About one third of California's technology fortunes are built on Google's soaring stock, according to Forbes' latest list of the world's billionaires. Including Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the search engine founders, Google's domination of text advertising has pushed eight people into the rankings. Apart from chief exec Eric Schmidt, the names include Omid Kordestani, who led the company's business development; Andy Bechtolsheim, Ram Shriram and David Cheriton, angel investors in the two Stanford computer science students; and, filling out the list, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins, who was pushed over the billion mark by his cut of the venture fund's profits from its investment in Google. Forbes' full list is here; and here's what you care about, Valleywag's pared-down list of California tech fortunes.

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