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Meta, Oracle, Nvidia and Google Founders Add $32.2bn in a Day as AI, Cloud Boom Reshapes Global Wealth

by Joan Aimuengheuwa
August 5, 2025
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Meta, Oracle, Nvidia and Google Founders Add $32.2bn in a Day
Jensen Huang, Nvidia co-founder and Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Jensen Huang, Nvidia co-founder and Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg

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Five of the world’s richest technology leaders saw their fortunes swell by a combined $32.2 billion in a single day, driven by surging investment in artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure.

Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg and Oracle’s Larry Ellison had the highest, each adding $9 billion to their net worth.

Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang followed with $5.4 billion, while Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin gained $4.5 billion and $4.3 billion respectively.

The windfall results from the deepening concentration of wealth and influence among Silicon Valley’s most powerful figures. 

These are not fleeting market blips, the growth is tied to the technologies reshaping everything from global communications to financial systems.

Zuckerberg, now the third-richest person in the world with $267.7 billion, controls about 13% of Meta. The company’s stock has risen 40% since April 2025, driven by AI-powered advertising and smart glasses. 

Back in 2015, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, pledged to donate 99% of their Meta shares over their lifetimes, one of the most noteworthy philanthropic promises of the modern era.

Just ahead of him in the global rankings is Ellison, whose $298.3 billion fortune places him second only to Elon Musk. The Oracle co-founder stepped down as CEO in 2014 but still drives the company’s strategic acquisitions. He lives permanently on the Hawaiian island of Lanai, which he purchased almost entirely for $300 million in 2012.

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Huang’s rise is perhaps the most emblematic of the AI era. Nvidia, once a graphics card specialist, now dominates AI hardware. In Q1 2026, its data centre division alone generated $39 billion, 89% of its revenue, with forecasts pointing to $200 billion for the fiscal year. 

Under Huang’s leadership, Nvidia’s valuation topped $3 trillion in 2024. His net worth now stands at $156.6 billion.

Page and Brin, despite stepping back from Google’s daily operations in 2019, remain among the most influential figures in tech. Their stakes in Alphabet keep their fortunes at $160.3 billion and $153 billion respectively, built on the algorithms they pioneered more than two decades ago.

As of August 2025, eight of the world’s ten wealthiest people are tech leaders, including Musk, Ellison, Zuckerberg, Page, Brin, Huang, Steve Ballmer, and Jeff Bezos. 

Their combined wealth stands at $2.1 trillion, up $100 billion since July. In total, 450 tech billionaires control an estimated $5.2 trillion, representing nearly one-third of all billionaire wealth.

The ongoing AI boom is creating new billionaires in semiconductors, cloud platforms, and generative AI startups like Anthropic and CoreWeave. Yet the same trend is intensifying debates over monopolies, digital inequality, and the vast control a handful of companies wield over critical infrastructure.

As an analyst stated, “This isn’t just a story about money, it’s a story about who owns the future.”

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