Below are 5 typical technology billionaires born in the year of the Dragon.

1. Billionaire Jeff Bezos, born in 1964 (Giap Thin)​

Jeff Bezos was once the richest person on the planet and is currently the third richest person in the world after Bernard Arnault and Elon Musk. He was born in 1964 in New Mexico state (USA). After graduating from high school, he passed the entrance exam to the physics department at Princeton University. He studied natural subjects very well and graduated with honors.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when the Internet thrived, Jeff Bezos created a powerful Amazon “empire”, creating new opportunities for the e-commerce industry. In July 1994, with $1 million raised from family and friends, he officially established Amazon, which at that time was just an online bookstore. After that, Amazon expanded to other e-commerce products and services. By 1996, Amazon had more than 100 employees and achieved impressive revenue of more than 15.7 million USD.

Over 20 years of establishment and development, this billionaire has successfully turned Amazon into a “giant” that is not only successful in online shopping but also has many achievements in the field of cloud computing, entertainment, advertising. In early July 2021, billionaire Jeff Bezos resigned as CEO, but still holds the position of Chairman of Amazon company. This billionaire left Amazon to focus on a rocket company called Blue Origin.

Currently, according to Forbes, this billionaire’s assets are 114 billion USD.

2. Billionaire Jack Ma, born in 1964 (Giap Thin)

Jack Ma, born Ma Yun, was born into a poor family in Hangzhou, China. He failed university twice before passing the exam on the third try to become a student at Hangzhou Normal University.

The Chinese billionaire founded Alibaba.com in June 1999. In October of the same year, the company raised $5 million from Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs and $20 million from Japanese technology investor SoftBank.

Alibaba also successfully took advantage of the development of the Internet, the 2000s witnessed the rise of this e-commerce “giant” in China. By the mid-2010s, Ma began dreaming beyond China. In 2014, Alibaba began trading on the New York Stock Exchange, making Jack Ma the richest person in Asia with an estimated net worth of $25 billion by the end of that year.

However, Jack Ma stepped down as Chairman of Alibaba in 2019 and left the Board of Directors in 2020, but he still has great influence over this group. After his controversial speech in 2020, Jack Ma kept silent and focused on agricultural research in many countries around the world.

Currently, according to Forbes, this billionaire’s assets are 23.5 billion USD.

3. Billionaire Jack Dorsey, born in 1976 (Binh Thin)

Jack Dorsey was born on November 19, 1976 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He is best known as the co-founder of Twitter (now renamed X). This billionaire started programming early. At the age of 15, he wrote software to operate four-wheel traffic networks, which is still used by some taxi companies today.

In 2000, Jack Dorsey built a simple prototype app, mainly used to update friends’ lives via BlackBerry and email messaging. However, the app didn’t receive much attention until Jack took a job at podcasting company Odeo. This is where he met the co-founders of Twitter.

In 2006, Odeo ceased business. Jack Dorsey returned to the idea of texting and continued to develop and launch the Twitter application. The trio of Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams and Biz Stone bought the Twitter domain for about 7,000 USD. On March 21, 2006, Jack posted his first tweet on the platform. Twitter IPOed in November 2013, and within hours, Jack Dorsey joined the Big Tech group after holding worth of Twitter shares. price 557 million USD. In 2014, Forbes magazine pegged Dorsey’s net worth at $2.2 billion. Up to now, that number is 4.6 billion USD.

After two years of establishment, Jack Dorsey was appointed CEO of the company and five years later ceded the CEO position to Williams to take on the role of chairman of the Twitter board of directors. He currently focuses on managing payment company Block, formerly Square.

4. Billionaire Travis Kalanick, born in 1976 (Binh Thin)

Travis Kalanick was born on August 6, 1976, and grew up in Northridge, California, a suburb of Los Angeles (USA). He is known as the co-founder of the ride-sharing service Uber in 2009 and built the company to become the most valuable startup in the world.

However, in mid-2017, he had to resign as CEO after a series of scandals about the working environment, commercial secrets and disputes with the company’s own drivers. In 2019, he left the company’s board of directors.

Currently, this billionaire is running a startup called CloudKitchens, with a commitment to creating “smart kitchens for restaurants that only serve takeout”. This startup is funded by Microsoft and Saudi Arabia’s national investment fund.

According to Forbes, this billionaire’s assets are 4 billion USD.

5. Billionaire Joseph Tsai, born in 1964 (Giap Thin)

Joseph Tsai was born in Taiwan (China) in January 1964. His father was a corporate lawyer. At the age of 13, his parents sent him to America to study at Lawrenceville School, the leading private school in New Jersey. At school, he participated in lacrosse and rugby. Later, he continued to major in economics and East Asian studies at Yale University and obtained a law certificate.

After working as a lawyer in New York, he turned to private equity investing. In 1999, Joseph Tsai met Jack Ma in Hangzhou, and from then on became co-founder of Alibaba Group. Tsai was originally a close teammate of Jack Ma.

Besides, he is also the owner of a sports empire in the US, a blockchain technology investor and a notorious tycoon in the Manhattan commercial real estate market. These things make Tsai quite famous on Wall Street – something very different from ordinary Chinese businessmen.

Currently, according to Forbes, this billionaire’s assets are 7.6 billion USD.​