The 100 Richest Internet Billionaires 2025

Introducing the highly anticipated official 100 Richest Internet Billionaires 2025 list by IncomeDiary! This exclusive list provides a comprehensive look at the richest people in the world which came through their ventures directly related to the Internet. With meticulous research, IncomeDiary has curated a definitive ranking showcasing these internet moguls’ remarkable financial achievements, which led them to become internet billionaires. From visionary tech innovators to astute digital investors, this list unveils the diverse paths that have led these individuals to immense prosperity.

The Current 10 Richest Internet Billionaires

1) Jeff Bezos: Founder of Amazon is worth $210 Billion	6) Ma Huateng: Founder of Tencent is worth $37.8 billion
2) Mark Zuckerberg: Founder of Facebook is worth $205 billion	7) Eric Schmidt: First CEO of Google is worth $32 billion
3) Larry Page: Founder of Google is worth $142.5 billion	8) William Ding: Founder of NetEase is worth $30.6 billion
4) Sergey Brin: Founder of Google is worth $136.6 billion	9) Eduardo Saverin: Co-founder of Facebook is worth $30 billion
5) Zhang Yiming: Founder of TikTok is worth $43.4 billion	10) Ma Yun: Founder of Alibaba is worth $24.7 billion

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100 Wealthiest Internet Billionaires

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#1	Jeff Bezos: Founder of Amazon is worth $210 billion Jeff (60) is an American technology and retail entrepreneur, investor, and philanthropist best known as the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon.com, the world’s largest online shopping retailer (worth about $1.8 trillion). The company was founded in Jeff’s home garage and began as an as an online bookstore, but now it is best known for selling and offering a wide range of products and services, including electronics, clothing, groceries, and digital content like video and audio streaming. Amazon.com is currently the world’s largest Internet sales company on the World Wide Web and earns $575 Billion annually (that’s $18,250 a second). Read more: ‘15 Business Lessons from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos’
#2	Mark Zuckerberg: Founder of Facebook is worth $205 billion Mark (39) is an American computer programmer and Internet entrepreneur. He co-founded Facebook and currently serves as its chairman and chief executive officer. Forbes ranks him the fourth richest billionaire in the world and the richest under 40. Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard University dormitory room with the help of his college roommates and fellow Harvard students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
#3	Larry Page: Founder of Google is worth $142.5 billion Larry (51) is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin (famously in a garage). Page is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. After stepping aside as Google CEO in August 2001 in favour of Eric Schmidt, he re-assumed the role in April 2011. Page is the 6th richest person in the world and the company he founded is worth over $2 trillion. Page is the inventor of PageRank and an investor in Tesla Motors.
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#4	Sergey Brin: Founder of Google is worth $136.6 billion Sergey (50) is a Russian-born American computer scientist, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist worth more than $130 billion. Together with Larry Page, he co-founded Google. President of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., Brin is not just limited to Google. He is passionately working on other, more personal projects that reach beyond Google, aiming to make a significant impact on the world’s energy and climate problems. Brin and Page are leading the charge at Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, which invests in the alternative energy industry to find wider sources of renewable energy.
#5	Zhang Yiming: Founder of TikTok is worth $43.4 billion Zhang Yiming (41) founded ByteDance, the parent company of the popular social media platform TikTok. He founded the company in 2012, and it has since become one of the most valuable startups in the world. ByteDance’s success is mainly due to the popularity of TikTok, which has over 1 billion active users worldwide. Zhang’s net worth is estimated to be $43.4 billion, making him one of the wealthiest people in China. Despite his success, Zhang is known for being very private and rarely gives interviews or public speeches.
#6	Ma Huateng: Founder of Tencent is worth $37.8 billion Ma (52) also known as Pony Ma, is a Chinese internet entrepreneur. He is the founder, president, chief executive officer and executive board member of Tencent Inc., one of the largest Internet companies in China. The company controls China’s biggest mobile instant messaging service and its subsidiaries provide media, entertainment, the internet and mobile phone value-added services.
#7	Eric Schmidt: First CEO of Google is worth $32 billion Eric (69) is a well-known American businessman who served as the first CEO of Google (from 2001 to 2011) and the former executive chairman of Alphabet Inc., Google’s parent company. Schmidt owns about 1% of Alphabet’s shares and is one of the richest people in the world. He has collected about $5 billion from selling his Google stock. Schmidt joined Google in 2001 after meeting the company’s founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, at a conference in 1998. Read his book: The Age of AI: And Our Human Future
#8	William Ding: Founder of NetEase is worth $30.6 billion William (52) is a Chinese entrepreneur best known as the founder of NetEase, a leading internet technology company in China. He created NetEase in 1997, which has since grown to become one of the largest internet companies in China, focusing on online gaming, e-commerce, and other internet services. NetEase is also the parent company of Blizzard Entertainment, a video game developer that created the popular game Overwatch, and Ding played a significant role in bringing Overwatch to China. Despite starting with relatively little funding, Ding grew NetEase into a multi-billion-dollar company through his business acumen and strategic investments.
