More than half of California’s billionaires call the Bay Area home: Who are they?

If the proposed California Billionaire Tax Act qualifies for the November ballot and voters approve it, California residents worth more than $1 billion as of Dec. 31, 2025, would face a new 5% annual tax on their net worth.

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Here are Bay Area residents Forbes’ real-time billionaire tracker listed at $1 billion or more on that date:

• Larry Page — $257.6 billion (Google), Palo Alto
• Sergey Brin — $237.7 billion (Google), Los Altos
• Mark Zuckerberg — $227.3 billion (Meta), Palo Alto
• Jensen Huang — $163.9 billion (Nvidia), Los Altos
• Eric Schmidt — $35.6 billion (Google), Atherton
• Robert Pera — $25.0 billion (Ubiquiti), San Jose
• John Doerr — $20.1 billion (Kleiner Perkins), Woodside
• Jan Koum — $17.1 billion (WhatsApp), Atherton
• George Roberts — $15.7 billion (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts), Atherton
• Vinod Khosla — $12.5 billion (Khosla Ventures), Portola Valley
• Laurene Powell Jobs — $13.9 billion (Apple, Disney), San Francisco
• Riley Bechtel and family — $11.4 billion (Bechtel Group), San Francisco
• Dustin Moskovitz — $11.2 billion (Facebook), San Francisco
• Douglas Leone — $10.7 billion (Sequoia Capital), Atherton
• Chris Larsen — $10.2 billion (Ripple), San Francisco
• Brian Armstrong — $9.8 billion (Coinbase), San Francisco
• Andrew Karam — $9.6 billion (AppLovin), Menlo Park
• Marc Benioff — $9.3 billion (Salesforce), San Francisco
• Brian Chesky — $9.5 billion (Airbnb), San Francisco
• Nathan Blecharczyk — $9.1 billion (Airbnb), San Francisco
• Tench Coxe — $7.9 billion (Sutter Hill Ventures), Palo Alto
• Michael Moritz — $7.7 billion (Sequoia Capital), San Francisco
• Scott Cook — $6.9 billion (Intuit), Woodside
• John A. Sobrato and family — $6.3 billion (Sobrato Organization), Atherton
• Vlad Tenev — $6.2 billion (Robinhood), Palo Alto
• Baiju Bhatt — $6.5 billion (Robinhood), Palo Alto
• Stephen Cohen — $6.1 billion (Palantir), Palo Alto
• Ken Xie and family — $5.6 billion (Fortinet), Los Altos Hills
• Jayshree Ullal — $5.6 billion (Arista Networks), Saratoga
• Romesh T. Wadhwani — $5.5 billion (Symphony AI), Palo Alto
• Gordon Getty and family — $5.4 billion (Getty Oil), San Francisco
• George Lucas — $5.3 billion (Lucasfilm), San Anselmo
• Eduardo Vivas — $5.2 billion (AppLovin), Palo Alto
• Reed Hastings — $5.1 billion (Netflix), Santa Cruz
• Eric Yuan and family — $5.0 billion (Zoom), Santa Clara
• Jack Dorsey — $4.9 billion (Twitter, Block), San Francisco
• David Baszucki — $4.9 billion (Roblox), San Francisco
• Seth Boro — $4.8 billion (Thoma Bravo), San Francisco
• Dagmar Dolby and family — $4.7 billion (Dolby Laboratories), San Francisco
• Michael Xie — $4.6 billion (Fortinet), Los Altos Hills
• David Filo — $4.5 billion (Yahoo), Palo Alto
• Rupert Johnson Jr. — $4.4 billion (Franklin Templeton), Burlingame
• Thomas Siebel — $4.0 billion (Siebel Systems), Woodside
• Sanjit Biswas — $3.9 billion (Samsara), San Francisco
• John Bicket — $3.8 billion (Samsara), San Francisco
• Peter Gassner — $3.7 billion (Veeva Systems), Pleasanton
• John Fisher — $3.7 billion (The Gap), San Francisco
• Dario Amodei — $3.7 billion (Anthropic), San Francisco
• Jack Clark — $3.7 billion (Anthropic), San Francisco
• Tom Brown — $3.7 billion (Anthropic), San Francisco
• Jared Kaplan — $3.7 billion (Anthropic), Pacifica
• Kavitark Ram Shriram — $3.6 billion (Sherpalo Ventures), Menlo Park
• Hemant Taneja — $3.6 billion (General Catalyst), Palo Alto
• Richard Peery — $3.5 billion (Peery Arrillaga), Palo Alto
• Brian Acton — $3.5 billion (WhatsApp), Palo Alto
• Parker Conrad — $3.4 billion (Rippling), San Francisco
• Frank Slootman — $3.3 billion (Snowflake), Pleasanton
• Jay Paul — $3.2 billion (Jay Paul Company), San Francisco
• Alexandr Wang — $3.2 billion (Scale AI), San Francisco
• Jeff Rothschild — $3.2 billion (Facebook), Palo Alto
• William Chisholm — $3.1 billion (STG Partners), Atherton
• Jerry Yang — $3.0 billion (Yahoo), Los Altos Hills
• Vasily Shikin — $2.9 billion (AppLovin), San Francisco
• Aneel Bhusri — $2.8 billion (Workday), San Francisco
• Tim Draper — $2.8 billion (Draper Associates), Atherton
• Daniel Pritzker — $2.8 billion (Hyatt), Marin County
• Jed McCaleb — $2.8 billion (Ripple), Berkeley
