Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world with a fortune of $130 billion. At a recent awards event hosted by Axel Springer, Bezos said he liquidates a whopping $1 billion in Amazon stock every year to fund Blue Origin.
Forbes has pinned down a record 2,208 billionaires from 72 countries and territories including the first ever from Hungary and Zimbabwe. This elite group is worth $9.1 trillion, up 18% since last year.
LVMH's Bernard Arnault In Top Five Of Forbes Billionaires List -- See Other Watch World Billionaires Last week, Forbes posted its 2018 World’s Billionaires list, wherein it named record 2,208 billionaires from around the globe.
However, instead of forming a charitable corporation to donate the value of the stock to, as Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Page, Sergey Brin and other tech billionaires have done, Zuckerberg and Chan chose to use the structure of a limited liability company.
Amancio Ortega is 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 (d. 2013) in 1975.
Carlos Slim Helú (Spanish pronunciation:; born January 28, 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world.