#9	Eduardo Saverin: Co-founder of Facebook is worth $30 billion Eduardo (42) is a Brazilian Internet entrepreneur and angel investor. Saverin is one of the co-founders of Facebook. During his junior year at Harvard, Saverin met fellow Harvard undergraduate, sophomore Mark Zuckerberg. Noting the need for a dedicated social networking website for Harvard students, the two worked together to launch The Facebook. As co-founder, Saverin was the chief financial officer and business manager. As of 2015, he owns 53 million Facebook shares (approximately 0.4% of all outstanding shares). He has also invested in early-stage startups such as Qwiki and Jumio.
#10	Ma Yun: Founder of Alibaba is worth $24.7 billion Ma (59) is known professionally as Jack Ma, is a Chinese business magnate who is the founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group, a family of Internet-based businesses. He is currently the richest person in Asia and the 74th richest in the world. He has become a global icon in business and entrepreneurship, one of the world’s most influential businessmen, and a philanthropist known for expounding his philosophy of business.
#11	Dustin Moskovitz: Co-founder of Facebook is worth $18.3 billion Dustin (40) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who co-founded Facebook with Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. He played a significant role in the founding of the business by working as the chief technology officer and overseeing the technical aspects of the company. After leaving Facebook in 2008, Moskovitz co-founded Asana, a web and mobile application designed to help teams organize and manage their work. Today, he remains a majority owner of Asana and serves as its CEO. Additionally, he still holds a 1% stake in Meta, formerly known as Facebook, making him one of the world’s youngest billionaires.
#12	Jan Koum: Co-founder of WhatsApp is worth $16.3 billion Jan (48) is an American internet inventor and computer programmer. Koum and Acton applied, and failed, to work at Facebook. Latter Koum bought an iPhone and realized that the then-seven-month-old App Store was about to spawn a whole new industry of apps. Koum almost immediately chose the name WhatsApp because it sounded like “what’s up”. He is the CEO and co-founder of WhatsApp (with Brian Acton), a mobile messaging application which was acquired by Facebook Inc. in February 2014 for US$19.3 billion.
#13	David Cheriton: One of Googles first investors is worth $14.7 billion David (72) is a Canadian computer scientist, mathematician, businessman, philanthropist, and venture capitalist. He is a computer science professor at Stanford University, where he founded and heads up the Distributed Systems Group. He is a distributed systems and networking expert with keen insight into identifying big market opportunities and building the architectures needed to address these opportunities. He has founded and invested in technology companies, including Google, where he was amongst the first investors
#14	Zhang Zhidong: Co-founder of Tencent is worth $12.5 billion Zhang (52) also known as Tony Zhang, is a Chinese businessman, co-founder, former CTO and second-largest individual shareholder of Tencent, a Chinese internet company. He was in the same class at Shenzhen University as Tencent’s founder, fellow billionaire Ma Huateng. Tencent shares have more than doubled in the past year. The company is about 30% owned by Naspers of South Africa. He also has a master’s degree from the South China U niversity of Technology.
#15	Brian Chesky: Co-founder of Airbnb is worth $10.8 billion Brian (42) co-founded Airbnb in 2008 with Joe Gebbia and Nathan Blecharczyk. The idea was born out of the necessity to make rent money by renting out their living space. The trio launched the website Airbedandbreakfast.com, and after seeing potential in their idea, they rebranded it to Airbnb. The company’s success grew rapidly, and with innovative strategies and a strong vision, Brian Chesky led Airbnb to become a global phenomenon, making him a billionaire in the process. His visionary leadership and the company’s disruption of the hospitality industry were pivotal in his rise to billionaire status. Airbnb only took 34 months between launching and becoming a billion dollar company.
#16	Liu Qiangdong: Founder of JD.com is worth $10.7 billion Liu (50) is a Chinese Internet entrepreneur, also known as Richard Liu. He is the founder of JD.com or Jingdong Mall, one of the leading e-commerce industry leaders in China. As a young man, Liu Qiangdong had an interest in politics. Liu enrolled in the department of sociology at the People’s University of China, known for its connection to China’s political elites. However, Liu spent all his spare time learning computer programming.
#17	Michael Rubin: CEO of Kynetic is worth $10.6 billion Michael (52) is an American businessman, entrepreneur, and the founder and executive chairman of Fanatics, a leading online retailer of licensed sports merchandise. He became a billionaire through his successful e-commerce ventures and strategic investments. Rubin founded GSI Commerce, an e-commerce company that eBay later acquired for $2.4 billion in 2011. He also founded Kynetic, an e-commerce platform that includes Fanatics, Rue La La, and ShopRunner, which have all achieved significant success in their respective markets. Through his entrepreneurial endeavours and business acumen, Michael Rubin has established himself as a prominent figure in the e-commerce industry and a notable billionaire.
