#tech-billionaires

#tech-billionaires

Congressional candidate Saikat Chakrabarti today donated $500,000 to support Proposition D, the June ballot measure that would raise taxes on large companies with wide pay gaps between executives and typical workers. This brings Chakrabarti's total giving to support Prop. D to $600,000, and the total supporting the measure to $2.5 million. No on D, which is backed by tech billionaires including Google co-founder Sergey Brin, venture capitalist Michael Moritz and crypto billionaire Chris Larsen, has amassed some $6.3 million.

I'm honored to once again serve one of the greatest national park sites in America and so appreciative for the opportunity, Benioff said in a statement this week, per the Chronicle. The Presidio Trust is an incredibly well-run organization that brings in support from the private sector to support its public mission. Traina, who's a fourth generation San Franciscan, heir to several fortunes, and the son of SF grande dame Dede Wilsey, served

Not me, thanks: children need the human connection the love that gives life meaning. As he works towards launching SpaceX on to the stock market, in perhaps the biggest ever such share sale, the world's richest man has every incentive to talk big. Yet as Musk waxed eccentrically about this robotic utopia, it was a reminder that major decisions about the direction of technological progress are being taken by a small number of very powerful men (and they are mainly men).

The Meta CEO overtook Amazon chairman Jeff Bezos to become the world's second-richest person for the first time in October 2024. His net worth has advanced to $229 billion since then, but he's slid to sixth place on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index as of Wednesday's close. Zuckerberg - whose company owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp - only trailed Elon Musk by $50 billion in October last year.

As we wrap up 2025, we're looking at the year's biggest winners: the people, companies, products and trends that made the most impact over the year. Almost at the top of the pile, of course, are the tech billionaires. According to a recent report by Oxfam, the 10 richest US billionaires (who are all tech leaders, save for Warren Buffet) increased their wealth by $698 billion in 2025. Some of that has been spent treating and lavishing donations on President Trump.

Some may marvel at tech tycoon's wealth, but his ideology of 'making' money at the expense of real human value makes us all poorer

With no lyrics, the nearly silent clip is set to a guitar instrumental that recalls his 2003 Crazy Horse track "Be the Rain." The video opens with coverage of the White House's East Wing demolition during the government shutdown before flashing a banner that reads, "The 1% ruins the world." It then cuts to footage of Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk on stage before displaying a tweet that reads, "The oligarchs gather & so starts the looting of America."

Size doesn't always matter, but it absolutely does in the rarefied world of superyachts. Palaces at sea have long been a status symbol for the masters of the universe, a place to live a life of excess and network, far removed from the prying eyes of ordinary people. As the rich get richer - the world's 10 richest people are $500 billion wealthier this year - their boats are getting longer.

We're definitely going to build a bunker before we release AGI,

The OpenAI co-founder and CEO's Big Island residence is now for sale, with a new listing that touts a "blend of luxury and natural beauty" - and many amenities of the ultra-rich. The estate looks out on Kailua Bay and the Pacific Ocean, with the listing boasting 10 bedrooms across a main residence and a guest house, a helicopter landing spot, staff quarters, a screening room, a private harbor, and "advanced security systems [that] guarantee peace and discretion."

Elon Musk: You remember him, yeah? Richest man in the world. Sells cars that catch on fire. Attempted to replace the federal workforce with 20-something meme addicts. Perhaps you've lost track of Elon lately, either because President Donald Trump fell out with him, or because you quit Twitter, or because you got sidetracked by the National Guard storming your house to check if you've been sheltering Muslim families in your crawlspace.