Report from paradise

The local paper offers this list of affluent - that is to say, rich beyond the dreams of avarice - people living on the mid-Peninsula (San Mateo down to Mountain View):

- Larry Page, Google, $19.8 bn
- Mark Zuckerberg, Facetube, $13.5 bn
- Steve Jobs, Apple/Pixar, $8.3 bn
- Eric Schmidt, Google, $7 bn (greatest career move ever)
- Charles Johnson, mutual funds, $5.1 bn
- Rupert Johnson, mutual funds, $4.9 bn
- Charles Schwab, stocks bonds etc., $4.7 bn
- Gordon Moore, Intel, $4 bn
- John Sobrato, real estate, $3.3 bn
- Andreas von Bechtolsheim, Google, $2.3 bn
- John Doerr, venture, $2.2 bn
- Dave Cheriton, Google, $1.8 bn
- Thomas Siebel, Siebel Systems, $1.7 bn
- Ken Fisher, investment management, $1.7 bn
- Kavitark Ram Shriram, Google, $1.6 bn
- Richard Peery, real estate, $1.5 bn
- John Arrilaga, real estate, $1.4 bn
- Vinod Khosla, Sun Microsystems, $1.4 bn
- David Filo, Yahoo, $1.4 bn
- Scott Cook, Intuit, $1.4 bn
- Romesh Wadhwani, "software", $1.4 bn
- Meg Whitman, E-Bay, $1.3 bn
- Jerry Yang, Yahoo, $1.3 bn
- Carl Berg, real estate, $1.2 bn
- John Morgridge, Cisco, $1.2 bn

And, oh yes, Lawrence Ellison, Oracle, $39.5 bn.


Right next to this article there are two others:

• "Menlo official spent $745 to get to Fresno"
• "Teacher layoff notices ready"

Sources:  Forbes, PA Daily Post