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Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos top the world’s 12 richest tech billionaires list – worth a collective US$990 billion

Three of the world's richest tech billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Reuters, DPA
Three of the world's richest tech billionaires: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Reuters, DPA

They’ve founded Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Tesla – but exactly how much are the world’s 12 richest tech billionaires worth, and how much has their wealth increased in 2020?

What would you do with a million dollars? When it comes to the world’s richest in tech, the question requires slapping on a few more zeros, as the 12 richest tech billionaires have a collective net worth of over US$990 billion. At the top of the list sits Jeff Bezos, of course – Amazon CEO, owner of The Washington Post, and now officially richest man in the world, ever – but who are the other 12?

Meet the tech tycoons as ranked by their net worths sourced from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world. Photo: Agence France-Presse
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world. Photo: Agence France-Presse

12. Michael Dell

Dell CEO Michael Dell at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco in 2013. Photo: AP Photo
Dell CEO Michael Dell at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in San Francisco in 2013. Photo: AP Photo

Net worth: US$36.8 billion

Age: 55

Source of wealth: Self-made; Dell

Net worth year-over-year change: Up by US$5.96 billion in the last year.