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Some billionaires just pack a bigger punch than others


Bill gates , Dell and others. if you add up , all the rich billionaires in computer sceince, it is more than nigeria. $1000 award is nothing

The dotcom boom ushered in the new-age entrepreneurship and with it came a new set of billionaires. Billionaires who have brought their start-ups a long way from their ‘garage’ days. Many of them pioneers in their space, these online companies have today evolved into popular global brands and the key people behind them deck up the global rich list. Here’ a profile of the top 10 billionaires who made their fortune from the Web. (Pics)




1 & 2.) Sergey Brin and Larry Page – Topping the Web billionaires list are the Google duo Sergey Brin and Larry Page with a net worth of $18.7 billion and $18.6 billion respectively.

Brin, the president and head of Google’s technology division, started Google along with Page in 1998 out of a friend’s garage. Moscow-born Brin received a Bachelor of Science degree with honours in mathematics and computer sciences from the University of Maryland.

He is currently on leave from the PhD programme in computer science at Stanford University, where he received his master’s degree. Brin continues to share responsibility for day-to-day operations along with Page and Schmidt.

Larry Page is Google’s founding CEO and grew the company to be the behemoth it is today. In 2001, he moved into his role as president, products. Son of a computer science professor at Michigan State University, Page’s love for computers began at age six. He earned a Bachelor of Science in engineering from the University of Michigan.

Despite getting Eric Schmidt (chief executive of Google) on board, Page is still credited with being intensely involved in company’s affairs. He is said to go through CV of every employee before the person is hired at Google even today.







3.) Jeff Bezos, founder, president, CEO and chairman of Amazon.com has a net worth of $8.2 billion.

Inspired by the amazing power of Internet, Bezos created a business model that leveraged Internet’s ability to deliver huge amount of information efficiently. In 1994 he founded Amazon.com, an online bookshop. Amazon tried to compete with brick and mortar shops on three counts: lower prices, authoritative selection and a wealth of product information.

In 1997, Amazon went Public, and expanded from selling books to an online retailer with a vast portfolio of goods. Bezos started his career with Fitel, a start-up that was building a network to conduct international trade. The Princeton University graduate later went on to work as a financial analyst for DE Shaw & Co before founding Amazon in 1994.



In 2004, he founded a human spaceflight startup called Blue Origin. Bezos also has a personal investment company called Bezos Expeditions. He was named Person of the Year by Time magazine in 1999.

Though Amazon as a company may not inspire the awe, it did during its heydays, Bezos still has his name intact among the most venerable tech honchos.





4.) Pierre Omidyar – Father of online auction, Pierre Omidyar founded eBay. Ranked at no. 4 in the Web billionaires list, Omidyar’s net worth is $7.7 billion.

French-born computer programmer, Pierre developed fascination for computers in high school and graduated from Tufts University in 1988 with a degree in Computer Science. After graduation he worked for Claris, a subsidiary of Apple Computer, developing software for the Macintosh.

In 1991, he co-founded Ink Development Corp with three friends. The company included an Internet shopping segment and was later renamed eShop Inc. In 1996, eShop was sold to Microsoft.

Intrigued by the technical problem of establishing an online venue for direct person-to-person auction of collectible items, he created a simple prototype on his personal Web page, and launched an online service called Auction Web in 1995. The revenue soon started pouring, with business expanding by word of mouth. In 1997, Omidyar changed the company’s name to eBay.





5.) Eric Schmidt – Chief executive of Google Eric Emerson Schmidt ranks at no. 5 with a net worth of $6.6 billion. Schmidt joined Google from Novell, where he led the company’s strategic planning, management and technology development as chairman and CEO.

Prior to his appointment at Novell, Schmidt was chief technology officer and corporate executive officer at Sun Microsystems Inc, where he led the development of Java, Sun’s platform-independent programming technology, and defined Sun’s Internet software strategy.

Before joining Sun in 1983, he was a member of the research staff at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and also held positions at Bell Laboratories and Zilog. He is generally acknowledged as the one who catapulted Google from being a promising tech company to a universal ‘God of Internet’. Schmidt has a degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University, and a Master’s and PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.





