The Digital Footprints of the World’s 10 Richest People

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news. For first time visitors a more in-depth explanation of what the PeekScore is, and how to increase your own, can be found by clicking through here.

If you’ve read this entry’s title, then you already know full-well what we’ve got in store for you. Below are the ten richest people in the world (as of March ’12), assessed not by the vastness of their fortunes, the expanse of their holdings, nor even the breadth of their philanthropic endeavors. We are comparing these folks solely based upon the sizes of their digital footprints, as quantified by our handy-dandy PeekScore scale (the “digital footprint” concept is explained a bit more in depth at the blog entry found here).

Unsurprisingly, the gentleman topping our list is not only comfortably resting atop this chart, he is endowed with the ultimate PeekScore of 10. Given his nearly incalculable global fame, and especially given his specific association with the very technology many use to access the Web in the first place, his dominance here in cyberspace is a natural.

Any thoughts or comments on this list here? Any surprises for you? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Character PeekScore
1

Bill Gates Founder, Microsoft 10.00 / 10.00
2

Warren Buffett CEO, Berkshire Hathaway 9.03 / 10.00
3

Larry Ellison CEO, Oracle 8.70 / 10.00
4

Eike Batista CEO, EBX Group 8.21 / 10.00
5

Carlos Slim Helú Chairman, Telmex 8.17 / 10.00
6

Bernard Arnault Chairman, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy 8.11 / 10.00
7

Amancio Ortega Chariman, Spanish Inditex 8.03 / 10.00
8

Li Ka-shing Chairman, Hutchison Whampoa Limited and Cheung Kong Holdings 7.87 / 10.00
9

Stefan Persson Chairman, H&M 7.38 / 10.00
10

Karl Albrecht Co-founder, Aldi Stores Ltd. 7.30 / 10.00

The PeekScores of the World’s Richest People

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news.

If you’ve read this entry’s title, then you already know full-well what we’ve got in store for you. Below are the ten richest people in the world (as of March ’11), assessed not by the vastness of their fortunes, the expanse of their holdings, nor even the breadth of their philanthropic endeavors. We are comparing these folks solely based upon the sizes of their digital footprints, as quantified by our handy-dandy PeekScore scale.

Unsurprisingly, the gentleman topping our list is not only comfortably resting atop this chart, he is endowed with the ultimate PeekScore of 10. Given his nearly incalculable global fame, and especially given his specific tech association, his dominance here in cyberspace is a natural.

Any thoughts or comments on this list here? Any surprises for you? Let us know in the comments.

Rank Picture Name Bio PeekScore
1

Bill Gates Founder, Microsoft 10.00 / 10.00
2

Warren Buffett CEO, Berkshire Hathaway 9.19 / 10.00
3

Larry Ellison CEO, Oracle 8.97 / 10.00
4

Mukesh Ambani Chairman, Reliance Industries 8.50 / 10.00
5

Eike Batista CEO, EBX Group 8.36 / 10.00
6

Carlos Slim Helú Chairman, Telmex 8.30 / 10.00
7

Bernard Arnault Chairman, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy 8.23 / 10.00
8

Lakshmi Mittal Chairman, ArcelorMittal ADS 8.20 / 10.00
9

Amancio Ortega Chariman, Spanish Inditex 8.13 / 10.00
10

Christy Walton Widow of John T. Walton, son of Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton 7.51 / 10.00

The Digital Footprints of 15 Incredibly Successful College Dropouts

What is PeekScore?: PeekScore is a rank from 1 to 10, assigned to every person. The higher someone’s score, the “more important” they are on the web. In calculating your PeekScore and updating it often, PeekYou takes into account your known presence and activity on the Internet, including but not limited to; your blogging, participation in social networks, the number of your friends, followers, or readers, the amount of web content you create, and your prominence in the news.

There’s a not a college degree to be found amongst them, yet we doubt they ultimately broke their mothers’ hearts too badly. Now, you might well expect reasonably healthy PeekScores from a bunch of dropouts, as you could imagine they’ve little to do with their time apart from tweet, blog, and update their Facebook pages. But this is not a bunch who are chilling in their parents’ basements, while they “figure some stuff out.” This band of 15 go-getters are nearly all millionaires, and the comfortable majority are actually billionaires.

We’re not here to quantify and compare their successes in terms of dollars and cents, though, nor even assess their relative worth in terms of accomplishments or importance. We’re just here to see how they measure up in the digital footprint department, and it seems that these dropouts are making their marks here in the ether quite dramatically; with a whopping seven of them having a PeekScore of 10, and another four having a PeekScore in the 9s. But, the fact is, go-getters or not (and whether or not they are the founders and/or CEOs of the websites in question) a lot of these guys are on Twitter and Facebook, and do actually use them. We doubt that their lacking degrees has much to do with this fact, but it is a nifty list of some deeply “web impactful” individuals.

Are there any famous college dropouts you would have included? Do you have any thoughts on this list you’d like to share? Say hello in the comments.

Rank Picture Name PeekScore as of Last Update Current PeekScore
1

Mark Zuckerberg Co-founder/CEO – Facebook 10.00 / 10
2

Bill Gates Chairman/Co-founder – Microsoft 10.00 / 10
3

Steve Jobs Co-founder/CEO – Apple, Inc. 10.00 / 10
4

Richard Branson Chairman – Virgin Group 10.00 / 10
5

Evan Williams Co-founder and former CEO – Twitter 10.00 / 10
6

Biz Stone Co-founder – Twitter 10.00 / 10
7

Matt Mullenweg Founding developer – WordPress 10.00 / 10
8

Michael Dell CEO and Founder – Dell, Inc. 9.63 / 10
9



Ted Turner Founder – TBS, CNN, Turner Entertainment, etc. 9.59 / 10
10

James Cameron Film Director/Producer 9.41 / 10
11



Larry Ellison Co-founder and CEO – Oracle Corporation 9.19 / 10
12

Ralph Lauren Fashion Designer and Founder – Ralph Lauren 7.83 / 10
13

Sean Parker Entrepreneur, Former President – Facebook 7.59 / 10
14

Paul Allen Co-founder – Microsoft 7.20 / 10
15

David Geffen Co-founder – Dreamworks, Creator – Asylum Records, Creator – Geffen Records 6.83 / 10