Overview
- Alphabet shares jumped 5.8% to about $317 on Monday after an 8.4% gain the prior week, adding roughly $8.7 billion to Page’s wealth, Forbes reported.
- Larry Ellison slipped to third with an estimated $248.8 billion as Oracle fell 1.5% Monday and has tumbled sharply from September highs.
- Sergey Brin moved into fourth place at about $236.4 billion, edging past Jeff Bezos, according to the Forbes real-time ranking.
- Investor enthusiasm has been stoked by Google’s Gemini 3 launch, a 34% jump in Q3 cloud revenue and Berkshire Hathaway’s nearly $5 billion Alphabet stake.
- The rankings reflect volatile, market-driven estimates that update with intraday moves and founders’ differing stock sales and donations.