Indian-Americans Vinod Khosla, Romesh Wadhwani, and Rakesh Gangwal made it to the Forbes 2022 listof 400 wealthiest Americans,with Zscaler CEO Jay Chaudhry leading the pack with a net worth of $8.3 billion.
Overall, Tesla CEOElon Muskearned the top spot for the first time, unseating former Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who had held the top spot for four consecutive years.
As a group, the 400 wealthiest Americans are worth $4 trillion, $500 billion less than last year, as per Forbes. Facebook parent Meta’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg fell off the top 10 in this list for the first time since 2015.
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Coming back to the Indian-Americans featuring in this list, Jay Chaudhry, 64, is ranked 79 on the list after founding the cybersecurity firm Zscaler in 2008.. He and his family members own 42% of the Nasdaq-listed firm, which went public in March 2018.
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Before Zscaler, Chaudhry had founded four other tech companies that were all acquired—SecureIT, CoreHarbor, CipherTrust, and AirDefense. In 1996, Chaudhry and his wife quit their jobs and used their life savings to launch SecureIT, their first startup. He had moved to the US in 1980 to attend graduate school. He now lives in Reno, Nevada, as per the IANS report.
Next is 67-year oldVinod Khosla , who was ranked number 181 in theForbeslist,with a net worth of $5.4 billion.
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His firm, Khosla Ventures, invests in experimental technologies such as biomedicine androbotics. Khosla had co-founded the computer hardware firm Sun Microsystems in 1982 with Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy, and Scott McNealy.
Romesh T. Wadhwani, 75, founder and chairman of Symphony Technology Group, also features in the list.
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He was ranked 196 with a net worth of $5.1 billion. He stepped down as CEO of SymphonyAI at the start of 2022 in a move to ready the firm for a potential public offering. He is also the chairman of ConcertAI, an AI company focused on healthcare and life sciences that was valued at $1.9 billion by venture capital investors in March 2022.
With a net worth of $4.1 billion, airline veteran Rakesh Gangwal, aged 69, also features on the list.. He made his fortune from InterGlobe Aviation, the parent company of budget airline IndiGo, India's largest by market share.
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He started his airline career with United Airlines in 1984 and went on to run US Airways Group as its chief executive and chairman. Gangwal had cofounded IndiGo with Rahul Bhatia in 2006 with one aircraft. The Miami resident, who is ranked 261 on the list, owns close to 37% of the company, as per the report.
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