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The Indian-Americans' list is topped by Bharat
Desai and family with a net worth of $2 billion in the 239th
place.
(Photo:
ummid.com) |
Washington: Five
Indian-Americans figure in the Forbes magazine's annual list of
the richest people in America with Microsoft Corp chairman Bill
Gates retaining his top spot with $66 billion, up $7 billion from
2011.
He is followed by Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s Warren Buffett (No. 2)
with $46 billion, also up $7 billion from last year, and Oracle
Corp's Larry Ellison (No. 3) with $41 billion, up $8 billion - and
the biggest dollar gainer this year.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has been pushed down in the
rankings to the no. 36 spot with his estimated net worth falling
by about $8 billion to $9.4 billion since Facebook went public in
May.
The Indian-Americans' list is topped by Bharat Desai and family
with a net worth of $2 billion in the 239th place. Kenya-born
Bharat Desai started as a programmer for Tata Consultancy
Services, only to leave the company four years later to start
Syntel with his wife.
Next comes Romesh T. Wadhwani (No. 250), Founder and Chairman,
Symphony Technology Group, with a net worth of $1.9 billion.
Landing in the US with only a few dollars in his pocket, he
developed business software firm Aspect Development. Today his
portfolio includes more than 10 different enterprise software
companies.
Third on the Indian-American list is Kavitark Ram Shriram (No.
298), Managing Partner, Sherpalo Ventures, with a net worth of
$1.6 billion. He was one of the first people to write a check to
Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1998.
Next comes Indian-born Manoj Bhargava (No. 311) with a net worth
of $1.5 billion. His two-ounce caffeine and vitamin elixir, 5-Hour
Energy, promises to keep users alert without crashing -- and
claims a 90 percent-plus market share in the energy shot sector
Last on the Indian-American list is Venture capitalist Vinod
Khosla (No. 328) with a net worth of $1.4 billion. With a firm
belief that the future lies in developing cleaner energy sources,
the Khosla Ventures founder was a big backer of biofuel producers
Kior and Gevo, both of which went public in 2011, according to
Forbes.
(Arun Kumar can
be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)
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