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.