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Value Delivered List
Ranked by career VDS: live company value not held by the credited person, plus frozen co-founder historical exits. Not a rich list.
Data as of Jul 14, 2026. Live public market caps can refresh via automation; historical exits stay frozen at event time. Read the methodology before citing.
| Rank | Person | VDS | Retained | Externalized | Companies | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Jensen Huang Co-founder, president & CEO of NVIDIA As of Jul 14, 2026 | $4.9T | $183.6B | 96.4% | NVIDIA | High confidence |
| #2 | Bill Gates Co-founder of Microsoft As of Jul 14, 2026 | $2.8T | $37.3B | 98.7% | Microsoft | Medium confidence |
| #3 | Jeff Bezos Founder of Amazon; founder of Blue Origin As of Jul 14, 2026 | $2.4T | $351B | 87.4% | Amazon, Blue Origin | Medium confidence |
| #4 | Elon Musk CEO of Tesla & SpaceX; co-founder of Neuralink & The Boring Company As of Jul 14, 2026 | $2.3T | $986.5B | 69.6% | Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, The Boring Company | Medium confidence |
| #5 | Larry Page Co-founder of Google / Alphabet As of Jul 14, 2026 | $2.1T | $129.9B | 48.5% | Alphabet | Medium confidence |
| #6 | Sergey Brin Co-founder of Google / Alphabet As of Jul 14, 2026 | $2.1T | $129.9B | 48.5% | Alphabet | Medium confidence |
| #7 | Mark Zuckerberg Founder, chairman & CEO of Meta As of Jul 14, 2026 | $1.4T | $225.4B | 86.5% | Meta Platforms | High confidence |
| #8 | Warren Buffett Builder of Berkshire Hathaway As of Jul 14, 2026 | $903B | $147B | 86.0% | Berkshire Hathaway | Medium confidence |
| #9 | Reed Hastings Co-founder of Netflix As of Jul 14, 2026 | $318.4B | $1.6B | 99.5% | Netflix | Medium confidence |
| #10 | Larry Ellison Co-founder & CTO of Oracle As of Jul 14, 2026 | $224.2B | $155.8B | 59.0% | Oracle | High confidence |
| #11 | Marc Benioff Co-founder, chairman & CEO of Salesforce As of Jul 14, 2026 | $165.8B | $4.3B | 97.5% | Salesforce | Medium confidence |
| #12 | Michael Dell Founder, chairman & CEO of Dell Technologies As of Jul 14, 2026 | $82.5B | $67.5B | 55.0% | Dell Technologies | High confidence |
| #13 | Daniel Ek Co-founder & CEO of Spotify As of Jul 14, 2026 | $80.8B | $14.3B | 85.0% | Spotify | Medium confidence |
| #14 | Brian Chesky Co-founder & CEO of Airbnb As of Jul 14, 2026 | $80.1B | $9.9B | 89.0% | Airbnb | Medium confidence |
| #15 | Brian Armstrong Co-founder & CEO of Coinbase As of Jul 14, 2026 | $34.4B | $7.6B | 82.0% | Coinbase | Medium confidence |