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David Cheriton
A professor and a modest guy, these two characteristics define David Cheriton, a billionaire who loves his modest life.
Professor at Stanford University, David Cheriton, has a thing for funding bright kids with ideas that could change the future.
One of these start-up companies, withdraw from his bank account $100,000 in 1998, when two kids decided to create Google.
With other numerous investments and over a billion from Google alone, this modest professor has a net worth of $2,8 billion and lives in the same house for 30 years, refusing even to change his car.