Software Selloff Hits Industry's Billionaires -- WSJ

Dow Jones
02/05

By WSJ Staff

Having skin in the game has never hurt so much, at least for some of the software industry's wealthy founders and executives.

This month's selloff in software has shaved billions of dollars from the value of the shares held by Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison and AppLovin CEO Adam Foroughi.

Their companies shares have tumbled 25% and 43% so far this year, respectively, amid a broader downturn in software brought on by fears that new artificial-intelligence tools will sap demand for applications used by companies.

According to Bloomberg News's Billionaires Index, software company founders and executives dominate the list of wealthy Americans who have experienced the steepest losses to their net worth this year. Bloomberg's analysis showed that Ellison alone lost nearly $40 billion in net worth.

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