6.) Jeffrey Skoll – eBay’s first president and second-largest shareholder, Jeffrey Skoll has a net worth of $3.6 billion.

He served as director of eBay from December 1996 to March 1998. An Internet pioneer, Skoll served as eBay’s vice president strategic planning and analysis in February 1998, its president from August 1996 to February 1998.

One of the eBay cofounders, Skoll left the company and turned his attention to making movies and philanthropy. He was executive producer of North Country, starring Charlize Theron, and two George Clooney films, including Syriana. Skoll was also the executive producer of An Inconvenient Truth, the global-warming documentary that featured former Vice President Al Gore.

Skoll served as channel marketing manager for Knight-Ridder Information Inc, an online information services company, from July 1995 to July 1996. Prior to this, Skoll served as president of Skoll Engineering, a systems consulting firm, that he founded.

He was also the co-founder of Micros on the Move, a computer rentals company, as an adjunct to Skoll Engineering in 1990. He also serves as director at Community Foundation Silicon Valley and Ingenio Inc.

Graduating in BASC Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, he later pursued MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.





7.) Shi Yuzhu – Founder of China’s third-largest online games company, Zhengtu, Shi Yuzhu has a net worth of $2.8 billion.

He recently listed the company on NYSE Euronext. Almost half of his fortune comes from stakes in financial institutions China Minsheng Banking and Huaxia Bank.

Shanghai’s richest resident, Yuzhu was born in Huanyuan of Anhui Province. He graduated in Mathematics from Zhejiang University in 1984 and pursued software master degree from Shengzhen University.

A few years later, he made his first million by selling his own software, and established the company Giant Group in 1991. Later in 1996, due to the over investment in Giant Building project and mismanagement, the Company fell into abyss of finance.

Yuzhu later become an expert in capital operation, and paid back to the public small investors in Giant Building project. In 2004,Yuzhu sold his production technology, assembly line and brand by 1.2 billion Yuan RMB.



8.) Hiroshi Mikitani is the man behind online shopping mall Rakuten, one of the Japan’s most popular Web destination. With a net worth of $2.6 billion, Mikitani is Japan’s leading Internet entrepreneur.

Mikitani last year moved his company’s headquarters from chic Roppongi neighborhood into cheaper bayside Tokyo. He reportedly treats employees to free meals with extra money. He also plans to launch e-commerce business in Taiwan. Mikitani is an MBA from Harvard University.







9.) Mark Cuban – Next on the list is Mark Cuban, the founder of Broadcast.com, HDNet, and several other companies. With a net worth of $2.6 billion, Cuban has also been an angel investor for several startups including SlideShare, Goowy, RedSwoosh, Box.net, Weblogs Inc and Mahalo.

Having worked as a bartender and a salesperson, Cuban started MicroSolutions in 1986, a systems integrator and software reseller. In 1990, Cuban sold MicroSolutions to CompuServe, then a subsidiary of H&R Block for $6 million.

In 1995, he started Audionet with a fellow friend, which later became Broadcast.com in 1998. During the dotcom boom, Broadcast.com was acquired by Yahoo for $5.9 billion in stock.

A passionate basketball fan, Cuban bought Dallas Mavericks, an NBA basketball team, from Ross Perot in 2000 for $285 million. He also serves as a chairman of HDNet, an HDTV cable network. Cuban also plans to build his media empire.



10.) David Filo - The tenth richest Web billionaire is David Filo with a net worth of $2.5 billion. Co-founder of Yahoo Inc, David Filo met Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang as Stanford grad student.

A native of Moss Bluff, Louisiana, he co-created the Yahoo Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with Jerry Yang. Filo is credited of having bought 40 per cent stake in Alibaba.com for $1 billion in 2005.

Filo serves as a key technologist, directing the technical operations behind the company’s global network of Web properties. He is credited with helping build Yahoo into the world’s most highly trafficked website and one of the Internet’s most recognised brands.

Filo holds a BS degree in computer engineering from Tulane University and an MS degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.

