Tech's most frugal millionaire TOP10-rich not only in the spendthrift

Many of the tech barons live a luxurious life, they drive yachts and live in mansions. But there are some thrifty billionaires. Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, for example, only drives a 30,000-dollar Volkswagen GTI, while Google co-founder Saigi Brind (Sergey Brin) likes to do lots of shopping in a good city (Costco) ...

These 10 tech executives sit on hundreds of millions of, billions of, or even billions of dollars of assets, but live frugally and charitable lives.

David Chereton (David Cheriton), Arista NX co-founder, net worth of 3 billion dollars.

Chereton, a Stanford University professor and co-founder of Arista NX, a large data center network equipment maker, was an early investor in Google. Chereton has invested 100,000 of billions of dollars in the early days of Google, though he has received huge returns, but he is still averse to some extravagant practices.

"I am outraged that some people's mansions have 13 toilets," Chereton said in an interview in 2006. "Today, Chereton is still driving 1986 years of Volkswagen, living 30 years ago in the house, trimming his hair, and even drink tea repeatedly."

Charlie Oergen (Charlie Ergen), Dish receptacle chairman, net assets of 16.3 billion dollars.

Oergen was a famous "thrifty" business leader who, until 10, had insisted on signing dish receptacle's expenses personally.

His daily lunch is a sandwich and a bottle of Gatorade (Gatorade) functional drink, each business trip with colleagues to share a hotel room. "My mother was in the depression and I don't have a mahogany desk right now," he said. ”

Pierre Omidia (Pierre Omidyar), founder and chairman of ebay, net assets of 8.1 billion dollars.

After the 1998 ebay listing, Omidyar became a billionaire, but he never took the money for pleasure.

"We seem to skip the ' general rich ' and come straight to ' absurd riches '," he said. When you realize that you have the ability to buy everything, you will find that there is nothing that interests or satisfies you. ”

David Kap (David Karp), founder and CEO of TUMBLR website, has a net worth of at least 200 million dollars.

The TUMBLR, which was created by carp, valued about 1.1 billion dollars, but he lived a simple life.

"I don't have any books and I don't have too much clothing," he said in an interview with Forbes. I've always wondered why so many people stuffed their homes full. ”

Azim Plemky (Azim Premji), founder and chairman of Wipro, IT, consultancy and outsourcing company, net assets of USD 15.4 billion.

As chairman of Wipro, Plemky is India's richest tech, but he "hates" spending.

Each time he got off the plane, Plemky was coming back to the office from the airport with a tricycle automatic rickshaw. He even monitored the use of toilet paper in Wipro's office bathroom, often reminding employees to turn off the lights before leaving the office.

Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, has a net worth of 32.4 billion dollars.

Zuckerberg's 30-year-old personal net worth of about 31.5 billion dollars, became the world's third to achieve net assets (units: 1 billion U.S. dollars) beyond their age of the rich. The other two were Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the Mexican tycoon Carlos (Carlos Slim).

Zuckerberg is surprisingly indifferent to wealth. He had previously been driving a black Acura TSX car and had recently upgraded to VW GTI, but only about 30,000 dollars. Although it bought 7 million of dollars in 2011, the Los Angeles Times said the standard was far less than its wealth.

Jane Qom (Koum), founder of WhatsApp, net assets of 6.8 billion dollars.

Qom's childhood was very poor, and although now a billionaire, he still lives a frugal life.

Facebook, which announced a 19 billion dollar takeover of WHATSAPP in February this year, has missed a flight to Barcelona to complete the deal as soon as possible. The ticket was bought by Qom using mileage rewards (frequent flier miles).

Tim Cook, Apple's CEO, has a net worth of about 400 million dollars.

Mr Cook was one of the highest-paid executives in Silicon Valley, but never reflected in everyday life.

Mr. Cook has always been famous for his low-key lives in a 2095-square-foot apartment in Palo (Palo Alto). The house was bought by Cook in 2010 at a price of 1.9 million dollars, much lower than the price of a neighbour's purchase.

"I like to remind myself where I come from and that money is not my motivating factor," Cook said. ”

Hsieh (Tony Hsieh), founder and CEO of Zappos website, net assets of 1 billion dollars.

Hsieh in 1999 to sell his company LinkExchange to Microsoft for 265 million dollars, but he did not live a luxurious life, but to make good use of the money.

In the past few years, Hsieh personal investment of 350 million of dollars, the commercial color of the Las Vegas into a technology center.

Zappos investor Eric Moore (Erik Moore) said: "His approach is different from ordinary people, many of us are wondering why he did not make good use of his wealth to enjoy it." ”

Saidi Brind (Sergey Brin), Google co-founder, net assets of 30.9 billion dollars.

It may be perverse to say that a person with several planes is frugal. But Brin says he doesn't like spending money.

"I learned to be frugal from my parents, and poor also felt happy," Brin said in an interview in 2007. Now, I do not eat leftovers, buy things also look at the price. I also try to force myself not to do so and not to be so frugal. But I don't have a lot of things, I'm still happy. ”

Brin often went to the Costco to do lots of shopping and donated 219 million dollars in 2013.