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We all want to make money online, we are inspired and motivated by other people who have made millions from their Internet startup ideas but who exactly has made the most. Here are the top five richest Internet earners.

5. Nick Denton - Estimated worth $290 million.
Nick Denton started off believe it or not writing about blogs for UK based paper the financial times. Educated at the prestigious oxford university Nick Denton believed he could successfully make the transition from writing about blogs to blogging, and boy has he done it well. His company Gawker Media publishes over 15 different weblogs, including Gawker.com, Defamer, Fleshbot, Deadspin, Wonkette, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Consumerist and Kotaku.


4. Chad Hurley and Steve Chen - Estimated worth $580 million each.
We all know youTube. Millions of us every week go to the sight to relieve boredom, laugh, cry for be touched by others sharing their story’s in video form. Founded in mid February 2005 youTube took the net world by storm. By November 2006 youTube had been sold to the massive corporation which is Google. Chad Hurley and Steven Chen now have an estimated fortune of $580 million dollars each.


3. Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis - Estimated worth $688 million dollars each.
Founders of the infamous file sharing program Kazaa Niklas Zennstorm and Janus Friis have netted serious amounts of money from continuing to build software which changes the way we use the Internet. Their latest Internet venture Joost, which attempts to share TV across the media, looks likely to increase their internet fortunes further. Their biggest money maker was from the sale of company Skype to Ebay which went for an estimated $2.6 billion dollars.

2. Mark Zuckerberg - Estimated worth $1 Billion dollars.
Facebook facebook facebook, all we ever seem to hear about is facebook. It has become one of the largest social networking sites and its popularity continues to grow at an exponential rate. Mark Zuckerberg is not only the second richest person on my list but also the youngest at just 22. Facebook launched on February 4th 2004 and has not looked back since. I myself am addicted to the site having to log on almost daily to see what my friends are up to and read my messages, and others are worse using facebook on their mobile phones. It appears we are all slowly biting on the facebook bug and when the company eventually goes public ( I have no doubt that it will ) Mark Zuckerberg will be an incredibly wealthy man indeed.

1. Larry Page and Sergey Brin - Estimated wealth $7 billion each.
Well no Internet rich list would be complete without the inevitably twosome heading up the list with an unbelievable $7 billion each. If there is one site I use more regularly than any other it’s google. I can still remember back in the early days the google website being recommended to me by a friend. Almost instantly I was hooked and abandoned altavista, lycos and hotbot to use google. It provided fantastically relevant results which has been the key to it’s on going success. Once monetized by providing advertising on the now famous pay per click model there really was no stopping google. I only wish I had brought shares in the early days so I too could be sharing some of their successes. Oh well there is always google adsense