I asked ChatGPT for a list of 20 of the most famous and wealthy tech capitalists, past and present, who built huge fortunes from the network and often dominated or wiped out competitors:

1. Bill Gates — Microsoft, crushed Netscape and many others
2. Steve Jobs — Apple, reshaped multiple industries (PCs, music, phones)
3. Jeff Bezos — Amazon, drove Borders, Sears, and many retailers out
4. Elon Musk — Tesla, X (Twitter), SpaceX, leveraged hype and scale
5. Mark Zuckerberg — Meta (Facebook), eliminated MySpace and Friendster
6. Larry Page — Google, wiped out AltaVista, Lycos, Yahoo search
7. Sergey Brin — Google, co-founder, same dominance
8. Eric Schmidt — Google CEO, guided ruthless expansion
9. Marc Andreessen — Netscape (first big IPO of web era), then VC power
10. Peter Thiel — PayPal, Palantir, early Facebook investor
11. Reed Hastings — Netflix, ended Blockbuster
12. Satya Nadella — Microsoft CEO, turned around the giant with cloud
13. Tim Cook — Apple CEO, expanded the wealth Jobs built
14. Michael Dell — Dell Computer, squeezed margins on rivals with direct sales
15. Larry Ellison — Oracle, famous for brutal competition in databases
16. Jack Ma — Alibaba, Chinese e-commerce dominance
17. Pony Ma — Tencent, crushed rivals in Chinese social and gaming
18. Jensen Huang — Nvidia, now central to AI hardware dominance
19. Sam Altman — OpenAI, at the center of current AI gold rush
20. Travis Kalanick — Uber, rewrote taxi industry worldwide before being ousted