Here are the richest U.S. tech billionaires on the 2021 Forbes400 list:
by the District of Columbia attorney general. Meanwhile, Congress is deliberating a complete overhaul of antitrust laws, which could threaten tech’s kingpins and rising stars on an industry-wide level. The implications could be huge: Facebook, for example, could be forced to relinquish control of Instagram and WhatsApp.
But the avalanche of scrutiny has so far failed to put a dent in the pockets of the country’s richest tech billionaires. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the first person in Forbes 400 history to amass a $200 billion fortune. Mark Zuckerberg, meanwhile, surpassed longtime list-topper Bill Gates for the first time this year. Facebook joined Amazon, Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft as the only American companies to ever reach a $1 trillion market capitalization.
Tech’s ultrarich are now in a class of their own. One-fifth of The Forbes 400—a snapshot of the richest people in America on September 3, 2021—have fortunes in technology. These 80 billionaires are worth a collective $1.6 trillion. But even among the richest of the rich, the wealth is disproportionately held by a small fraction of individuals.
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