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Apple, world's most valuable company, seeds few of world's biggest fortunes

CEO Tim Cook has a $600 million fortune, which reflects a pay program that's restrained relative to the company's size and performance

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An iPhone 8 is displayed at the Apple Orchard Shop in Singapore (Photo: Reuters)

Tom Metcalfe and Anders Melin | Bloomberg
Finding billionaires in Silicon Valley isn’t hard. Dropbox Inc.’s Arash Ferdowsi and Veeva Systems Inc.’s Peter Gassner have both crossed the threshold this year, and tech fortunes make up a fifth - or about $1 trillion - of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

But tracking down members of the three-comma club at Apple Inc. is a less fruitful endeavor, even though the iPhone-maker is the world’s most valuable company, with a market capitalization of $879 billion.

Chairman Art Levinson is the only insider to make the cut, and Apple stock accounts for just 20 percent of his $1 billion fortune, according to regulatory