Show HN: Gorbes – Forbes ranks wealth, Gorbes ranks value created for others

Hi everyone,

I’ve been working on Gorbes.io: a small side project that tries to rethink how we measure success.

I’m from France, where people often have mixed feelings (hate rich people to be honest) about wealth. That got me wondering: what if we ranked people not by how much they own, but by how much wealth they’ve created for others?

Instead of ranking by personal net worth (like Forbes), Gorbes measures Distributed Value — the portion of a company’s value held by others because of someone’s work or leadership.

For this first version, I built a Top 10 list of tech builders, using a simple public-data formula:

Distributed Value = Enterprise Value × (1 − Ownership%) × Role Weight

Then I compare that to their personal net worth to show how much wealth they’ve created for others.

It’s still early and experimental — I’d love feedback on: • whether this approach makes sense • ideas for better data sources • or other ways to measure “real impact”

Thanks for reading!

Sacha