#18	Nathan Blecharczyk: Co-founder of Airbnb is worth $10.5 billion Nathan (40) is an American business executive and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and chief strategy officer of Airbnb and was the company’s first chief technology officer. He continued writing programs while attending Harvard University in pursuit of a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and began his career as an engineer at OPNET Technologies. He served as a lead developer at Batiq. Later Blecharczyk partnered with Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia to found Airbnb, he served as the company’s first chief technology officer and coded the company’s original website using Ruby on Rails.
#19	Wang Xing: Founder and CEO of Meituan is worth $9.8 billion Wang (45) is a Chinese billionaire entrepreneur and investor with a net worth of $9.8 billion. He is the founder and CEO of Meituan, a Chinese tech company that operates one of China’s largest online marketplaces for food delivery, travel bookings, and other services.  Meituan is often referred to as the “Groupon of China” due to its initial focus on group-buying deals before expanding into other areas. Before founding Meituan, Wang Xing had founded several other companies, including Fanfou, a Chinese microblogging site, and Xiaonei, a social networking site for college students.
#20	Marc Benioff: Founder of Salesforce is worth $9.7 billion Marc (59) is an American internet entrepreneur, author and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of Salesforce, a large enterprise cloud computing company (started in an apartment he rented). Benioff started Salesforce in March 1999 in a rented San Francisco apartment and defined its mission in a marketing statement as “The End of Software” Benioff has long evangelized software as a service as the model that would replace traditional enterprise software.
#21	Joe Gebbia: Co-founder of Airbnb is worth $9.6 billion Joe (42) is an American designer and Internet entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer of Airbnb. In 2009, Gebbia was listed in BusinessWeek’s Top 20 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs. Gebbia convinced Chesky to move to San Francisco in 2007 to start a business together. When they both quit their jobs, their landlord raised their rent, so they needed money. Knowing the Industrial Design Society of America conference was coming to San Francisco and, many hotels were booked. Gebbia believed they could rent out airbeds in their apartment to conference goers, they marketed this business idea by creating a website called “AirBed & Breakfast.”
#22	Chris Xu: Founder and CEO of Shein is worth $9.1 billion Sky Xu (40) is the co-founder and CEO of Shein, a popular fast-fashion brand among Gen Z that sells trendy clothes in over 150 countries. Supported by Hongshan, which used to be Sequoia China, Shein is one of the most well-liked shopping apps, known for its low prices. In the first half of 2022, the company raised funds and was valued at $100 billion, but its value dropped during a global stock market decline. In 2023, Shein started opening physical stores by partnering with Sparc Group, which runs the Forever 21 clothing chain, to set up shop in various locations across the U.S.
#23	Denise Coates: Founder of Bet365 is worth $9 billion Denise (56) is an English businesswoman, founder and joint chief executive of online gambling company Bet365. While working in a temporary building on a car park near one of her shops, she spent a year creating a new online betting site. The business borrowed £15 million from RBS against the family’s betting shop estate. In 2005 these shops were sold to Coral for £40 million which also paid off the loan to RBS.
#24	James Goodnight: Co-founder of SAS Institute is worth $8.8 billion James (81) is an American businessman and software programmer. He and several other faculty members of North Carolina State University left the university in 1976 to co-found SAS Institute. Since the first day of incorporation, he has served as the company’s CEO. His leadership style and the work environment he created at SAS, now a multibillion-dollar company, have been studied by other businesses and by academics.
#25	Joseph Tsai: Co-founder of Alibaba is worth $8.6 billion Joseph (60) is a Taiwanese-Canadian businessman. He is the co-founder and vice chairman of Alibaba Group. Joseph Tsai was born in Taipei, Taiwan, but holds a Canadian passport. He is also the president of Crimson Group, chairman of the football club Rakuten Vissel Kobe, chairman of Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and a board member of Lyft. He attended high school at the Lawrenceville School and has undergraduate and law degrees from Yale University where he also played collegiate lacrosse.
#26	David Duffield: Co-founder of PeopleSoft is worth $7.4 billion David (83) is an American businessman in the software industry. He is the co-founder and former chairman of PeopleSoft, the co-founder and co-CEO of Workday, Inc., and has been on the Forbes World’s Richest People list. Implementation focuses on PeopleSoft’s proprietary PeopleTools technology. PeopleTools includes many different components used to create web-based applications.
