Business leaders no longer need to spend decades building the next big thing to join Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos at the top of the Billionaire Club. They just need to build an AI company.
Now, there are about 498 AI unicorns or private AI companies worth $1 billion or more, with a total value of $2.7 trillion. CB Insight.
Since 2023, a complete 100 have been established. More than 1,300 AI startups are valued at over $100 million.
take Mira Muratifor example, former Chief Technology Officer of Openai. Her startup Thinking Machines Lab is just closure A seed round worth $12 billion.
We have never seen such a technological boom since the late 1990s and early 2000s, which has driven many of today’s tech giants ebay arrive Googleenter the mainstream. Although the “unicorn” tag did not exist at the time and the multi-billion dollar private valuations could not be compared directly, AI did not track it, but AI created billionaires in one person Record speed– It can even be in an era Millionaire.
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The company’s valuation boom will also bring a lot of payments to its founders, investors and C-Suite.
March, Bloomberg The report said that among the four largest private AI companies including OpenAI, anthropomorphism, secure superintelligence and Anysphere, it created at least $1.5 billion in billionaires with a net worth of $38 billion. Since then, it has been crowned with more than a dozen unicorns.
AI startups are gaining substantial investments, bringing high valuations and wealth to founders and early investors. According to crunchbase, Global venture capital In 2024 More than the total in 2023, AI has shown its biggest leap year by year.
for Human Including CEO Dario Amodei, the report shows that Claude chatbot maker is negotiating to raise $5 billion at a valuation of $170 billion. Amodei’s net worth Now it’s over a billion dollar result.
Join too Billionaire Club yes Liang Wenfeng. Founder and CEO of Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek is likely to be worth it $1 billion Based on estimates from low-cost AI companies.
As investment in AI continues to thrive, so are the net worth of billionaires working in it. Nvidia’s CFO Colette Kress and EVP Jay Puri have become billionaires, joining CEO Jansen Huang Its market value is over $4 trillion. Similarly, Palantir’s The first $100 million quarter significantly increased the company’s co-founder and C-Suite’s wealth. Peter Thiel and Alex Karp Everyone saw their net worth increase by $17 billion together.