Fortune Magazine has produced a list of the richest Americans under 40, and the results would seem to indicate that the Internet may be the best road to riches.
Virtually every other man on the list -- and they're all men -- has some connection to the technology industry. The notable exceptions are producer and No Limit chief Percy "Master P" Miller (ranked 28th with a net worth of US$361 million) and basketball legend Michael Jordan (ranked 29th with a net worth of US$357 million).
The top 10 reads like the guest list to a Silicon Valley cocktail party. Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos comes in second at US$5.74 billion, and Dell's chief rival Gateway Inc. CEO Ted Waitt is third, at US$5.44 billion.
Yahoo! isn't the only firm to have two guys in the top ten -- eBay vice president Jeff Skoll, came in at number 10 with a net worth of US$1.35 billion.
EBay's CEO Meg Whitman would have ranked number 14 on the list, but missed the age cut-off by two years, the magazine said.
