THE 2018 LIST
Bozos attended
Princeton and worked at a hedge fund before quitting to sell books
online.
Jeff Bezos
CEO and Founder, Amazon.com
REAL TIME NET WORTH — as
of 5/21/18
$130.2
B
2018
BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH — as of 3/6/18
$112
B
·
Amazon's chief Jeff Bezos is the first person to top $100 billion
as number one on the Forbes list of the World's Billionaires.
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He owns 16% of e-commerce colossus Amazon, which he founded in a
garage in Seattle in 1994.
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Bezos attended Princeton and worked at a hedge fund before
quitting to sell books online.
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His other passion is space travel: His aerospace company, Blue
Origin, is developing a reusable rocket that Bezos says will carry passengers.
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Bezos purchased The Washington Post in 2013 for $250
·
Bill Gates
Cofounder, Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation
REAL TIME NET WORTH — as
of 5/21/18
$92.5
B
2018
BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH — as of 3/6/18
$90
B
·
With his wife Melinda, Bill Gates chairs the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable foundation.
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The foundation works to save lives and improve global health, and
is working with Rotary International to eliminate polio.
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Gates has sold or given away much of his stake in Microsoft -- he
owns just over 1% of shares -- and invested in a mix of stocks and other
assets.
·
He remains a board member of Microsoft, the software firm he
founded with Paul Allen in 1975.
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In late 2016, Gates announced the launch of a $1 billion
Breakthrough Energy investment fund with about 20 other people.
Warren Buffett
CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
REAL TIME NET WORTH — as
of 5/21/18
$84.1
B
2018
BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH — as of 3/6/18
$84
B
·
Known as the "Oracle of Omaha," Warren Buffett is one of
the most successful investors of all time.
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He runs Berkshire Hathaway, which owns more than 60 companies,
including insurer Geico, battery maker Duracell and restaurant chain Dairy Queen.
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The son of a U.S. congressman, he first bought stock at age 11 and
first filed taxes at age 13.
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He has committed to giving more than 99% of his fortune to
charity. So far he has given nearly $32 billion.
·
With friend Bill Gates he launched The Giving Pledge in 2010,
asking billionaires to donate half their wealth to charitable causes.
Bernard Arnault & family
Chairman and CEO, LVMH Moet
Hennessy Louis Vuitton
REAL TIME NET WORTH — as
of 5/21/18
$87.2
B
2018
BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH — as of 3/6/18
$72
B
·
One of the world's ultimate taste-makers, Bernard Arnault oversees
an empire of 70 brands including Louis Vuitton and Sephora.
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Record results at LVMH and a megadeal to buy out nearly all of
Christian Dior helped boost Arnault's fortune by $30.5 billion in one year.
·
Arts patron is the visionary behind the $135 million Frank
Gehry-designed Foundation Louis Vuitton museum in Paris' Bois de Boulogne,
opened in 2014.
Mark Zuckerberg
Cofounder, Chairman and CEO,
Facebook
REAL TIME NET WORTH — as
of 5/21/18
$72.3
B
2018
BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH — as of 3/6/18
$71
B
·
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, has seen his net worth soar as
the social network's stock price has skyrocketed.
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In April 2018, he testified before Congress after it was revealed
that Facebook shared users' data with political consulting firm Cambridge
Analytica.
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Zuckerberg started Facebook at Harvard in 2004 at the age of 19
for students to match names with faces in class.
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He took Facebook public in May 2012 and still owns nearly 17% of
the stock.
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Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have pledged to give away
99% of their Facebook stake over their lifetimes.
Amancio Ortega
REAL TIME NET WORTH — as
of 5/21/18
$70.9
B
2018
BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH — as of 3/6/18
$70
B
·
Amancio Ortega is one of the richest men in Europe and the
wealthiest retailer in the world.
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A pioneer in fast fashion, he cofounded Inditex, known for its
Zara fashion chain, with his ex-wife Rosalia Mera (d. 2013) in 1975.
·
He owns about 60% of Madrid-listed Inditex, which has 8 brands,
including Massimo Dutti and Pull & Bear, and 7,500 stores around the world.
7.
Carlos Slim Helu & family
Honorary Chairman, America
Movil SAB de CV (ADR)
REAL TIME NET WORTH — as
of 5/21/18
$61.5
B
2018
BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH — as of 3/6/18
$67.1
B
·
Mexico's richest man, Carlos Slim Helu and his family control
America Movil, Latin America's biggest mobile telecom firm.
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With foreign telecom partners, Slim bought a stake in Telmex,
Mexico's only phone company, in 1990. Telmex is now part of America Movil.
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He also owns stakes in Mexican construction, consumer goods,
mining and real estate companies and 17% of The New York Times.
Charles Koch
CEO, Koch Industries
REAL TIME NET WORTH — as
of 5/21/18
$61.8
B
2018
BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH — as of 3/6/18
$60
B
·
Charles Koch has been chairman and CEO of Koch Industries,
America's second largest private company, since 1967.
·
The conglomerate has $100 billion in revenues from businesses
including pipelines, chemicals, Dixie cups, Brawny paper towels and Stainmaster
carpets.
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His father, Fred Koch, started the business in 1940 and improved a
method of refining heavy oil into gasoline.
David Koch
Executive Vice President,
Koch Industries
REAL TIME NET WORTH — as
of 5/21/18
$61.8
B
2018
BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH — as of 3/6/18
$60
B
·
David Koch shares majority control of Koch Industries, U.S's
second largest private firm, with his brother Charles.
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The Kansas native lives in New York City, and oversees Koch's
chemical technology group.
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Koch Industries, which has revenues of $100 billion, operates
pipelines, produces fertilizer and makes Dixie cups and Quilted Northern toilet
paper.
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A well-known philanthropist, David is a donor to New York's
Lincoln Center and Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
·
David Koch ran as the Libertarian Party's vice presidential
candidate in 1980 on a ticket with Ed Clark; they won 1% of the vote.
Larry Ellison
CTO and Founder, Oracle
REAL TIME NET WORTH — as
of 5/21/18
$56.9
B
2018
BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH — as of 3/6/18
$58.5
B
·
Larry Ellison cofounded software firm Oracle in 1977 to tap into
the growing need for customer relationship management databases.
·
He gave up the Oracle CEO role in 2014 but still serves as
chairman of the board and chief technology officer.
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As part of Oracle's push into cloud computing, it acquired
cloud-software firm Netsuite for $9.3 billion in 2016.
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Oracle moved into hardware with its 2010 acquisition of Sun
Microsystems for $7.4 billion.
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In 2016, Ellison pledged to give $200 million to the University of
Southern California for a cancer treatment center.
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