Steve Jobs
Claim to Fame: Apple
Net Worth: $6.1 billion
What He’s Given: Nada, unless you count giving tech bloggers plenty to write about as “charity”
The king of black turtlenecks and Internet-shattering press conferences earns a symbolic $1 a year from Apple, but that’s not all; he famously cut Apple’s charitable programs after taking the company’s helm for the second time in 1996, stating, “Wait until we’re profitable.”
Now that Apple’s value has topped $300 billion – easily surpassing that of longstanding rival Microsoft – it’ll be interesting to see what he decides to do with all that cash, if anything. As for his biggest rival…