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SoCal technology billionaires

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Forbes has just posted their list of the World’s richest billionaires. Southern California’s contribution from the technology industry:

  • #462, John Tu ($2.5B) - founder of Fountain Valley-based memory manufacturer Kingston Technology
  •  #553, Alfred Mann ($2.2B) - founder of Medtronic, PaceSetter, Minimed, and MannKind.
  • #652 Henry Samueli ($1.9B), co-founder of Broadcom
  • #677 Henry Nicholas III ($1.8B), co-founder of Broadcom
  • #785 Alec Gores ($1.5B), Gores Group
  • #785 Theodore Waitt ($1.5B), Gateway