Locals Proliferate New Forbes 400 List of World's Billionaires

San Francisco -- Larry Ellison, the founder of Redwood Shores-based Oracle, is the highest-ranked Bay Area technology executive on the newly released Forbes 400 list of the world's richest people. Ellison comes in at No. 6 with a net worth of $28 billion. Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the co-founders of Mountain View-based Google both rank No. 24 at $17.5 billion each. Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu tops the list with a net worth of approximately $53.5 billion, followed by Bill Gates ($53 billion) and Warren Buffett ($47 billion). The complete rankings are available at the link below.
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