With Google’s Market Cap Topping $3 Trillion, Larry And Sergey Are Now Worth $426 Billion Combined (Which Is Still Less Than One Elon)
ByBrian Warneron September 15, 2025inArticles›Billionaire News
In April 2021, Google’s market cap topped $1.5 trillion for the first time. When that happened, the company’s two co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both joined the centibillionaire club for the first time (net worth greater than $100 billion). That was roughly 1,600 days ago.
A lot has happened in those 1,600 days. The internet giant endured intensifying political scrutiny, two major antitrust trials, and historic guilty verdicts.
In August 2024, Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Google had illegally maintained a monopoly in online search. After months of wrangling over potential punishments, Mehta delivered remedies on September 2, 2025. His order required Google to scale back exclusive distribution deals, share some search data with rivals, and submit to six years of oversight. Crucially, he stopped short of breaking up the company or forcing it to spin off Chrome, a decision widely seen as a slap on the wrist.
Meanwhile, a second case was unfolding. In April 2025, Judge Leonie Brinkema found Google guilty of monopolizing key parts of the online advertising technology market, ruling that the company illegally tied together its dominant publisher ad server and ad exchange. That verdict set the stage for yet another remedies phase, one that could force Google to divest portions of its ad-tech empire. Unlike the search case, those remedies have not yet been handed down, leaving the future of Google’s advertising business in limbo.
Oh, while all that was going on, OpenAI’s ChatGPT emerged as a potential Google-killer application. Chat GPT-3.5, the first real consumer-facing product, was released in November 2022 and soon opened the floodgates to the AI hype cycle. Today, OpenAI’s products have 800 million weekly active users.
And yet, despite this drumbeat of legal threats and unknown futures, the stock market has responded to Google’s latest developments with breathtaking optimism.
Today, just two weeks after the September 2 remedies order in the search case, Alphabet’s valuation surged past $3 trillion for the first time, making it only the fourth company in history to reach that milestone (after Apple, Microsoft, and Nvidia).
The rally catapulted Larry and Sergey into a new club for the first time: The DOUBLE CENTIBILIONAIRE club.
As of Monday’s closing, Page’s net worth is roughly $220 billion, while Brin’s topped $206 billion . Together, the two now control a staggering $426 billion in personal wealth. And while that’s staggering, Larry & Sergey’s combined net worth is still a bit shy of a single Elon.
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Two Googlers vs. One Elon
That combined total is eye-popping on its own, but it comes with an irresistible comparison: as of Monday’s close, Larry Page plus Sergey Brin almost equal one Elon Musk.
On Monday, Musk announced he had used $1 billion in personal funds to buy additional shares of Tesla, nudging his ownership stake from 19.71% to 19.78%. The announcement also sparked a rally in Tesla stock, which jumped 3.62% on the day. Fun fact: Elon’s $1 billion purchase increased Tesla’s market cap by $40 billion, from $1.28 trillion to $1.32 trillion. In other words, he spent $1 billion and made $8 billion in a matter of hours. Not a bad gig if you can get it.
With Tesla trading at $410 per share, plus his other assets, Musk’s net worth now sits at $430 billion .
So at this moment — and it could swing wildly tomorrow — the two men who started Google out of a Stanford dorm room collectively sit just a few billion shy of one South African-born entrepreneur who built Tesla, SpaceX, and X.
Wealth at the Top
With these latest gains, here are the top 6 richest people in the world :
- Elon Musk – $430 billion
- Larry Ellison – $361 billion
- Mark Zuckerberg – $266 billion
- Jeff Bezos – $252 billion
- Larry Page – $220 billion
- Sergey Brin – $206 billion
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Larry Ellison Just Leapfrogged Jeff Bezos To Become The World’s Third Richest Person. Next Stop, World’s First Trillionaire?
ByBrian Warneron June 13, 2025inArticles›Billionaire News
This week, Larry Ellison’s net worth increased by $34 billion in roughly 48 hours, thanks to a massive rally in Oracle’s stock price following a blowout earnings report and rising investor confidence in the company’s AI capabilities.
Shares of Oracle soared 13% on Thursday and another 7% on Friday, closing at a record high of approximately $215. The surge added over $100 billion to Oracle’s market capitalization and pushed Ellison’s personal fortune to $235 billion, up from around $201 billion earlier in the week.
That gain vaulted Ellison into the third spot among the world’s richest people, leapfrogging Jeff Bezos and now trailing only Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.
Current Top 5 Richest People in the World :
- Elon Musk – $368 billion
- Mark Zuckerberg – $241 billion
- Larry Ellison – $235 billion
- Jeff Bezos – $234 billion
- Bill Gates – $180 billion
For Ellison, this marks not only a financial milestone but also a historic turning point in one of the tech world’s most iconic rivalries.
Larry and Bill (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
Oracle went public on March 12, 1986 — just one day before Microsoft’s IPO . From that moment forward, Ellison and Bill Gates were locked in a decades-long battle for software dominance. While Oracle specialized in enterprise databases and cloud infrastructure, Microsoft exploded into consumer and enterprise software, capturing a far larger share of the market, and for most of their careers, Gates dramatically outpaced Ellison in terms of wealth.
As you probably know, Bill Gates was the richest person on the planet, with only a few brief interruptions, from 1997 until 2017. During those years, Larry was largely out of the spotlight in terms of wealth rankings.
Even a decade ago, Ellison’s net worth hovered around $30–40 billion, while Gates stood at roughly $80 billion.
Much of the difference comes down to how the two men managed their equity. Gates, who owned 45% of Microsoft at IPO, gradually sold off nearly all of it over the decades. His current stake in Microsoft is down to around 1.4% , and while that was a wise move in terms of diversification and philanthropy, it limited his exposure to the company’s staggering growth. With Microsoft now worth $3.5 trillion, a hypothetical 30% stake would be worth $1.05 trillion — enough to make Gates the world’s first trillionaire .
Ellison, by contrast, never let go of the wheel. Four decades after the IPO, he still owns roughly 41% of Oracle. As Oracle’s market cap climbed to $600 billion for the first time this week, Ellison’s patience and concentration have paid off in dramatic fashion.
What Would It Take to Top Marky Mark & The Zucky Bunch?
To surpass Mark Zuckerberg and become the world’s second-richest person (assuming Zuckerberg’s net worth holds steady at $241 billion), Larry Ellison would need Oracle’s stock to climb from $215 to around $220 per share, or its market cap to increase by roughly $15 billion. A 2.5% increase in Oracle’s stock would do the trick. Very possible — maybe even by Monday.
Could Larry Ellison Become a Trillionaire?
Believe it or not, that’s not entirely out of the question. At a 41% ownership stake, Ellison’s net worth rises roughly $41 billion for every $100 billion added to Oracle’s market cap. To reach $1 trillion, Ellison would need his Oracle shares alone to be worth that amount — which would require the company’s market cap to hit about $2.44 trillion.
That’s more than four times its current size — but not unthinkable. Oracle’s market cap was just $60 billion in 2005 and $180 billion in 2015. On Friday, Oracle’s market cap ended at $600 billion for the first time. As further evidence, Microsoft, Apple, and Nvidia have already crossed the $3 trillion threshold, and Oracle is aggressively positioning itself as a key player in AI infrastructure, a sector that could see exponential growth in the coming years.
For now, Ellison is the third richest person in the world, and perhaps the greatest living example of what patient, long-term ownership can achieve.
Disclosure: The author owns shares of Oracle Corporation in a retirement account. This article is for informational/entertainment purposes only and should not be considered financial or investment advice.
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