Top 25 Richest Internet Entrepreneurs in the Wolrd

I think the 'brick and mortar' business models will always be around, but I have always believed, in this time and age, the fastest way to become a huge success is to go digital. Take your business online, whatever it is. It can be real estate, or a dating service, or a magazine, or a social media site. The magic is in numbers, and there is no where else you find more people to view your product/service, for a cheap marketing fee than on the internet. I am in-love with this way to success, and it made me put together this list of the top 25 richest internet entrepreneurs in the world.

This list includes what they make annually. I know a lot of lists put up their net worth, but I feel that wont give you an idea of the cash these people actually control. Check out the list below, and be inspired to shoot for the stars. Some of the businesses these people started are not even up to ten years in existence. Think about that.

25. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim  (founders of Youtube)- Annual income of $300 million

24. Mark Zuckerberg (founder of Facebook)- Annual income of $300 million

23. Jack Ma (founder of Alibaba.com)- Annual income of $316 million

22. Eric Baker (StubHub)- Annual income of $400 million

21. Robb Brock (Buy.com) Annual income of $400 million

20. Zhang Chaoyang (Sohu)- Annual income of $429 million

19. Niklas Zennstrom (Skype)- Annual income of $550 million

18. Tom Anderson (MySpace)- Annual income of $800 million

17. Robert Brazell (Overstock)- Annual income of $834 million

16. Jeff Katz (Orbitz)- Annual income of $870 million

15. Erik Prince (AOL)- Annual income of $968 million

14. David Litman (Hotels.com)- Annual income of $1 billion

!3. Nick Swinmurn (Zappos)- Annual income of $1 billion

12. Terry Jones (Travelocity)- Annual income of $1.1 billion

11. Reed Hastings (Netflix)- Annual income of $1.2 billion

10. Mark Shroeder (Expedia) Annual income of $1.5 billion

9.  Jesse Fink (Priceline)- Annual income of $1.9 billion

8.  Marshal Vace (Reuters)- Annual income of $1.9 billion

7.  Jeff Robin (iTunes)- Annual income of $1.9 billion

6.  Max Levchin, Peter Thiel,  and Luke Nosek (PayPal)- Annual income of 2.2 billion

5.  Nathan Myhrvold (MSN/Live)- Annual income of $3.2 billion

4.  Pierre Omidyar (eBay)- Annual income of $6.3 billion

3.  Jerry Yang and David Filo (Yahoo)- Annual income of $7.2 billion

2.  Jeff Bezos (Amazon)- Annual income of $19.2 billion





1.  Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Google)- Annual income of 21.8 billion