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The document summarizes the top 7 Indian Americans on the 2020 Forbes list of richest people in America. Jay Chaudhry ranks the highest at #85 with a net worth of $6.9 billion as the founder and CEO of cybersecurity company Zscaler. Romesh Wadhwani ranks #238 with $3.4 billion as the founder of software company Symphony Technology Group. Niraj Shah ranks #299 with $2.8 billion as the co-founder and CEO of online retailer Wayfair.

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1-Jay Chaudhry: Jeff Bezos

The document summarizes the top 7 Indian Americans on the 2020 Forbes list of richest people in America. Jay Chaudhry ranks the highest at #85 with a net worth of $6.9 billion as the founder and CEO of cybersecurity company Zscaler. Romesh Wadhwani ranks #238 with $3.4 billion as the founder of software company Symphony Technology Group. Niraj Shah ranks #299 with $2.8 billion as the co-founder and CEO of online retailer Wayfair.

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The 2020 Forbes list out now, having the names of 400 'Richest People in

America'. CEO, Founder and the President of Amazon, Jeff Bezos has


topped the list for the third year in a row with a net worth of USD 179
billion. Bill Gates is on number two with a net worth of USD 111 billion. 
The number three spot is grabbed by the Founder and CEO of
Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg with a net worth of USD 85 billion. The CEO
of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffet ranked fourth with a net worth of
USD 73.5 billion. The Co-founder, Chairman and the Chief Technology
Officer of the Oracle Corporation, Larry Ellison is on number 5 with a net
worth of USD 72 billion. 
The Forbes stated, 'Pandemic be damned: America’s 400 richest are
worth a record USD 3.2 trillion, up to USD 240 billion from a year ago,
aided by a stock market that has defied the virus. Even in these trying
times, mega-fortunes are still being minted.'

How Mark Zuckerberg joins $100 billion club of Bill Gates and Jeff
Bezos?
Let us have a look at the 7 Indian-Americans listed in the Forbes' 2020
list of richest Americans. 

1- Jay Chaudhry 
Jay Chaudhry is on number 85 in the list with a net worth of USD 6.9
billion. Jay is an Indian-American billionaire businessman who is the CEO
and the Founder of Zscaler-- a cybersecurity company. He earlier founder
AirDefense which is now acquired by Motorola, CipherTrust which is now
acquired by Secure Computing, CoreHarbor which is now acquired by
AT&T and Secure IT which is now acquired by Verisign. 

Jay was born in 1959 in West Bengal, India. He is an alumnus of Banaras


Hindu University (BHU) and the University of Cincinnati. He holds
American citizenship. He is married to Jyoti Chaudhry and the couple has
3 children. 

In 1996, Jay along with his wife quitted his job and invested in Jay's first
startup-- SecureIT. In March 2008, Zscaler was founded but it went public
after 10 years in March 2018. 

2- Romesh T. Wadhwani
Romesh T. Wadhwani is on number 238 in the list with a net worth of
USD 3.4 billion. Romesh is an Indian-American billionaire businessman
who is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of the Symphony Technology
Group (STG)-- a software, internet and technology services company. 

Romesh T. Wadhwani was born in 1947 in British India in Karachi. He is


an alumnus of IIT Bombay and Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a
United States citizenship. He is married to Kathleen Wadhwani and the
couple has a daughter. 
In 2017, Wadhwani combined 9 of his AI-focussed companies into a group
called SymphonyAI. He was also the Founder, Chairman and CEO of the
Aspect Development which was acquired by i2 Technologies in 1992 for
USD 9.3 billion in stock. In 2018, Romesh along with his brother Sunil
Wadhwani founded Wadhwani Institute of Artificial Intelligence at the
University of Mumbai.  

3- Niraj Shah
Niraj Shah ranks 299 in the list with a net worth of USD 2.8 billion. He is
an Indian-American billionaire businessman who is the Co-founder, Co-
chairman and CEO of the Wayfair-- an online retailer company. 

Niraj was born in 1973 in India and grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.


He is an alumnus of Cornell University. He holds American citizenship. He
is married to Jill Shah and the couple has 2 children. 

In 2002, Shah co-founded Wayfair with his classmate, Steve Conine (an
alumnus of Cornell University). He was listed in Fortune list of '40 under
40' in 2013. 

4- Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla grabbed 353rd spot in the list with a net worth of USD 2.4
billion. He is an Indian-American billionaire businessman who is the co-
founder of Sun Microsystems and the Founder of Khosla Ventures. 

Vinod Khosla was born in 1955 in India. He is an alumnus of IIT Delhi,


Carnegie Mellon University and
Stanford University. He holds American citizenship. He is married to
Neeru Khosla and the couple has 4 children. 
In 1982, Khosla co-founded Sun Microsystems with his classmates from
the Stanford-- Scott McNealy, Bechtolsheim and Bill Joy, an alumnus of
University of California, Berkeley. He served as the CEO and Chairman of
the company from 1982 to 1984 and left the company to become a
venture capitalist. In 2004, Khosla ventures was founded by Vinod
Khosla. 

5- Kavitark Ram Shriram


Kavitark Ram Shriram ranks 259 in the list with a net worth of USD 2.3
billion. He is an Indian-American billionaire businessman who is the
founding board member and one of the first investors in Google. He was
previously associated with Amazon. 

Shriram was born in 1956 in Madras, India. He holds an American


Citizenship. He is an alumnus of Loyola College, Chennai and University of
Madras. He is married to Vijay Shriram and the couple has two children.  
Shriram is an investor in InMobi and mKhoj. He is also a member of the
board of directors of Google, Paperless Post, Yubico and Zazzle. In 2000,
he founded Sherpalo-- a venture capital firm. 

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