Saverin vs Schmidt

Meta Platforms (Facebook) and Alphabet (Google).

The differences

Forbes puts Eduardo Saverin about $1.3B ahead of Eric Schmidt.Forbes figures from 9 Oct 2026 and 9 Oct 2026.
Eduardo Saverin: co-founded it. Eric Schmidt: built it up.
Eric Schmidt is about 27 years older than Eduardo Saverin.
Eduardo Saverin is from Brazil; Eric Schmidt is from United States.
Eric Schmidt has held a public or government advisory role; Eduardo Saverin has none on record.

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Saverin

Schmidt

Net worth, Forbes: $39.3BForbes, 9 Oct 2026; $38BForbes, 9 Oct 2026
Net worth, Bloomberg: $38.6BBloomberg, 17 Oct 2026; $58.9BBloomberg, 11 Oct 2026
Forbes rank: No. 54Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026; No. 58Real-Time list, 9 Oct 2026
Billionaire since: Not stated; Not stated

How it started: Co-founded itCo-founded Facebook with Harvard classmates in 2004 and was its first investor; Bloomberg says he was cut from the company months later and a 2009 legal settlement secured his stake; Built it upNot a founder: joined Google as board chairman in March 2001, then CEO from 2001 to 2011; his fortune is mostly the Alphabet stock he acquired there
Main source: Meta Platforms stockBloomberg values his Meta stake at $37.9 billion of $38.6 billion; Alphabet stockBloomberg: 'The majority of Eric Schmidt's fortune is derived from a 1% economic interest in Alphabet'
Companies: Meta Platforms (Facebook), B CapitalMeta Platforms (Facebook): Co-founder; no role at the company; B Capital: Co-founder and co-CEO; Alphabet (Google), Relativity SpaceAlphabet (Google): None; former CEO and chairman; Relativity Space: CEO and executive chairman
Biggest stake: Meta Platforms (Facebook)2% owned; Alphabet (Google)1% owned

Born: 1982São Paulo, Brazil; 27 Apr 1955Washington, D.C., United States
Country: BrazilLives in Singapore; United StatesLives in Atherton, California, United States
Education: Bachelor's degreeBA, Harvard University; Graduate degreeBS electrical engineering, Princeton (1976); MS (1979) and PhD (1982) in computer science, University of California, Berkeley
Parents: His father Roberto runs a Miami-based pharmaceutical export business; his mother is a psychologist. The family moved from Brazil to the US in 1992; Grew up in Blacksburg, Virginia, where his father Wilson Schmidt was a professor of economics at Virginia Tech

Giving Pledge: Not a signer; Not a signer
Foundation: Elaine and Eduardo Saverin FoundationRegistered as a charity in Singapore in 2023; Schmidt Family FoundationWith his wife Wendy he also founded Schmidt Ocean Institute, Schmidt Futures (2017) and Schmidt Sciences (2024)
Lifetime giving: Not stated; $2BForbes, date not stated. Forbes: Wendy Schmidt 'has helped direct more than $2 billion in philanthropy alongside her husband Eric'; a joint figure, undated

Role now: Runs the companyCo-founder and co-CEO of B Capital; Runs the companyCEO and executive chairman of Relativity Space
Successor: Co-leads B Capital with co-founders Raj Ganguly and Howard MorganNo family member named in an executive role; Larry Page took back the Google CEO job from him in 2011No Schmidt family member is named in a Google executive role
Public office: None found; Member, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology; Chairman, Defense Innovation Board (US Department of Defense); Chairman, US National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence; Member, NASA National Space Council User Advisory Group2009-2017; 2016-2020; three years, including 2020; two years, including 2020
Legal record: None found; None found