valleylist (sm) friday 02.27.2009 v58.0 r.1
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WEALTHIEST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL people in silicon valley are largely inventors. while the list might change every year there’s a group of hard core rich people who dominate. don’t overlook industry leaders responsible carrying on the work of some of the most important inventors of the 20th century. ”valleylist” got there first with the alpha list based on people in the news. this week’s version has some real hard work behind it.
# Name / Net worth $billions / age / Location / company
1 William Gates III / $57.0 / 52 / Medina,WA / Microsoft
3 Lawrence Ellison / $27.0 /64 / Redwood City, CA / Oracle
8 Michael Bloomberg / $20.0 / 66 / New York, NY / Bloomberg
13 Sergey Brin / $15.9 / 35 / Palo Alto, CA / Google
14 Larry Page / $15.8 / 35 / San Francisco, CA / Google
33 Jeffrey Bezos / $8.7 / 44 / Seattle , WA / Amazon
49 David Geffen / $6.5 / 65 / Malibu , CA /movies, music
54 Pierre Omidyar / $6.3 / 41 / Honolulu, HI / Ebay
55 Charles Schwab / $6.2 / 71 / Atherton, CA /discount stocks
59 Eric Schmidt/ $5.9 /53 / Atherton, CA /Google
61 Steven Jobs / $5.7 / 53 / Palo Alto, CA / Apple, Pixar
66 Sumner Redstone / 5.1 / 85 / Beverly Hills , CA / Viacom
84 Gordon Moore / $4.4 / 79 / Woodside , CA / Intel
118 John Sobrato & family / $3.4 /69 / Atherton, CA /real estate
187 William Randolph Hearst III / $2.4 / 59 / SF, CA / Hearst
246 Irwin Jacobs / $1.9 / 74 / La Jolla, CA / Qualcomm
246 Omid Kordestani / $1.9 /44 / Atherton, CA / Google
246 Thomas Siebel / $1.9 /55 / Woodside , CA / Siebel
281 David Filo / $1.7 / 42 / Palo Alto, CA / Yahoo
281 Kavitark Ram Shriram /1.7 / 51 / Mtn View, CA / Google
281 Jerry Yang / $1.7 /39 / Los Altos Hills , CA /Yahoo
301 John Morgridge / $1.6 / 75 / Portola Valley, CA / Cisco
321 Mark Zuckerberg / $1.5 / 24 / Palo Alto, CA / Facebook
355 Barry Diller / $1.4 / 66 / NYC, NY / IAC/InterActiveCorp
355 Vinod Khosla / $1.4 / 53 / Menlo Park, CA /Sun Micro, Captl
source – - forbes magazine 400 richest people in the u.s.a.
the very important people who continue to manage the companies created around the 20th century’s most important inventions [not on the forbes list for some reason] should be counted among silicon valley’s wealthiest and most influential as well.
Mark Hurd HP Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President
John Chambers cisco systems chairman and ceo
Craig R. Barrett intel Chairman of the Board
Paul S. Otellini intel President and Chief Executive Officer
Steve Wozniak founder of apple computer
Nolan Bushnell founder of atari and many startups
al gore former vice president – - kleiner perkins
colin powell former secretary of state – - kleiner perkins
condolenza rice former scrtry of state – - stanford hoover schl
Jen-Hsun Huang – nvidia - - President, Chief Executive Officer
Vinton G. Cerf, google VP & Chief Internet Evangelist
John Doerr, google board – - Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
John Hennessy, google board of directors – - Stanford University
Mark Andreessen – - founder of netscape
Jim Clark - – founder of silicon graphics and netscape
MAYOR OF THE WEEK Mark Zuckerberg got there with the help of the forbes 400 richest people in the u.s.a. list. he also spent time getting into trouble in the search for silicon valley like a lot of normal people. what makes this unusual is nerds and rich people create value. a phenomenon unto itself facebook. my first facebook encounter was from a virgin mobile cell phone as an internet social group option. not really that interesting. later after trying out a few other internet social groups i found i got a lot of responses from facebook.
that sealed it for the “valleylist” recommendation.
what’s also interesting is where the money comes from – - capital investors.
“$500,000 from Peter Thiel, $12.7 million from Accel Partners, $27.5 million from Greylock Partners leading the round, Meritech Capital Partners participating, and Accel Partners and Peter Thiel increasing their investment in the company” . facebook has a way of spilling off the computer screen and into the real world with unexpected results. the real challenge not yet solved is to have the most members of any internet social group. right now it’s myspace with nearly as many members as google worldwide.
on the san jose hostage side of things it’s the sjpd with their final confrontation with reality – - can you find out who is right for the most difficult problem of the 20th century. an old sjpd person asks “do the police turn real men into real women” ?
the answer is “no”. the police don’t really turn people into real women yet they do know people sho get into so much trouble that they decided to change their name and hide out as women or the other way around hiding out as men like the Hilary Swank movie. contrary to conventional wisdom around san jose the sjpd usually stops at arresting criminals and do not need to go as far as turning normal people into real women.
here it is yet again i remain a hostage of the sjpd gang that is threatening everything they can come up with disguised as a “special project” and the police go along with it because they need the business. right now it’s gone as far as ignoring charges for extortion and denying due process by preventing me from getting an attorney. in fact things are so bad i probably need to worry about getting arrested.
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- - inviting the gang of eight and the gang of 500 to join the group
”the reign of terror” http://groups.yahoo.com/group/valleylist/message/115
to find out what the gang thinks they are doing
- – the reign of terror people have their own belief system
http://valleylist.ning.com/group/reignofterror/forum/topics/gang-of-eight-belief-system
- – new ”spin the bottle” internet social group applicaiton attracted the interest of sega ning uwink tesla and myspace. everybody invited to join.
http://developer.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1185512%3ATopic%3A112541
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