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Five Indian-Americans in Forbes Annual List of 400 Billionaires

Five Indian-Americans have been named the richest people in the US by Forbes, a leading source for business news and financial information. There are 400 billionaires in the richest list topped by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Bill Gates, 56, whose net worth grew by 7 billion dollars from the last year to USD 66 billion topped the list for the 19th year. He is followed by Warren Buffet with net worth of USD 46 billion, also up by 7 billion dollars from the last year. Lary Ellison ranked 3rd in the list with USD 41 billion, grew up by USD 8 billion last year.

  • The Indian-American, Desai, 59, founder of Syntel ranked 239 in Forbes’ list with a net worth of 2 billion dollars.
  • The Founder and Chairman of the Symphony technology Group, Romesh Wadhwani ranked 250 in Forbes’ list with a net worth of USD 1.9 billion.
  • Kavitark Ram Shriram, board member and shareholder of Google, ranked 298 in Forbes’ list with a net worth of USD 1.6 billion.
  • Manoj Bhargava, founder and CEO of the popular energy drink ‘5-hour energy’ ranked 311 in Forbes’ list with a net worth of USD 1.5 billion.
  • Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla ranked 328 in Forbes’ list with a net worth of USD 1.4 billion.