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Sergey & Brin Just Became 5th & 6th Richest Americans

Search-Engines-Web.com [PersonRank 10]

Saturday, September 22, 2007
16 years ago7,438 views

http://www.forbes.com/lists/2007/54/richlist07_The-400-Richest-Americans
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   1. William Gates III
   2. Warren Buffett
   3. Sheldon Adelson
   4. Lawrence Ellison
   5. Sergey Brin
   6. Larry Page
   7. Kirk Kerkorian
   8. Michael Dell
   9. Charles Koch
   10. David Koch
   11 Paul Allen
   12 Christy Walton & family
   12 Jim Walton
   12 S Robson Walton
   15 Alice Walton
   16 Steven Ballmer

http://origin.mercurynews.com/business/ci_6956906

   Googlers Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both 34, tied for fifth on the new Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans released Thursday. According to the magazine's survey, they are each worth $18.5 billion, placing them just behind Oracle's Larry Ellison, 63, who is worth $26 billion.

That makes Page and Brin the youngest ever to crack the top 10 on the Forbes list. Their net worth has more than quadrupled since they first made the list in 2004, when their fortunes were "only" $4 billion each. And at the speed their fortunes are growing, the only question now is whether they can topple Bill Gates, 51, ranked first for the 14th straight year with $59 billion.

"The speed to wealth is startling," said Matthew Miller, the associate Forbes editor who is in charge of the list,...

http://images.forbes.com/media/2007/03/08/billionaires_center.jpg
'Thank you SearchEnginesWeb, without your posts on Cutts blog we NEVER could have gotten this far'!

andy [PersonRank 0]

16 years ago #

and how well are Larry & Page doing?

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

And they still make 1 dollar a year.

Congratulations!

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