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Edwin Clarke has taken over Delta State

ikrendo, that is not a good thing for jonathan. What it means is that the state the PDP election is be cancelled, PDP are going to find it hard to win. You now imagine a presidential election without a governorship election. It makes it even hard for Jonathan to win.

warri population

  *      1952 British Census (Warri Division)

          Itsekiri                                                33,000

          The Ijaw of Gbaramatu and Ogbe Ijo          232

see satelllite pictures.

If an award in computer is worth $1000 it tell you , it is not worth anything.

Computer field has billionaires. google owner ,facebook, bill gate.

What damn, read the agreement, it only remove the french but the treaty was sign with french. And it talk of about the border, Get what it talk about the border.  And read who really is in control of the land.  If it is benin republic or Nigeria.

I am still reading through the document. I would tell you more.

The 1999 constitution state, you dont need the president assent to amend the constitution. Clearly written in bold letters.  It only requires the national assembly to present the bill to amend the constitution to the president. If the president fail to sign, the amendment. The amendment would be return to the national assembly and they make a decision. see the constitution of the federal republic of nigeria. 

It does not require the president to sign.

Gordon Bell Priz is worth $1000

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Who own Edo,delta and yorubaland, Is it Benin republic or Nigeria.

History says the french union now Benin republic were the one who first sign treaty in 1888. A treaty was sign with Benin republic (french union) But the british saw that the french were signing treaty. even while the british were the one who came there first, but they did not sign a treaty. they just did business. The british had to approach the french in a gentle man agreement . Technically in law you may say Benin republic own the land.

DapoBear , where are you getting that from. i went to take some course here in canada, when the professor only worked for IBM. And he does not have a PHD. And it was in the area of engineering.

How do you think white people transfer knowledge from the science world to the universities. If you are into accademic all your life. You dont have update of new technology. THe new technology are transfer to people in the accademic field through workers in places like IBM, Microsoft, google etc.

Look I am not boosting, but I know many thing a professor in the field of computer have no clue to . Do you think I can transfer something to him. The problem in nigeria is that people are too proud to learn. So assume because they have a PHD they are superior to others. That is not so. PHD does not make you superior. I am telling I know s many thing in the field of computer science , if you put all the professor of computer science, they all would not find solution to it.


If I die with what I know, how do the next generation benefit from it. It because a waste. Even if you look at some of the information I give on nigeria history most professor of history in nigeria, do not know them. That  why they give them professorship even when they do not have a PHD to be able to transfer knowledge.

You dont need a PHD to be a  Professor, Even with a bachelor you can become an adjunct professor.   It is more of a title. But in Nigeria, you need a PHD to become a professor and another  6 to 10 work experience after the PHD. It is two different society, two different system. i can be hired as a Professor in a university, but another university may not accept you.


In nigeria Philip Emeagwali would not be given the status of a professor. because fraud is said to be involve. One of the requirement involve been fraud free.  but you can transfer it if you have the requirement.

which oil dey south east you make laugh. you be ogbologbo 419.

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if you track EzeUche0 IP, you discover, he may likely be Nuhu Ribadua or one of his clone or IBB boys.

And Gowon is still alive. Gowon agreed in aburi for peace, but IBB and some northerners did not agree for peace, but end result 1,000,000 igbos where killed.


We are back to 1960, Jonathan goodluck can put himself into the history books by becoming a  mikhail gorbachev or even do better. like in the case of  Eritrea and ethiopia, is like nigeria like. ethiopia had a Tigrinya man as president, just like Jonathan Goodluck, Eritrea are Tigrinya. And people assume since they had a Tigrinya man in power the country could not break up. It did. He went for peace.  His name was Meles Zenawi Asres . Meles Zenawi Asres  was a Tigrinya man, But Eritrea are Tigrinya. So he humble himself and accepted the decision of the majority of the  people. But he remain president of Ethiope.

So jonathan goodluck can make history, if he become Meles Zenawi Asres and Jonathan Goodlcuk let the south go and he continue to rule the north. If not nigeria may end up in civil war.

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eze come back here.

