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The richest people in America have a lot in common.

First of all, these are all men who mostly work in the technology field. Almost all of them made their fortune by opening their own companies and retaining ownership of them. In fact, 7 of 10 richest people in America are among the ten richest people in the world.

American billionaires have several common quirks: the founder Microsoft Bill Gates, CEO Facebook Mark Zuckerberg, Founder Oracle Larry Ellison, did not finish college. Jeff Bezos, Larry Page and Sergey Brin went to Montessori schools, where children were asked to think independently and creatively, rather than follow the traditional rules. And yet, apparently, billionaires really love at home in Hawaii.

The richest people in America donate a lot of money to things they care about. Some of the men on this list donated hundreds of millions to research aimed at improving human life and eradicating dangerous diseases such as Alzheimer's and cancer. Warren Buffett, Gates, Zuckerberg and Allison took another step forward and promised to give up their fortune as part of The giving pledge , an initiative developed by Buffett and Gates to encourage billionaires to channel their enormous wealth to charity.

Here is all you need to know about the rich people in America.

1. Jeff bezos

Industry: Technology

Net Value: $ 109,9 billion

53-year-old Bezos became the richest man in history.

Before Bezos started selling books online, a business that eventually became an e-commerce giant Amazon.comAfter graduating from Princeton, he worked at a hedge fund in New York.

Amazon.com Bezos began to create the future from his garage in Seattle in 1994.

But Amazon.com Bezos is known for having bought the newspaper The Washington Post for $ 250 million in 2013 year and the aerospace company Blue Origin.
Bezos lives with his wife and four children in Medina, Washington. He owns 5 homes as well as a ranch in 290 000 acres in Texas where the headquarters is located Blue Origin. Such ownership makes it one of the largest landowners in the United States. TIME called him the man of the year in 1999.

2. Bill Gates

Industry: Technology

Net Value: $ 93,3 billion

Gates, 62, is a prominent entrepreneur who co-founded a software company in 1975. Microsoft. Gates made his fortune mainly due to the growth of the company's shares.

Gates grew up in Seattle. In high school, he met his future partner, Paul Allen, with whom he founded Microsoft. Both became obsessed with computers and even created their first business, a traffic data system, while still in school.

Gates became a millionaire in 31 a year after Microsoft gained public importance in 1986 year. In the 21 century, the billionaire became famous for his commitment to philanthropy and, with his wife Melinda, in 2000, he founded the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Gates Foundation aims to address global issues such as world hunger and the empowerment of people in poor communities.

Gates currently lives in Medina, Washington, in the same area as Jeff Bezos.

3. Warren buffett

Industry: Finance and Investments

Net Value: $ 87,2 billion

87-year-old Buffett is one of the richest people in America who could succeed without the help of technology. Known as Oracle Omaha, Buffett is the chairman and CEO of a public trading investment firm. Berkshire Hathaway.

Most of his wealth is related to the 18% stake in the business. Buffett is known as a valuable investor.

He bought the first shares in 11 years, and in 13 years he filed his first tax return of $ 35 for his bicycle.

4. Mark Zuckerberg

Industry: Technology

Net Value: $ 77,5 billion

33-year-old Zuckerberg is another Harvard graduate who made his fortune at his own technology company. This was also a film shot.

He is co-founder and CEO Facebook, the largest social network in the world.

Zuckerberg owns real estate throughout the country, whose value is estimated at $ 175 million.

He usually calls home Palo Alto, California, where he lives with his two daughters and his wife Priscilla Chan, whom he began dating at Harvard.

Together the couple started the campaign Chan-Zuckerbergwhere invested $ 3 billion. The goal of this campaign is the treatment of diseases and the development of new technologies for research.

5. Larry Page

Industry: Technology

Net Value: $ 54,9 billion

44-year-old Paige - one of the founders Google and now the CEO of his own company Alphabet. His business partner Sergey Brin (#7 is on the list of the richest people in America), working on his doctorate at Stanford.

Paige earned much of his fortune by creating Googlewhich, in turn, invested in hundreds of startups.

Page was fascinated by computers at an early age and adopted a passion for technology from his parents, who taught computer science at Michigan State University.

Page lives in Palo Alto with his wife, a research scientist and two children.

6. Larry Ellison

Industry: Technology

Net Value: $ 54,7 billion

Ellison, 73, is another college graduate who co-founded software in 1977. Oracle. Besides the fact that he owns 25% of the company, he also owns the Hawaiian island of Lanai, a sailing team and even a tennis tournament, reports New York Times.

At the age of nine months he was adopted. Adoptive parents wanted him to become a doctor, but Allison left medical school when he realized that he was not interested in medicine. He moved to California and worked as a programmer, climbing instructor, and tour guide.

After trying a few jobs, Allison eventually became part of a company that is working on creating a new software database. This company will become Oracle - one of the world's largest software companies.

Allison, like the other titans on this list, is interested in extending human life and has allocated over 330 million dollars for research on aging and related diseases.

Being divorced 4, Allison has two adult children. His home, he considers the property worth 70 million dollars in Woodside, California. In addition, he owns real estate in Japan, San Francisco, Malibu, Lake Tahoe and Rhode Island.

7. Sergey Brin

Industry: Technology

Net Value: $ 53,3 billion

Brin's 44-year-old also created his fortune in the technology industry, becoming one of the legendary co-founders Google with Larry Page (# 5).

Born in the USSR, Bryn moved to the USA with his family when he was 6 years old. The Jewish family migrated because of anti-Semitism in their home country.

Brin donated nearly $50 million to Parkinson's research after discovering he had a genetic mutation that predisposes him to the disease. He also gave $1 million to the Jewish Immigrant Aid Society, the organization that helped him leave Russia as a child.

8,9. Koch Brothers: Charles and David

Industry: Conglomerate

Net Value: $ 48,6 billion

82-year-old Charles and 77-year-old David occupy the 8 and 9 position of the richest people in America.

Charles is chairman and CEO Koch Industries, a conglomerate in Kansas with an annual income of 100 billion dollars. David is the company's vice president, they both own the 42% of the company.

The brothers graduated from MIT with degrees in engineering and continued the family business after graduation.

In 1976, Charles founded a libertarian center called Cato Institute.

The Koch brothers are politically active. They donated hundreds of millions of dollars to Republicans.

10. Rob Walton

Industry: Retail

Net Value: $ 47,9 billion

73-year-old Walton, the eldest son of the founder Walmart Sam Walton and former director of the company. He resigned as director in 2015 year after 23 years of work.

Most of the wealth Walton earned by growing stocks in the company. According to Bloomberg, He owns about 13% of the family business.

Before going to work for his father in the world's largest retail store, Walton played football at the University of Arkansas and graduated Columbia Law School.

He owns several properties, including a home in Aspen, Colorado, and another in Paradise Valley, Arizona, and recently acquired 1500 hectares of land in Hawaii where he wants to build a resort.

Walton currently lives in Bentonville, Arkansas, with his wife and three children.

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