Microsoft founder Bill Gates with an estimated fortune of $78 billion heads the list
Five Indian-Americans have been named among the 400 richest people in the US by Forbes, a list topped by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates for the 21st year in a row with a net worth of $81 billion.
Bill Gates with an estimated wealth of $86 billion topped the list for the fourth year running.
In addition to Pichai and Nadella, IBM's Arvind Krishna, Micron's Sanjay Mehrotra, Ajay Banga from Mastercard and Ann Mukherjee from Pernod are among the six Indian-Americans among over 200 corporate honchos who will advise the President and offer recommendations on how to revive the American economy.
Shailendra Kumar, MD, Oracle India, details the India plan.
The reason for the windfall: the soaring value of their stock awards.
The seven Indian-Americans are cybersecurity firm ZScaler CEO Jay Chaudhry, founder and chairman of Symphony Technology Group Romesh Wadhwani, cofounder and CEO of online home goods retailer Wayfair Niraj Shah, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Khosla Ventures founder Vinod Khosla, managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures Kavitark Ram Shriram, Airline veteran Rakesh Gangwal and Workday CEO and co-founder Aneel Bhusri.
None of the Big Tech companies or tycoons appears to be playing a meaningful role in the testing, spread, cure, or eradication of the virus or even in contact tracing so far, says Prosenjit Datta.
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In the Forbes rich list Mukesh Ambani is ranked 39th.
The company's buy of Concur will strengthen its position in cloud computing
All this is happening at a time when aluminium prices in the world market are firming up.
Premji is ranked 13th on Forbes' first ever list of '100 Richest People In Tech', followed by Nadar on the 14th spot.
Satya Nadella is the highest-paid CEO in the US. So how do the other Indian-American executives fare?
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