"Somebody should do that list." — Jeff Bezos, DealBook Summit. Each bar is a company's market value minus the piece its founder kept.
The math is Bezos's, not ours: wealth created for others = current market cap − the founder's remaining stake. Bars are scaled to the #1 entry.
Live mode refreshes every U.S.-listed market cap every ~3 minutes via Finnhub (free key) and re-ranks with ▲▼. Foreign listings and private valuations are periodic estimates.
Ownership stakes are curated, not streamed — no API publishes them. They're approximations from proxy statements and reports, kept in one editable DATA array in this file.
Known quirks, kept on purpose: the formula rewards selling your shares (Gates rises, Ellison sinks), lets cofounders double-count the same company, and doesn't check for a pulse — posthumous entries are flagged. None of this is real economics; it's a monument to a quote.
Wealth Created · Series 2026 · Not affiliated with Forbes, Bloomberg, or Bezos.