In case you were wondering...It's now official: Sergey Brin and Larry Page, co-founders of Google make more money than God. Well, not exactly, but today, Forbes published its list of the richest people in the U.S. The two Google co-founders displaced four members of the Walton clan (of Wal-Mart fame, not the TV show), on the top 10 list of America's highest net worth people. Forbes said it was the first time a member of the Walton family has not appeared on the top 10 list since 1989. It was the first time the two Googlers had ascended to the Top 10 list. Brin and Page, who are each estimated to have $18.5 billion in net worth, also jumped over poor old Michael Dell, who is No. 8 on the list with a net worth of $17.2 billion. Two newcomers to the list were oil tycoons Charles and David Koch, each with a worth of $17 billion. And in case you were wondering, yes, Bill Gates is still the richest man in America, with a net worth of $59 billion, followed by his bridge-playing buddy Warren Buffett, who is just behind him at $52 billion (what's a mere $7 billion among friends?) Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, and one of the world's most evil people, still can't catch up to rival Bill Gates with his paltry net worth of $26 billion.
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It's alright for some!
not to worry. These rich men are also the most charitable men, that is if charity isn't relative. In a different kind of filthy note, while traveling around America in my car, the only place I saw a beggar sitting outside an actual Walmart was actually in Arkansas.
I made a note for charity begins at home and ends on the road.
Otherwise I spotted them on the beach in Biloxi, laying around on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, a couple sitting near central park in New York, lots of peddlers with packs in my own back yard, and a couple who offered me smiles (sometimes the greatest charity I knew for a rich gal from the suburbs) in a parking lot in E-town. Occasionally I was jealous that their big ol' ugly broken down, 20 year old American car was probably much more comfy than my much newer zippy foreign car, which i really wouldn't have to be in if I wasn't so stubborn.
But I have to hand it to both types of men, from Bill bill billionaire gates to beach bum in biloxi, they were all bidding their hands in bridges, rickety and/or rigid.
Posted by: nancy | September 22, 2007 5:53 AM | Permalink to Comment