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Read the article. It calculates wealth creation in a very specific way, looking at public company value minus what the founder/largest shareholder holds. Obviously that doesn't apply to Linus Torvalds.

Obviously this is only a very small slice of what "wealth" means, but it's easy to calculate and objective.

What's his "company"?

This is a list of people.

Yes I was seeing it as a list of people. Even if you ignore Linux and focus only on the amount of wealth Git has created... ...I still think he'd be at the top.

I agree, I was just responding to the idea that there should be a company behind the people.

This is a list of people, not companies, so why should there necessarily be one?

His organization is The Linux Foundation.

Jimmy Wales too

Though he also eliminated a lot of value for shareholders of World Book, Encyclopaedia Britannica, etc

This is a list looking at how various billionaires have done. He's not anywhere near being a billionaire.