In its September 2000 issue, the American magazine Fortune published a list of the 40 richest Americans age 40 and below. Except for NBA star Michael Jordan, who was 40th on the list, the other 39 all come from the field of high technology, including the Chinese-American founder of Yahoo, Jerry Yang, whose net worth was assessed at US $ 5.8 billion.
二○○○年九月，美國「財星」雜誌公佈「四十歲以下美國四十大富豪」排行榜，除了排名第四十的 NBA 職籃明星喬丹之外，其餘前三十九名全是來自高科技業範疇的富豪，其中包括排名第四的華人偶像「雅虎」創辦人楊致遠，總資產為五十八億五千萬美元。