Richest Persons In The World
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Top 20 Richest Persons In The World. They are the richest people in the world, the game changers who helped to reshape the world. These world’s richest people all have certain things in common: legendary work ethics, breakthrough ideas, and […]
Top 20 Richest Persons In The World. They are the richest people in the world, the game changers who helped to reshape the world. These world’s richest people all have certain things in common: legendary work ethics, breakthrough ideas, and absolute commitment to their companies. Sit tight to know the comparison among the richest people in the world.
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Charles Koch:
An American businessman and philanthropist was born and lives in Wichita, Kansas.
Koch is the co-owner and CEO of Koch Industries. His industries now include process and pollution control equipment and technologies; polymers and fibers; minerals; fertilizers; commodity trading and services; forest and consumer products; and ranching.
Koch Industries is the second largest privately held company by revenue in the United States.
His net worth is 43.2 billion dollars.
Jack Ma:
He is the founder of Alibaba, and although he’s been one of the richest people in Asia for several years.
Jack Ma was born in Ma Yun on 10 September 1964 in China. He began studying English at a young age by conversing with English speakers at the Hangzhou International Hotel. For nine years, Ma would ride 17 miles on his bicycle to give tourists tours of the area to practice his English. He became pen pals with one of those foreigners, who nicknamed him “Jack” because he found it hard to pronounce his Chinese name.
Jack was rejected from multiple jobs, including KFC, when it was first introduced to China. His net worth is 44 billion dollars.
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Mukesh Ambani:
He is an Indian business magnate, currently chairman, managing director, and largest shareholder of Reliance Industries Limited.
Ambani has been the richest man in Asia for a while now, and this year, he’s moving up on the list of the richest worldwide! His net worth is 44.6 billion dollars.
Jim Walton:
He is the youngest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton.
He gave away $1.2 billion in Walmart stock in June 2019, but remains the richest Walton in part thanks to an estimated 44% stake in Arvest Bank.
He sat on Walmart’s board for more than a decade before yielding the seat to his son, Steuart, in June 2016. Collectively, he and other heirs of Sam Walton own about half of Walmart’s stock.
Jim and Sister Alice are spearheading a program that will issue $300 million in bonds to help charter schools invest in facilities. His net worth is 45 billion dollars.
Ma Huateng:
Ma Huateng is a Chinese business magnate, investor, philanthropist, engineer, internet and technology entrepreneur. He’s also the founder of Tencent, which is the most valuable company in Asia.
Time magazine called him one of the world’s most influential people, who is also now on the list of one of the world’s richest people. Being one of the “Fortune world’s greatest leaders,” Ma is known for his low-profile personality as compared to fellow Chinese businessman Jack Ma’s outgoing personality. Ma has been closely compared to American investor Warren Buffett for their similar investment philosophies and is often described as an “aggressive acquisitor.” His net worth is 46.1 billion dollars.
Carlos Slim Helu:
He is a Mexican businessman and investor; owner of the conglomerate ‘Grupo Carso’. The conglomerate’s portfolio consists of brands in many different industries, such as health care, media, energy, real estate, and retail.
Despite recovering from the fall in his net worth last year, he’s still fallen yet another place on this list of the richest people in the world. His net worth is 47.7 billion dollars.
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers:
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers and her family own 33% of L’Oreal stock. She runs the family’s holding company as chairwoman. She became France’s reigning L’Oreal Heiress in 2017 when her mother Liliane Bettencourt, then the world’s richest woman, died at age 94.
The granddaughter of L’Oreal’s founder, she is the richest woman in Europe. Her inheritance was the subject of a sensational trial in France, in which a man was convicted of manipulating her ailing mother for her fortune.
She serves as the president of her family’s philanthropic foundation, which encourages French progress in the sciences and arts. His net worth is 53.8 billion dollars.
Michael Bloomberg:
An American entrepreneur and politician and also the founder and CEO of Bloomberg L.P., the financial data and media company. He is now 74 years old and remains one of the richest men in the world.
He has added another $11 billion dollars to his net worth recently, which has caused him to sit nicely at 14th on this list. His net worth is 55.2 billion dollars.
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Sergey Brin:
He stepped down as president of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, in December 2019 but remains a controller shareholder and a board member.
Google went public in 2004 and changed its name to Alphabet in 2015. Brin has been absent from public Alphabet events for much of 2019; he spends his time on Alphabet’s moonshot research lab X. He is reportedly funding a high-tech airship project. His net worth is 56.3 billion dollars.
Robson Walton:
He is the eldest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton. He took over as Walmart’s chairman upon his father’s death in 1992.
He retired as chairman in June 2015 and was replaced by his son-in-law Greg Penner. He still sits on Walmart’s board.
He and other heirs of Sam Walton collectively own about half of Walmart’s stock. After a deadly mass shooting at one of its stores, Walmart said in September 2019 it would limit ammunition sales and discourage ‘open carry’ of guns. He is also a well-known collector of automobiles. His net worth is 57.6 billion dollars.
Alice Walton:
She is the only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton.
