Matei Zaharia
Source of wealth: Data analytics
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The scale of their wealth
Health
The price of life
Let's compare Matei Zaharia's fortune with the healthcare spending of a massive country
Matei Zaharia could fund the entire healthcare system of DR Congo, with a population of over 105,800,000 people, for approximately 2.3 years.
But even if we compare their fortune with that of a rich country
On the other end, Matei Zaharia could cover the healthcare spending of Luxembourg, considered the most heavily funded healthcare system in the world, for 1.0 years.
Education
Buying the future
Let's also compare their fortune with education spending, first with a poor country
Matei Zaharia could cover the total cost of Nigeria's education system, the most populous country in Africa with over 243,000,000 inhabitants, for 1.5 years.
And yes, we can also compare it with a rich country
But they couldn't just cover the cost of a poor country; Luxembourg is considered the country with the highest per capita investment in education in the world, and Matei Zaharia could pay for it entirely for 2.0 years.
Research
The monopoly on progress
Coming full circle, we think it's also interesting to add another gigantic country
Matei Zaharia could fully fund the state research budget of Pakistan, the fifth most populous country in the world with over 260,000,000 inhabitants, for 8.5 years.
And of course, the country that invests the most per capita worldwide
But even if we compare the total wealth of Matei Zaharia with Israel, the country that invests the most per capita in research in the world, they could cover the total cost of the system for 0.2 years.
Gold
Everyday luxuries
Matei Zaharia's fortune is equivalent to 34 tons of gold. It's hard to process, since we don't usually keep a handful of gold bars in our piggy banks.
A standard gold ring usually weighs between 4 and 7 grams. Let's say this one weighs 5 grams. It's usually 18 karats.
Based on today's gold price (excluding the jeweler's commission, shipping, or anything else), that ring would be worth $546.86.
Matei Zaharia could buy 9,199,851 gold rings. That's a lot of fingers and way too many gifts!!
And if you're struggling to visualize that many rings, it would take 2 trucks to transport them. Although Matei Zaharia will almost certainly have enough money left over to pay for the gas.
Biography
Matei Zaharia is cofounder and chief technology officer of software startup Databricks, which private investors valued at $134 billion in February.
He is the mastermind behind popular analytics engine Apache Spark, which was conceived when he was a 24-year-old Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley.
Spark set a world record for speed of data sorting in 2014 and won Zaharia an award for the year's best computer science dissertation.
In 2013, Zaharia and six UC Berkeley collaborators cofounded Databricks, whose software is built on top of Spark.
He has led development on multiple new, AI-powered features beyond Spark.
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