The Richest Internet Entrepreneurs

Larry Page and Sergey Brin are collectively worth $35 billion dollars.

It’s been a long time since the first internet boom, and for years we’ve been hearing stories about people getting very rich off one little smart idea. But it’s still pretty amazing, and kind of annoying, to see just how much money the folks at the top of the heap have to throw around. BBC just released its list of the richest internet entrepreneurs, and there are some shocking numbers on there.

Tied for number one on the list are the two founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin. They’re both in their mid-30′s, they both love collared shirts, and they’re each worth $17.5 Billion US dollars. Though, to be fair, that’s just their wealth on paper…if they had to raise cash for a big bender in Vegas, they could probably only rustle up five or six billion each.

The youngest, and therefore most jealousy-evoking, guy on any list of internet billionaires, is Mark Zuckerberg. By now you probably know the story. He created Facebook when he was just a young university student. Six years later, we all spend half our online life on his site while he tries to think of ways to spend his $4 billion dollar fortune.

Other familiar names on the list are Mark Cuban, who’s turned his $2.4 billion fortune into a life of sitting courtside and screaming at basketball players, and Jeff Bezos, who started Amazon.com in his garage, about $12.3 billion dollars ago.

And is it just me, or does the thought of all that that cash kind of make isildur1′s latest roller-coaster ride on the high-stakes tables seem penny-ante?