First of all you painted zik has an hero. he stood by, while they killed 50,000 igbos and another 1,000,000 igbos.  I just want us to get the fact right. Zik is not an hero. at least not my own hero. You see here is my reason. When northerners murder Igbos, what was the response of zik and Ojukwu. Instead of zik supporting Ojukwu , he refused because of his person ambition. Is that a good man. 50,000 of his people were murder for no reason based on thier fault.

I am not a person who is scared to rewrite the history of Nigeria. we would have avoid the killing of 1,000,000 igbos , if zik was not a selfish man, and if his personal ambition he put aside and work for the common goal of people . if zik spoke against the killing at that time. There would never been a civil war. And 1,000,000 igbos would still be alive.(same thing jonathan is about to do, if he does not break up nigeria. his person or your lifes, mikhail gorbachev broke his nation)


You talk of 20 pound. You must ask yourself this question. what could 20 pound worth do then. a teacher salary was about 10 pound. And teachers at that times, where the most highly paid people. Teachers , then where likes gods. 

Do you want to tell me every igbo man was a teacher. NO.? most igbos where making less than 5 pound before the war.

2 How many igbos put thier money in banks, at that time. Not many . but when you compare to how many igbos made claim of having bank account. less than 1% of igbos put thier money into bank at that time. but nearly 99% igbos got more than 20 pound. Got from the Yorubas. or do you think northerners who killed 1,000,000 igbos were the one who gave them that money. NO. It was the yoruba people.


3. It should be on record that awolowo 20 pound that he gave the igbos, put the Yoruba people into disadvantage in business till today. Many igbos got money. what did you yorubas get for the war. Nothing.

It would be noted the fraud that was also involve in the distribution of this money.

An igbo man with a name like ikechukwu uchenna, would collect 20 pound under different names.

He would go there first as

Ike Uchenna  and collect 20 pound

the second he goes there under a new name Ikechukwu nna, he collect 20 pound

Next time he goes there, Ike uche , , he collect 20 pound

Next time, he became ikechukwu uchenna , he collect 20 pound

You he end up collecting 80 pound. This is what happened. Igbos had no ID at that time.

While the Yoruba nation was destroyed finances.because the north who started the war, had no money and they took Yoruba money to fight the igbos, while even the igbos who collect 20 pound, where collecting Yoruba money. Because it was about 1970 we really as a nation start producing serious money.

While you complaining that they gave you 20 pound of Yoruba money. What did the yorubas who they collected the money from should say.


You talk of starvation ?? I  am telling you, they ship food to biafra, and my father ship  carry food to igbos was attacked by biafra. that silly believe that they use starvation was wrong. That why my name is segun.

The story of use for many years was most use by northerner to put the blame of the civil war on chief obafemi awolowo so that they can win election. instead of them offering apology to the igbos, they put the blame on awolowo.  But the truth is, please go and ask Ojukwu, Chief Obafemi awolowo was in jail when the whole thing happen. He was in jail in the east. how can a man who is in jail be blame for starting a civil war

Emeagwali's problem is that, he need money so he does speech , also for a living. And he trys to impress the people. If not, they would not call him back and he would not make money. They call it spin over here.  life may be hard for Emeagwali's than people think. television camera does not show your pocket. I dont think he should say some of the things he says. people make mistake , when they do speech and make up story.

When you look at internet content provider and software design, Philip Emeagwali  is not knew.


The internet was invented by the US Department of Defense in the year 1969 as a means of communication if it was attacked by Russia. Philip Emeagwali was born in 1954. In 1969 Philip Emeagwali was in nigeria , when the internet was invented.

Although many engineers worked in the 1950s and 1960s to create "supercomputers," the completion of the invention and design of the first supercomputer (CDC 6600 in 1964) is attributed to American electrical engineer, Seymour R. Cray.



is the satellite picture fake. No. Please contact google.

EzeUche0: You would be able to find 1 bad thing Awolowo did against the Igbo

please name that thing, he did?

look at dakar and many african countries, they have done much for themself. we can do it.

ask

dede, no post it again. you are covered. take my mouth.

Border of Nigeria , after Ilaro, Yorubas towns and villages in benin republic.