#27	John Collison: Co-founder of Stripe is worth $7.2 billion John (33) is an Irish entrepreneur. He is best known for having co-founded Stripe with his brother, Patrick. The brothers are worth at least $1.1 billion each after San Francisco-based Stripe raised $150 million from CapitalG, an investment division of Google parent company Alphabet, and General Catalyst Partners. In November 2016, the Collison brothers became the world’s youngest self-made billionaires.
#28	Patrick Collison: Co-founder of Stripe is worth $7.2 billion Patrick (35) is an Irish entrepreneur from County Limerick. He is the co-founder and CEO of Stripe, which he started with his younger brother, John, in 2010. He won the 41st Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in 2005 at the age of sixteen. He lives in San Francisco, California. The brothers are now worth at least $1.1 billion each after San Francisco-based Stripe raised $150 million from CapitalG, an investment division of Google parent company Alphabet, and General Catalyst Partners
#29	Peter Thiel: Co-founder of PayPal is worth $7 billion Peter (56) is a billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund manager. He co-founded PayPal in 1998, an online payment company that was later sold to eBay for $1.5 billion (see 30 biggest website sales). Thiel became a billionaire after the sale of PayPal. He is also known for being an early investor in Facebook, acquiring a 10.2% stake in the company for $500,000 in 2004. His investment in Facebook contributed significantly to his wealth and success as a venture capitalist. Thiel’s business acumen and early investments in successful tech companies have solidified his status as a prominent figure in the tech and finance industries.
#30	Martin Lorentzon: Founder of Spotify is worth $6.5 billion Martin (55) is a Swedish billionaire entrepreneur and investor who co-founded the music streaming service Spotify along with Daniel Ek in 2006. The company was founded with the goal of creating a legal and affordable music streaming service that would fairly compensate artists for their work. Lorentzon’s contribution to the company’s success has been significant, as he was responsible for developing the technology that powers the platform. As of 2021, Martin Lorentzon’s net worth is estimated to be nearly $6.5 billion, making him one of the wealthiest people in Sweden. Despite his wealth, Lorentzon is known for being a down-to-earth and unassuming person passionate about music and technology.
#31	Pierre Omidyar: Founder of eBay is worth $6.5 billion Pierre (56) is a French-born Iranian-American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is the founder of the eBay auction site (which he started at home) where he served as chairman from 1998 to 2015. He became a billionaire at the age of 31 with eBay’s 1998 initial public offering (IPO). Omidyar and his wife Pamela are well-known philanthropists who founded Omidyar Network in order to expand their efforts beyond non-profits to include for-profits and public policy. Since 2010, Omidyar has been involved in online journalism as the head of investigative reporting and public affairs news service Honolulu Civil Beat.
#32	Tobias Lütke: Co-founder of Shopify is worth $6.4 billion Tobias (43) is a German-born entrepreneur and software engineer best known as the co-founder and CEO of Shopify, a leading e-commerce platform, bringing in $7.1 billion in revenue last year. With a net worth of $6.4 billion, he is one of the wealthiest people in Canada. Lütke started his career as a programmer and worked at several tech companies before co-founding Shopify in 2006. Under his leadership, Shopify has become a major player in the e-commerce world, serving over 1 million businesses in more than 175 countries. Lütke is known for his innovative and customer-centric approach to business and has been recognized with numerous awards and honours throughout his career.
#33	Travis Kalanick: Former Uber CEO is worth $6.3 billion Travis (47) co-founder of the peer-to-peer file sharing company Red Swoosh and former CEO of transportation network company Uber. In 2014, he entered the Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans at position 190. Kalanick started his first business, an online file-exchange service called Scour. In 1998, he dropped out of UCLA to work at the start-up full time.
#34	Kwon Hyuk-Bin: Founder of Smilegate is worth $6.3 billion Kwon Hyuk-Bin (50) founded Smilegate in and built it into one of the most successful gaming companies in South Korea. Partnership with Chinese Internet giant Tencent, it released its most popular title, CrossFire. Through his Smilegate Foundation, Kwon has established schools in China and Vietnam, providing education in IT, among other subjects. Kwon’s Smilegate Holdings, of which he owns 100%, is the largest shareholder of Korean mobile game developer SundayToz.
#35	Hiroshi Mikitani: Founder of Rakuten is worth $6.1 billion Hiroshi (59) is a Japanese billionaire businessman and the founder and CEO of Rakuten. In 1996, Mikitani started looking at various business models and decided to launch an online shopping mall. At the time, Netscape was around, Amazon.com had recently launched, and Google didn’t yet exist. Mikitani founded the e-commerce company MDM, Inc. with three co-founders and of their own money, launching the online marketplace Rakuten Ichiba in Japan. The company was renamed Rakuten, Inc. It started as a small online marketplace and has since grown into an e-commerce giant.
#36	Robin Li: Founder of Baidu is worth $6 billion