1. Jeff Bezos
- Net Worth: $112 billion
- Founder: Amazon (AMZN)
In the year 1994, Bezos founded Amazon.com in a Seattle, in a small period of time after he quit from the hedge fund giant D.E. Shaw. , he had an original idea of online bookstore to his former boss David E. Shaw (a rumor that Shaw himself has confirmed),
Amazon.com begins in book selling, it has since changed into a one-stop-shop for everything under the sun, and is the world's most important retailer. At any rate, it is difficult to diagree its self-description as the most customer-centric company." Its style of regular change is evident in some of its unexpected recent expansions, which include its acquisition of Whole Foods in 2017 and its launching of its own branded over-the-counter drugs in February 2018.
Bezos set Amazon public in the year 1997, and has gone to become the first man to achieve a net worth of over $100 million. Bezos' other projects include aerospace company Blue Origin, the Washington Post (which he bought in 2013), and the 10,000-year clock, also known as the Long Now. (See also: Jeff Bezos: Introduction.)
2. Bill Gates
- Net Worth: $90 billion
- Co-Founder: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
One of the two Harvard dropouts in the Top Five, Bill Gates' knack for increasing wealth is stumbling, even for a rich guy. The Microsoft co-founder's net worth has more than dincreased since 2009.
Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he has also spent $30 billion over the past 14 years to fight polio and malaria. In addition, he spent $50 million last year to help fight Ebola.Bill Gates is currently a board member for Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A).
3. Warren Buffett
- Net Worth: $84 billion
- Best Investor of the 20th Century
Warren Buffet is a wealthy and famous living value investor, Warren Buffet filed his first tax return in 1944 at age 14, saying his earnings from his boyhood paper route.
He bought a shares in a textile company called Berkshire Hathaway in 1962,and become the majority shareholder by 1964. He enlarged the company to the insurance and other investments in 1967. Now, Berkshire Hathaway is a half-trillion-dollar company, with a single share of stock trading at over $300,000 per share.
Warren Buffett is largely known as “The Oracle of Omaha” because of his knack for value investing,, finding bargains in undervalued companies. While most investors have been piling into social media companies, Buffett has constantly stated that it’s too hard to determine their value, and has instead stuck with investments that he thinks will pay off 10 years down the road. He is also a noted Bitcoin skeptic.
Buffet is as well known for his good management. At age 14, he dissect his bicycle as a $35 deduction on his first income tax return because he used it for his paper route.He share much of his wealth to charity, and has said that he doesn't intend to leave his riches to his children. Over his life, he has given back more than $20 billion.
4. Bernard Arnault Family
- Owner of LVMH
- Net Worth: $72 billion
A non American Top Five, French national indigen Bernard Arnault is the chairman and CEO of LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods company. The company owns some of the biggest brands on earth including Louis Vuitton, Hennessey, Bulgari, Marc Jacobs, Dior, Sephora, and many more.
Bernard is an engineer by training, Arnault's business chops became apparent whilst working for his father's engineering company, Ferret-Saviel. He turned the company to a real estate company in the year 1976.
Arnault acquired luxury goods maker Financière Agache in 1984, eventually selling all of its holdings other than Christian Dior and Le Bon Marché department store. He became chairman of the board of LVMH in 1989. His own investments are broad, including technology concerns and yacht companies. He is Europe's richest man.
5. Mark Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg has used his finfluence towards some charitable causes, such as a solar powered drone that can deliver internet to areas deprived of the web, and contribute $100 million to public schools in Newark, New Jersey.
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