $41B
    ▲$109M+0.27%