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The internet has seen some of the youngest million and even billionaires in the world. In this post you will see the top 5 richest internet entrepreneurs and how they did it.

1.Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Both of these are computer scientists Founded Google in 1996. Since then Google has grown to be the most popular search engine in the world. Google was different than other search engines as it ordered searches in page rank instead of how many times they had been clicked on. Google is now much more than a search engine and is even in the mobile phone market with their android devices. Larry Page and Sergey Brin announced in January 2011 that they are now worth $19.8 billion each.

2.Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos is the founder of amazon. He created amazon in a garage in seattle. Amazon Started in 1995 as a online bookstore. Since then it has gown into one of the biggest stores online. Jeff Bezos Is now worth over $18.1 billion.

3.Masayoshi Son

Masayoshi son is the founder of SoftBank which is japans largest internet chat site. He launched his website in 2001 and by 2011 he is thought to be worth over $8 billion. SoftBank also owns Vodafone K after buying from Vodafone and also has shares in yahoo.

4. Pierre Omidyar

Pierre omidyar is a french born american who launched Ebay in 1995. Since 1995 Ebay has grown rapidaly and  Pierre omidyar is now worth over $6.7 billion. In 2004 he set up the Omidyar network.

5.Hiroshi Mikitani

Hiroshi Mikitani is the founder of Rakuten which is japans largest shopping mall. His website was first launched in in 1997. His website now has over 50 million registered users.  He is now worth more than $5 billion.

In this post you have seen the top 5 internet rich entrepreneurs. Hopefully you have been inspired to start a internet business today.

 

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