Gates tops Forbes’ list with a net worth of $66 billion / €50.7 billion

Sep 20, 2012 07:07 GMT  ·  By

Bill Gates, Microsoft's co-founder, former chief executive and the current chairman, is America's richest person, according to a new top released by the Forbes magazine.

Gates tops the list with a current net worth of (it hurts to say it) $66 billion, while Warren Buffet, who's also a shareholder of Chinese car manufacturer BYD, comes second with $46 billion / €35.3 billion.

Larry Ellison, the famous Oracle CEO, reached the third position with $41 billion / €31.5 billion, which does nothing more than confirm us that technology companies are doing great nowadays. Surprisingly, Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page share the 13th position with $20.3 billion / €15.6 billion, while Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer made the top 20 with $15.9 billion / €12.2 billion.

Facebook fans may be a bit disappointed to find out that CEO Mark Zuckerberg only snatched position number 36 with a net worth of $9.4 billion / €7.2 billion.