Sreekanth Ravi & Sudhakar Ravi

Two Hyderabadi brothers builds world class security solutions company in US


Hyderabad: The two left Hyderabad when barely eligible to enter school, grew up in the Midwest, went to school there and toiled for nine long years before finding the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. In late 1999 the Ravis took their company, SonicWall, public, and before the New Year was ushered in were worth half a billion dollars each, based on the company?s stock price of about $47.

SonicWall started out by making a decidedly simple product: ethernet cards for Macintosh computers, which were still hot in the early ?90s. Sudhakar experimented with a variety of other things, too, mostly by himself or with a small team of engineers.

He made software for virtually every type of Macintosh interface, including SCSI, LocalTalk, Nubus, PDS, PCI, CommSlot and PCI-CommSlot. Although playing inventor was a lot of fun for Sudhakar, it resulted in only moderate success.

The two brothers found their ?eureka moment,? when their office switched to a T1 Internet connection. When they did so, they also started scanning the market for security firewall products because their computers were now always connected to the Net and needed adequate protection. They found none that fit their budget. The cheapest cost $20,000 ? way beyond the means of a small office such as theirs.

23 Michael Robertson 37 CEO/Founder Linspire $220 million

WTF??

So I still have 10 years to save!

31 Ashley Olsen 18 Actress/Co-President DualStar Entertainment $137 million
31 Mary-Kate Olsen 18 Actress/Co-President DualStar Entertainment $137 million


18 and already over 140 mil... crazy

what about the kid in the army who won the powerball for close to 300mil a few months back?

If it were one person, it would not be worth :2 cents:.

thanks for posting this list. it reminded me to renew my subscription.

Props to everyone who made that list. I would love to be on it myself some day. :thumbsup

I'll take the one you don't want.

listen to someone that understands :thumbsup

I do my best to stay below $100mil

:1orglaugh Me as well :Graucho

And they had to collect twice as much.

this is just the Americans :)

btw. did you know that there are more billionares in Russia than in the USA?

i find that impossible Gunni

Interesting... got any stats on this?

Holy moly dude, that is extraordinary. Wowzers.

My poor attempt at displaying disinterest. :glugglug

I just made it up :glugglug
America has the most billionares,
but that list is not complete, for example Roman Abramovich should be in 4th place or something, he's like 36 and has about 4 bn pounds (about 7 bn dollars) :)

his yacht alone (octapus) is enough for me :)

kickass thread!

Crazy... I want one...

The olsen's were acting since they were babies in "full house"

I wanted him to buy the Canucks :(

What, no pornstars? :(

Yeah would have rocked for them!
Didn't he buy another NHL team?

do you really want it?

Well not yet I don't think, but he does own a Russia Elite team in Russia. But I think he is still looking to purchase one.

Yeh, like who would want that monster?

Paul Allen's Octopus

At 414 Ft. its the world's largest private yacht.

He spent over $200 Million to build it.

Takes a crew of 60 to run it. He has former US Navy Seals on the crew to provide security.

Carry's 7 smaller boats, 2 helicopters and a submarine on board.

Now get this, to fill up the gas tank on that puppy costs $300,000.



:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

That should be top 40 richest people under age 40 in the USA.

yes,that's Allen's boat. Abramovich has a much smaller one,still a monster and way better looking. I confused the name of it with Allen's. I'll post a couple of pics later.

The tech data is beautiful alone. :)

Matt

CAuz all the cosmetic bullshit and such

The riches one by FAR are all from technology :P

I wonder when I will get on this list? Because I do sale short ICQ afterall:thumbsup

fucking p-diddy! That is amazing.

I wish one of them would just drop me a million or something, they wouldnt notice it and I definitely would:1orglaugh

I would rather keep my name off such lists, knowing you have that kind of success is good enough.

Guess I didn't make the list year.

I suddenly got turned on