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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$29.01T
Jensen Huang
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Jensen Huang

NVIDIA · Co-founder & CEO · 1993

Created for others
$5.05T
▼$50.1B−0.98%
$5.24T market cap
Keeps $188B (3.58%)
NVDA · $214.72 · keeps 3.58% ($188B)
  1. 2
    Sergey Brin
    Sergey Brin
    Google · Co-founder · 1998
    GOOGL · $344.82 · keeps 5.94% ($248B)
    $3.93T
    ▲$47.3B+1.22%
  2. 3
    Larry Page
    Larry Page
    Google · Co-founder · 1998
    GOOGL · $344.82 · keeps 6.2% ($259B)
    $3.92T
    ▲$47.2B+1.22%
  3. 4
    Bill Gates
    Bill Gates
    Microsoft · Co-founder · 1975
    MSFT · $483.24 · keeps 1.3% ($47B)
    $3.54T
    ▲$15.3B+0.43%
  4. 5
    Jeff Bezos
    Jeff Bezos
    Amazon · Founder · 1994
    AMZN · $258.63 · keeps 8.5% ($234B)
    $2.52T
    ▼$14.4B−0.57%
  5. 6
    Elon Musk
    Elon Musk
    Tesla + SpaceX
    To others — Tesla $1.21T · SpaceX $1.04T · keeps $903B
    $2.25T
    ▲$81.9B+3.77%
  6. 7
    Morris Chang
    Morris Chang
    TSMC · Founder · 1987
    TSM · $418.95 · keeps 0.5% ($11B)
    $2.16T
    ▲$15.2B+0.71%
  7. 8
    Mark Zuckerberg
    Mark Zuckerberg
    Meta · Co-founder & CEO · 2004
    META · $549.90 · keeps 13.5% ($187B)
    $1.20T
    ▲$8.9B+0.75%
  8. 9
    Warren Buffett
    Warren Buffett
    Berkshire Hathaway · Builder of modern Berkshire · 1965
    BRK-B · $495.82 · keeps 13.7% ($147B)
    $923B
    ▼$1.9B−0.21%
  9. 10
    Pony Ma
    Pony Ma
    Tencent · Co-founder & CEO · 1998
    TCEHY · $58.07 · keeps 8.4% ($44B)
    $484B
    ▲$7.5B+1.57%
  10. 11
    Zhang Yiming
    Zhang Yiming
    ByteDance · Founder · 2012
    Private · 2026 valuation (est.) · keeps 21% ($116B)
    $435B
    Private · est.
  11. 12
    Alex Karp
    Alex Karp
    Palantir · Co-founder & CEO · 2003
    PLTR · $179.94 · keeps 2.5% ($11B)
    $421B
    ▲$14.0B+3.44%
  12. 13
    Reed Hastings
    Reed Hastings
    Netflix · Co-founder · 1997
    NFLX · $79.59 · keeps 0.89% ($3.0B)
    $339B
    ▼$2.3B−0.69%
  13. 14
    Jack Ma
    Jack Ma
    Alibaba · Co-founder · 1999
    BABA · $119.34 · keeps 4% ($11B)
    $267B
    ▼$25.0B−8.57%
  14. 15
    Larry Ellison
    Larry Ellison
    Oracle · Co-founder · 1977
    ORCL · $146.47 · keeps 41% ($170B)
    $245B
    ▲$7.3B+3.10%
  15. 16
    Tobi Lütke
    Tobi Lütke
    Shopify · Co-founder & CEO · 2006
    SHOP · $149.25 · keeps 6% ($12B)
    $182B
    ▲$2.5B+1.41%
  16. 17
    Larry Fink
    Larry Fink
    BlackRock · Co-founder & CEO · 1988
    BLK · $1156.55 · keeps 0.16% ($287M)
    $179B
    ▲$2.6B+1.47%
  17. 18
    Michael Dell
    Michael Dell
    Dell Technologies · Founder & CEO · 1984
    DELL · $442.08 · keeps 40.9% ($117B)
    $169B
    ▲$2.8B+1.68%
  18. 19
    Marc Benioff
    Marc Benioff
    Salesforce · Co-founder & CEO · 1999
    CRM · $209.17 · keeps 2.8% ($4.8B)
    $167B
    ▲$3.0B+1.82%
  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 · $187.30 · keeps 11% ($12B)
    $99B
    ▲$1.2B+1.24%
  22. 23
    Daniel Ek
    Daniel Ek
    Spotify · Co-founder · 2006
    SPOT · $533.72 · keeps 13.9% ($15B)
    $94B
    ▲$104M+0.11%
  23. 24
    N. R. Narayana Murthy
    N. R. Narayana Murthy
    Infosys · Co-founder · 1981
    INFY · $11.94 · keeps 0.4% ($198M)
    $49B
    ▲$455M+0.93%
  24. 25
    Phil Knight
    Phil Knight
    Nike · Co-founder · 1964
    NKE · $40.76 · keeps 17.8% ($11B)
    $49B
    ▲$665M+1.37%
  25. 26
    Jack Dorsey
    Jack Dorsey
    Block · Co-founder · 2009
    XYZ · $82.16 · keeps 7.9% ($4.0B)
    $46B
    ▲$1.2B+2.60%