She has focused on curating art rather than working for Walmart like her siblings, Rob and Jim. In 2011, she opened the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in her hometown, Bentonville, Arkansas.
Crystal Bridges features works from the likes of Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell, and Mark Rothko. She and Brother Jim are spearheading a program that will issue $300 million in bonds to help charter schools invest in facilities. His net worth is 57.1 billion dollars.
Larry Page:
He stepped down as CEO of Alphabet, the parent of Google, in December 2019 but continues as a board member and a controlling shareholder. He cofounded Google in 1998 with fellow Stanford Ph.D. student Sergey Brin.
With Brin, Page invented Google’s PageRank algorithm, which powers the search engine. Page was CEO until 2001, when Eric Schmidt took over, and then from 2011 until 2015, when he became CEO of Google’s new parent company, Alphabet.
He is a founding investor in space exploration company Planetary Resources and is also funding “flying car” startups Kitty Hawk and Opener. His net worth is 58.4 billion dollars.
Amancio Ortega:
One of the richest men in Europe and the wealthiest retailer in the world. A pioneer in fast fashion, he cofounded Inditex, known for its Zara fashion chain, with his ex-wife Rosalia Mera 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. Ortega typically earns more than $400 million in dividends a year.
He has invested his dividends primarily into real estate in Madrid, Barcelona, London, Chicago, Miami, and New York. His net worth is 60.3 billion dollars.
Steve Ballmer:
He is the high-wattage former CEO of Microsoft, who led the company from 2000 to 2014. He joined Microsoft in 1980 as employee No. 30 after dropping out of Stanford’s MBA program.
Ballmer oversaw Microsoft at a difficult time, after the first dot-com crash and through efforts to catch Google in search and Apple in mobile phones. The same year he retired from Microsoft, he bought the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion.
He has ramped up his philanthropy since 2014, putting over $2 billion into a donor-advised fund with a focus on lifting Americans out of poverty. In 2018, he invested $59 million in Social Solutions, which makes software for nonprofits and government agencies. His net worth is 64 billion dollars.
Mark Zuckerberg:
We all know him as the founder of Facebook. Facebook has become the most popular and valuable social media company in the world. And it all started in Mark’s dorm room at Harvard University.
He has recently dropped off from the 3rd spot after losing a lot of his net worth due to the Cambridge data scandal and various other issues causing the Facebook stock prices to fall. His net worth is 66.4 billion dollars.
Larry Ellison:
He is the co-founder of the Oracle Corporation, and he was also the company’s CEO until September 2014.
Over the years, Oracle has become an incredibly successful tech company, now being 39 years old and employing over 136,000 people. His net worth is 69.1 billion dollars.
Warren Buffett:
He is an American entrepreneur and investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett is the most successful investor worldwide, and millions of other traders look up to him because of his success.
However, despite this fact being on the list of the top richest person, he still lives in the home he purchased back when he didn’t even know what a billion dollars looked like.
What a humble guy! Can you guess who the next richest person is? Many of our favorites! His net worth is 74.7 billion dollars.
Bernard Arnault:
Born on 5 March 1949, is a French billionaire business magnate and art collector. He is the CEO of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey.
Ultimately, the company was formed by merging the two businesses together. Louis Vuitton is a very successful luxury fashion brand, and Moet Hennessey is the merged champagne and cognac manufacturers.
Bernard has been making serious movements up this list in the past year. In fact, at the beginning of 2017, he was at 14th. Now, a full 3 years later, he’s placed at 2nd on the list of the 20 richest people on earth in 2020. His net worth is 94.4 billion dollars.
Bill Gates:
Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, on October 28, 1955.
He chose a pre-law major but took mathematics and graduate-level computer science courses. While at Harvard, he met fellow student Steve Ballmer. Gates left Harvard after two years, while Ballmer stayed and graduated magna cum laude. Years later, Ballmer succeeded Gates as Microsoft’s CEO and maintained that position from 2000 until his resignation in 2014.
With his wife Melinda, he chairs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private charitable foundation. The foundation works to improve global health and to create equal opportunity for people around the globe.
Gates has sold or given away much of his stake in Microsoft; he owns just over 1% of shares and has 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.
In early 2019, he responded to the public backlash against billionaires by reiterating his support for a higher estate tax.
To date, he has donated $35.8 billion worth of Microsoft stock to the Gates Foundation. His net worth is 104.9 billion dollars.
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Jeff Bezos:
Born on January 12, 1964, Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and later Miami, he graduated from Princeton University in 1986 with a degree in electrical engineering and computer science.
He founded e-commerce colossus Amazon in 1994 out of his garage in Seattle. 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.
His 4% slice of Amazon makes her one of the world’s richest women. In 2018, Amazon had $230 billion in revenues and a record $10 billion in net profit, up from $3 billion the prior year.
In February, Amazon announced it was canceling plans for a second headquarters in Long Island City, New York, after local lawmakers opposed the plan. Bezos owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company that is developing a rocket for commercial use.
Jeff Bezos is the first richest person in history ever to reach the $100 billion mark, which is just insane! His net worth is 143.1 billion dollars.
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