The world's wealthiest people all have certain things in common legendary work ethics breakthrough ideas and absolute commitment to their companies here are the top five richest people around the globe according to the latest real-time net worth figures on Forbes.
1:Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos with net worth of approximately 109 billion dollars in 1994 Bezos founded amazon.com in a garage and the company began service as an online bookstore Bezos initially incorporated the company in Washington State with the name Cadabra he later changed the name to amazon.com he remains CEO and owns a nearly 12% stake he divorced his wife Mackenzie in july 2019 after 25 years of marriage and transferred one-quarter of his amazon stake to her though amazon.com originally started out selling books it has since morphed into a one-stop shop for everything under the Sun and is arguably the world's most important retailer Bezos other projects include aerospace company Blue Origin The Washington Post which he bought in 2013 and the 10,000 year clock also known as the lung now.
2:Bill Gates
Bill Gates with net worth of approximately 106 billion dollars a
permanent fixture at the top of Forbes list for the past 20 years the
Microsoft founder has sold or given away much of his stake in the
company he owns just 1% of Microsoft and now focuses predominantly on
his philanthropic work with his wife Melinda Bill Gates chairs the Bill
and Melinda Gates nation the world's largest private Charitable
Foundation through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation he has spent
billions to fight polio and malaria additionally he pledged fifty
million dollars in 2014 to help fight Ebola.
3:Bernard Arnault
Bernard Arnault with net worth close to one hundred six billion
dollars Arno is the wealthiest European on the list French national
Bernard Arnault is the chairman and CEO of the world's biggest luxury
goods company LVMH the company owns some of the biggest brands on earth
including Louis Vuitton Hennessy Bulgari Marc Jacobs Dior Sephora and
many more his own investments are broad including technology concerns
and yacht companies.
4:Warren Buffet
Warren Buffett with net worth of 87 billion dollars Warren Buffett
filed his first tax return at the age of 14 declaring his earnings from
his boyhood paper route Warren Buffett is widely known as the Oracle of
Omaha for his knack for value investing Buffett runs Berkshire Hathaway
which owns more than 60 companies including insurer Geico battery maker
Duracell and restaurant chain Dairy Queen he has pledged give away
more than 99% of his fortune in charity.
5:Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg with net worth of 74 billion dollars
zuckerberg started Facebook in 2004 at the age of 19 and now is among
the top 5 richest men in the world CEO of Facebook is the second Harvard
dropout in the top 5 he took Facebook public May 2012 and still owns
about 15% of stock in December 2015 Zuckerberg and his wife
Priscilla Chan pledged to give away 99% of their Facebook's take over
their lifetimes.Facebook is a world popular social media platform.
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