Forbes released its list of the world’s billionaires and it looks like the U.S. tech billionaires took a pretty hefty hit from the economic crisis. The 40 tech billionaires we identified on the list collectively lost $81.5 billion compared to their standing in last year’s list. That is a drop in the bucket compared to the $1.4 trillion in net worth that disappeared from the entire Forbes’ list, which also saw the total number of billionaires drop to 793 from 1,125, the first year-to-year decrease since 2003.
| 2009 Rank (2008) | Name (Company) | Net Worth | Change From 2008 |
| #1 (#3) | William Gates III (Microsoft) | $40.0 billion | -$18.0 billion |
| #4 (#14) | Larry Ellison (Oracle) | $22.5 billion | -$2.5 billion |
| #17 (#65) | Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg) | $16 billion | +$5 billion |
| #29 (#40) | Michael Dell (Dell) | $12.3 billion | -$4.1 billion |
| #26 (#32) | Sergey Brin (Google) | $12 billion | -$6.7 billion |
| #26 (#33) | Larry Page (Google) | $11 billion | -$4 billion |
| #29 (#43) | Steven Ballmer (Microsoft) | $11 billion | -$4 billion |
| #32 (#41) | Paul Allen (Microsoft) | $10.5 billion | -$5.5 billion |
| #68 (#110) | Jeffrey Bezos (Amazon) | $6.8 billion | -$1.4 billion |
| #119 (#142) | Eric Schmidt (Google) | $4.4 billion | -$2.2 billion |
| #132 (#109) | Rupert Murdoch (News Corp.) | $4 billion | -$4.3 billion |
| #146 (#87) | Charles Ergen (EchoStar) | $3.9 billion | -$5.6 billion |
| #156 (#120) | Pierre Omidyar (Ebay) | $3.6 billion | -$4.4 billion |
| #178 (#189) | Steven Jobs (Apple) | $3.4 billion | -$2 billion |
| #196 (#236) | John Sall (SAS Institute) | $3.1 billion | -$1.3 billion |
| #205 (#277) | George Lucas (LucasArts) | $3.0 billion | -$0.9 billion |
| #246 (#288) | Gordon Moore (Intel) | $2.6 billion | -$1.1 billion |
| #261 (#462) | David Sun (Kingston Technologies) | $2.5 billion | 0 |
| #261 (#462) | John Tu (Kingston Technologies) | $2.5 billion | 0 |
| #296 (#446) | Mark Cuban (Broadcast.com) | $2.3 billion | -$0.3 billion |
| #296 (#307) | Ray Dolby (Dolby) | $2.3 billion | -$1.2 billion |
| #397 (#286) | Jeffrey Skoll (Ebay) | $1.8 billion | -$1.8 billion |
| #430 (#503) | William Randolph Hearst III (Media, Kleiner Perkins) | $1.7 billion | -$0.7 billion |
| #468 (#652) | Thomas Siebel (Siebel Systems) | $1.5 billion | -$0.4 billion |
| #522 (#605) | Andreas von Bechtolsheim (Sun, Google investor) | $1.4 billion | -$0.6 billion |
| #522 (#533) | Omid Kordestani (Google) | $1.4 billion | -$0.8 billion |
| #559 (#652) | Henry Samueli (Broadcom) | $1.3 billion | -$0.6 billion |
| #559 (#462) | Craig McCaw (McCaw Cellular) | $1.3 billion | -$1.2 billion |
| #559 (#743) | Irwin Jacobs (Qualcomm) | $1.3 billion | -$0.3 billion |
| #559 (#785) | Todd Wagner (Broadcast.com) | $1.3 billion | -$0.2 billion |
| #601 (#707) | L. John Doerr (Kleiner Perkins) | $1.2 billion | -$0.5 billion |
| #601 (#677) | Henry Nicholas III (Broadcom) | $1.2 billion | -$0.6 billion |
| #601 (#461) | David Filo (Yahoo) | $1.2 billion | -$1.3 billion |
| #647 (#785) | Vinod Khosla (Kleiner Perkins) | $1.1 billion | -$0.4 billion |
| #701 (#137) | Sumner Redstone (Viacom) | $1 billion | -$5.8 billion |
| #701 (#897) | Scott Cook (Intuit) | $1 billion | -$0.3 billion |
| #701 (#897) | David Duffield (PeopleSoft) | $1 billion | -$0.3 billion |
| #701 (#897) | Barry Diller (IAC) | $1 billion | -$0.3 billion |
| #701 (#847) | Richard Egan (EMC) | $1 billion | -$0.4 billion |
| #701 (#785) | Theodore Waitt (Gateway) | $1 billion | -$0.5 billion |
| 40 names | Totals | $203.4 billion | -$81.5 billion |
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