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The #1 spot on Fortune Magazine's list of billionaires is yet again helmed by a giant in technology - Mexican telco billionaire, Carlos Slim. I find this somewhat comforting because I can remember a time, sometime around the late 90s, when I was doing some work with a startup operation, and the VCs who funded it kept reminding us of how they (the money people) who're the incumbents in real world business.

I'll never forget their comment about how technology is really "nothing" and that technuts like myself put it together and dress it up real nice so people get the "preception" that what we do is worth something and relevant. They were a nice bunch of VCs, so we never had much to say to them.

It's good to know that their long-held believes are still "true". Funny. I wonder what's happened to that VC firm today? :)

My dear friends. Technology has always been, and forever will be, about people. People putting together solutions for the benefit of other people. Technology in itself is just a nice sounding word that always peeks imagination, especially of things to come. But the things to come, can only come if there are people in the equation.

Anyway, thank you Mr. Slim for being number one. Thank you Mr. Gates and Mr. Buffet for being generous with your money.

Last but not least, thank you Yahoo! and Google for always shaping the web in such a way so that we can continue to wonder about the things to come - no matter if what you're selling us is really "nothing". Who cares, right? We're all about the people :)

News excerpt:
MEXICO CITY, Mexico (Reuters) -- Mexican telecom billionaire Carlos Slim has overtaken Microsoft founder Bill Gates as the world's wealthiest man with riches of $59 billion, according to Fortune magazine. Link: Gates deposed as world's richest - CNN.com