The 10 Richest Folks in Silicon Valley

7. Eric Schmidt 

He was born in 1955 in Washington. Eric Schmidt is the ex CEO of Google from 2001 till 2011. Now he is the Google Executive Chairman. Eric Schmidt is also Executive Chairman of Alphabet Inc., the new holding company that oversees Google. In 2016, he also became director of a committee for the US Pentagon to study the contribution of innovation of Silicon Valley in the US Army. He is ranked the Californians richest person with a net wealth of US$ 9.9 billion.