Top 10 Richest Global People

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  1. Jeffrey Preston Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American businessman, industrialist, media owner, and investor. Bezos is best known as the founder, CEO and chairman of the multinational company Amazon.


    Bezos is included in the first "centibillionaire" list according to the wealth assessment from Forbes, the richest person in the world since 2017 and was named "richest person in modern history" after valuing his fortune increased to $150 Billion USD in July 2018.


    In September 2018, Forbes described Jeff Bezos as "richer than anyone else on the planet" as his fortune increased by $1.8 billion as Amazon became the second company in history to reach a market cap of 1 billion USD.


    Net worth: $177B

    Country: United States

    Source: Amazon

    "I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all." - JEFF BEZOS - ZIng

  2. Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971), is a South African-American engineer, financier, inventor, technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is also a dual citizen of South Africa and Canada. He is the founder, CEO and chief engineer and designer of SpaceX; original investor, CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc.; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink; co-founder and original co-chair of OpenAI.


    He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. In December 2016, he was ranked 21st on Forbes' list of the World's Most Powerful People, and topped the list. He also topped Forbes' 2019 list of most innovative leaders. As of January 7, 2021, his net worth is estimated at $188.5 billion and he is listed by Bloomberg Billionaires Index and Forbes the World's Real- Time Billionaires ranks as the richest person in the world. He is the longest-serving CEO of any automaker globally.


    Net worth: $151B

    Country: United States

    Source: Tesla, SpaceX

    "I operate on the physics approach to analysis. You boil things down to the first principles or fundamental truths in a particular area and then you reason up from there." - ELON MUSK - News - Bada Business
  3. Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault (born 5 March 1949) is a French business magnate, investor and art collector. Arnault is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods company. He is the richest person in the world according to Forbes magazine, with a net worth of 186 billion USD, as of 2021. In April 2018, he became the richest person in fashion as well as in Europe, surpassing the list. This brand is by Zara's Amancio Ortega.


    After graduation, Arnault joined his father's company in 1971. In 1976, he persuaded his father to liquidate the company's construction division for 40 million French francs and change the company's focus to real estate. Using the name Férinel, the new company has developed a specialty in the lodge. Named Director of Corporate Development in 1974, he became CEO in 1977. In 1979, he succeeded his father as president of the company.


    In January 2021, LVMH completed its acquisition of American jeweler Tiffany & Co for $15.8 billion, arguably the largest luxury brand acquisition ever.


    Net worth: $150B

    Country: France

    Source: LVMH

    "I see myself as an ambassador of French heritage and French culture. What we create is emblematic. It's linked to Versailles, to Marie Antoinette." - BERNARD ARNAULT - CafeLand
  4. William Henry Bill Gates (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman, philanthropist, author and chairman of Microsoft Corporation, the software giant he founded with Paul Allen. He is always on the list of the richest people in the world and was the richest person in the world from 1995 to 2014, except for March 2013, March 2012, March 2011 (2nd place) and 2008 when he only ranked third. In May 2013, Bill Gates regained the title of the richest person in the world. In fact Bill Gates is an incomplete learner. At Microsoft, Gates is the CEO and chief software architect for the development of the corporation. Currently, he is the largest individual shareholder in the group, holding over 8 percent of the shares. He is also the author and co-author of several books.


    Gates is one of the most famous entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Despite his many admirers, many of his competitors have criticized his business tactics, which they consider unfair or monopolistic competition, and his company has suffered a number of lawsuits and litigation. Near the end of his career, Gates pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, making and donating large sums of money to charities and scientific research through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was established in 2000.


    Net worth: $124B

    Country: United States

    Source: Microsoft

    "Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organization and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world." - BILL GATES - cafechungkhoan
  5. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg (born May 14, 1984) is an American computer programmer and Internet technology entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Meta (originally called Facebook), and currently runs the company as president and chief executive officer. He is currently the 5th richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $97 billion.


    Zuckerberg launched Facebook in his dorm room at Harvard University on February 4, 2004. In the process of creating, building and perfecting this social network, he received help from his classmates and other Harvard students such as Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. After successfully creating and designing, his team later introduced Facebook to other universities. Since then, Facebook has grown rapidly, hitting one billion users in 2012. Also with the help of others, Zuckerberg has been embroiled in numerous legal disputes brought by others along with other members of the group, who claim that part of the company's capital is based on their participation. into the founding and development of Facebook.

    Net worth: $97B

    Country: United States

    Source: Facebook

    "We may not have the power to create the world we want immediately, but we can all start working on the long term today." - MARK ZUCKERBERG - doanhnhanphaply
  6. Warren Edward Buffett was born on August 30, 1930 in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, is an American great investor, businessman and philanthropist. He is the world's most successful investor, largest shareholder and director of Berkshire Hathaway, and is ranked by Forbes magazine as the sixth-richest person in the world with an estimated net worth of $96 billion.