• Fred Ehrsam — $2.8 billion (Coinbase), San Francisco
• Tony Xu — $2.6 billion (DoorDash), San Francisco
• John Pritzker — $2.6 billion (Hyatt), San Francisco
• Tim Cook — $2.6 billion (Apple), Cupertino
• Anthony Wood — $2.5 billion (Roku), Palo Alto
• Barbara Banke and family — $2.5 billion (Jackson Family Wines), Geyserville
• Reid Hoffman — $2.4 billion (LinkedIn, venture capital), Palo Alto
• Jeff Tangney — $2.4 billion (Doximity), Palo Alto
• Sheryl Sandberg — $2.3 billion (Facebook), Menlo Park
• Joe Lacob — $2.3 billion (Golden State Warriors), Atherton
• Kevin Systrom — $2.3 billion (Instagram), San Francisco
• Kenneth Hao — $2.3 billion (Silver Lake), Hillsborough
• Egon Durban — $2.2 billion (Silver Lake), Atherton
• Max Levchin — $2.2 billion (Affirm, PayPal), San Francisco
• Irving Grousbeck and family — $2.2 billion (Boston Celtics), Portola Valley
• James Scapa — $2.2 billion (Altair Engineering), Atherton
• Surya Midha — $2.2 billion (Mercor), San Francisco
• Brendan Foody — $2.2 billion (Mercor), San Francisco
• Adarsh Hiremath — $2.2 billion (Mercor), San Francisco
• Jon Winkelried — $2.1 billion (TPG), San Francisco
• Drew Houston — $2.0 billion (Dropbox), San Francisco
• Tom Steyer — $2.0 billion (Farallon Capital), San Francisco
• Sam Altman — $2.0 billion (OpenAI), San Francisco
• Patrick Hanrahan — $1.9 billion (Tableau), Portola Valley
• Dylan Field — $1.9 billion (Figma), San Francisco
• Evan Williams — $1.9 billion (Blogger, Twitter, Medium), San Francisco
• Marc Andreessen — $1.9 billion (Andreessen Horowitz), Menlo Park
• William Fisher — $1.7 billion (The Gap), San Francisco
• Kevin Marchetti — $1.7 billion (Lineage), San Francisco
• Nicholas Pritzker — $1.6 billion (Hyatt), Nicasio
• Art Levinson — $1.6 billion (Genentech, Apple), Hillsborough
• Charles Liang — $1.6 billion (Super Micro Computer), San Jose
• Benoit Dageville — $1.6 billion (Snowflake), San Carlos
• Doris Fisher — $1.6 billion (The Gap), San Francisco
• Ben Silbermann — $1.6 billion (Pinterest), San Francisco
• JoeBen Bevirt — $1.5 billion (Joby Aviation), Santa Cruz
• Nikil Viswanathan — $1.5 billion (Alchemy), San Francisco
• Joe Lau — $1.5 billion (Alchemy), Stanford
• Mike Speiser — $1.5 billion (Sutter Hill Ventures, Snowflake), San Francisco
• George Marcus — $1.4 billion (Marcus & Millichap), Los Altos Hills
• Mark Pincus — $1.4 billion (Zynga), San Francisco
• Brett Adcock — $1.4 billion (Figure), Palo Alto
• Nikesh Arora — $1.4 billion (Palo Alto Networks), Atherton
• Thierry Cruanes — $1.4 billion (Snowflake), San Mateo
• Sanjay Gajendra — $1.3 billion (Astera Labs), Santa Clara
• Jitendra Mohan — $1.3 billion (Astera Labs), Santa Clara
• Marissa Mayer — $1.3 billion (Google, Yahoo), Palo Alto
• Aman Sanger — $1.3 billion (Cursor), San Francisco
• Michael Truell — $1.3 billion (Cursor), San Francisco
• Steve Huffman — $1.3 billion (Reddit), San Francisco
• Shyam Sankar — $1.2 billion (Palantir), Palo Alto
• Stanley Tang — $1.2 billion (DoorDash), San Francisco
• Theresia Gouw — $1.1 billion (Acrew Capital), Palo Alto
• Chi Fung Cheng — $1.1 billion (Credo Technology), San Jose
• Jeff Lawson — $1.1 billion (Twilio), San Francisco
• Tom Preston-Werner — $1.0 billion (GitHub), San Francisco
• Trae Stephens — $1.0 billion (Anduril, venture capital), San Francisco

Note: Several people were not listed on Forbes’ real-time billionaire tracker as of Dec. 31, 2025 but appeared on the list in mid-January 2026, including TPG private equity founding partner Jim Coulter ($5.1 billion); Anthropic co-founders Daniela Amodei ($3.7 billion) and Sam McCandlish ($3.7 billion); Michael Cagney, co-founder of Figure Technology Solutions ($2.8 billion); Pinterest co-founder Paul Sciarrat ($1.8 billion); Robert Fisher of The Gap ($1.8 billion); and Google CEO Sundar Pichai ($1.5 billion).

Forbes said absences may reflect stock fluctuations or archival glitches. Forbes excludes dispersed family fortunes but attributes wealth of immediate family members to the founder of a fortune.

Net worth and residence information is drawn from Forbes’ real-time billionaire tracker and publicly reported Bay Area homes as of Dec. 31, 2025. Net worth fluctuates daily based on market prices and private-company valuations. Listed residences may not reflect an individual’s legal tax residency or where wealth would ultimately be subject to taxation.