Forbes magazine reveals the top 10 richest billionaires in the world for 2016. Their 30th annual list features 1,810 billionaires around the world with a total net worth of almost $6.5 trillion. This year marked the first time the average net worth of a billionaire dropped -- to $3.6 billion, down $300 million from last year. The U.S. has 540 billionaires. In India also the number of billionaires increasing as the years pass by.
Here is what we got for you the top five list of the richest people in the world. Which includes Bill gates the billionaire holds the record for being no 1 for most tomes.
5. Jeff Bezos
Net worth:
Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos (born January 12, 1964) is an American technology entrepreneur and investor. He has played a role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products and services, most recently video streaming. Amazon.com became the largest retailer on the World Wide Web and a model for Internet sales.
Bezos' other business interests include aerospace and newspapers. He is the founder and owner of the privately-funded aerospace developer and manufacturer Blue Origin, founded in 2000, with test flights to space beginning in 2015, and plans for commercial suborbital human spaceflight beginning in 2018. In 2013, Bezos purchased The Washington Post newspaper. A number of other business investments are managed through Bezos Expeditions.
As of July 2016, Bezos' personal wealth is estimated to be US$65.2 billion, due in part to a recent spike in Amazon's stock price, ranking him the 4th richest person in the world on the Forbes list of billionaires.
4. Carlos Slim Helu
Net worth: 50$ billion
Mexico City native and serial entrepreneur Slim Helu's father migrated from Lebanon to Mexico in the early 20th century and established himself in retail and real estate. Upon his death in 1953, control of his businesses was passed to his son Carlos Slim Helu.
In 1961, Slim Helu earned a Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). Upon graduation, Slim Helu founded investment company Inversora Bursatil, before acquiring bottling company Jarritos del Sur. He later set up real estate company Inmobiliaria Carso, predecessor to Grupo Carso. Through the 1960s and 1970s, Slim Helu founded and acquired various real estate, investment, leasing and printing companies and since the 1980s has also invested in industrial, real estate and commercial sectors.
In 1982, during the Mexican debt crisis, Grupo Carso invested in diverse fields by acquiring Cigatam, Hulera El Centenario, Bimex, Hoteles Calinda and Reynolds Aluminio. Also purchased diversified financial services provider Seguros de Mexico, and formed Grupo Financiero Inbursa by integrating Casa de Bolsa Inversora Bursatil, Seguros de Mexico and Fianzas La Guardiana. By 1985, Grupo Carso had acquired a controlling stake in Artes Graficas Unidas and Fabricas de Papel Loreto y Pena Pobre, and a majority stake in Sanborns and its affiliate, Dennys.
In 1986, Minera Frisco and Empresas Nacobre were acquired and later gained control of tire companies Euzkadi and General Tire. In 1990, Slim Helu took Grupo Carso's operations in heavy industry, services, retail and consumer goods public on the Mexican Stock Exchange
3. Warren Buffett
Net worth: 60$ billion
Chairman and chief executive officer, Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Warren E. Buffett, born in 1930, has been a director of the Berkshire Hathaway since 1965 and has been its chairman and chief executive since 1970. Mr. Buffett is a controlling person of the corporation. He also is a director of The Washington Post Co.
By the time he was 15, Warren had amassed $2,000 and used it to buy a 40-acre farm in Nebraska. He hired a farm laborer to work on the land, then used the profits to help pay his way through University. Warren graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, after which he applied to Harvard Business School. After being rejected by Harvard, Warren matriculated at Columbia Business School, where he graduated in 1951 with a Master of Science in Economics. While at Columbia, Warren studied under legendary value investor Benjamin Graham.
He is not only rich in wealth and also in heart. He donates almost 30-40% of his income to Milinda-gates foundation.
2. Amancio Ortega
Net Worth: 65$ billion
Amancio Ortega net worth is estimated at $65.4 billion according to Forbes as 2016. Amancio Ortega a mystery for press and public alike and a publicist's nightmare, is Spain's richest man and one of world's top 10.
Ortega is so notoriously publicity shy that before his public appearance in 2001, hardly anyone outside his close circle had seen him. The same level of secrecy was maintained by every family member during his first marriage. He never granted any interviews despite number of mails to his Organisation HQ from all the prestigious publications. Amancio Ortega net worth is a truly inspiring rags to rich story, he was born in abject poverty to a railroad worker.
Amancio Ortega net worth came from his business portfolio including fashion, gas, tourism, banks and on his real estate holdings around the globe. He started as a delivery boy in a textile firm. And now he is the second richest person in the world.
1. Bill Gates
Net Worth: 76.4$ billion
Starting in 1987, Gates was included in the Forbes list of the world's richest people and was the wealthiest from 1995 to 2007, again in 2009, and has been since 2014. Between 2009 and 2014, his wealth doubled from US$40 billion to more than US$82 billion. Between 2013 and 2014, his wealth increased by US$15 Gates is currently the wealthiest person in the world with a net worth of US$76.4 billion.
William Henry "Bill" Gates is his born name.In 1975, Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft, which became the world's largest PC software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, CEO and chief software architect, and was the largest individual shareholder until May 2014.Gates has authored and co-authored several books.
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