    He is known as the "Legend of Omaha" or "The Sage of Omaha", very well known for his steadfastness in the philosophy of value investing as well as his frugal lifestyle despite his huge wealth. For example, his salary in 2006 was only 100,000 USD, a very small number compared to managers at companies of the same size as Berkshire Hathaway; and in 2007 and 2008, he only received a total of 170,000 USD each year, of which the basic salary was 100,000. He now lives in a home he bought in 1958 in Omaha for $31,500 (now worth about $700,000), although he also owns another $4 million home in Laguna Beach, California. In 1989, he used $9.7 million of Berkshire's budget to buy a private-class jet and jokingly named it "The Indefensible" because he used to criticize the directors of any airline for doing so.


    Net worth: $96B

    Country: United States

    Source: Berkshire Hathaway

    "Rational people don't risk what they have and need for what they don't have and don't need." - WARREN BUFFETT - The35Express
  7. Lawrence Joseph Larry Ellison (born August 17, 1944) is an American magnate, co-founder and chief executive officer of Oracle Corporation, specializing in administrative software. As of March 2019, he was listed by Forbes magazine as the third-richest person in the United States and seventh-richest person in the world, with a fortune of $62.5 billion, up from $58.5 billion in 2018 and as of October 68 billion dollars.


    During the 1970s, after a brief stint at Amdahl Corporation, Ellison worked for Ampex Corporation. One of his projects was to build a database for the CIA, which he named "Oracle". Ellison was inspired by an article by Edgar F. Codd about linked database systems called "A Relational Model of Data for Large Shared Data Banks". In 1977, he founded the Software Development Laboratories SDL with two associates and an investment of $2,000. He personally contributed $1,200.

    In 1979, the company changed its name to Relational Software Inc., then again to Oracle after its key product, Oracle Database. He had heard of the IBM System R database, also based on Codd's theory, and he wanted Oracle to be compatible with it, but this was not possible because IBM refused to share the System R code. Oracle's last release top is Oracle 2; no Oracle 1.


    Net worth: $93B

    Country: United States

    Source: Software

    "When people start telling you that you're crazy, you just might be on to the most important innovation in your life." - LARRY ELLISON - Zing
  8. Lawrence Edward Larry Page (born March 26, 1973 in Lansing, Michigan) is an American businessman who co-founded the Google search engine with Sergey Brin. Page is currently the chief executive officer (CEO) of Alphabet Inc, the parent company of Google. He has assumed this role since July 2015. The position of CEO of Google is currently held by Sundar Pichai. According to Larry Page, Alphabet is a company that is finding ways to make big advances in so many industries.

    In 2007, along with Brin and Eric E. Schmidt, Larry Page was voted by PC World magazine as the number one most important person among the 50 most important people of the web world. Page also invested in Tesla Motors, which is developing the Tesla Roadster, an electric vehicle that can go 250 miles.


    Net worth: $91.5B

    Country: United States

    Source: Google

    "You never lose a dream; it just incubates as a hobby." - LARRY PAGE - Bstyle
  9. Sergey Brin (born August 21, 1973 in Moscow, Russia), is a Jewish-American businessman who also co-founded Google with Larry Page. Brin is currently the Chief Technical Officer of Google and has an estimated fortune of $89 billion, making him the nineth richest person in the world.


    Sergey expressed his passion for the Internet at an early age while studying at Stanford. He is the author and co-author of many papers on data warehousing and extraction modeling. He also wrote software to easily convert TeX, a language used for scientific articles, to HTML format, and built a website for movie ratings.


    Sergey's turning point was when he met Larry Page, the future co-chair of Google. It is strange that although the two did not like each other when they first met at Stanford's Computer Science Graduation ceremony, they soon found a common interest: finding similar information from other people. Together they co-authored a paper entitled "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”. This is considered their embryonic contribution. The paper became one of the 10 most read scientific papers at Stanford University.


    Net worth: $89B

    Country: United States

    Source: Google

    "Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world." - SERGEY BRIN - Biography
  10. Mukesh Ambani (born 19 April 1957) is an Indian financier who is the chairman and chief executive officer of Reliance Industries - India's largest privately held company, listed on the Fortune 500 list and a of the largest corporations in the world. As of October 2021, he is the richest person in Asia and the 10th richest person in the world with a net worth of 84.5 billion US dollars.


    He holds a 48% stake in Reliance Industries.


    As of July 2010, he is the richest person in Asia and the fourth richest person in the world with a total net worth of 29 billion USD. On October 29, 2007, there was a strong price speculation in the Indian stock market and the appreciation of the Indian Rupee, which boosted the market capitalization of every company of the Reliance group. At that time, Mukesh Ambani was the owner of many shares of the group, leading to him becoming the richest person in the world at that time, with a total worth of 63.2 billion USD far exceeding the total net worth. Bill Gates at that time was about $ 56 billion.


    Net worth: $84.5B

    Country: India

    Source: diversified

    "Anything and everything that can go digital is going digital. India cannot afford to be left behind." - MUKESH AMBANI - Bstyle



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