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    THE TOP 10 BILLIONAIRES 2018

    #1 Jeff Bezos

    CEO and Founder, Amazon.com
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    REAL TIME NET WORTH
    $149B
    as of 7/20/18
    2018 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
    $112B
    as of 3/6/18
    • 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.
    • He owns 16% of e-commerce colossus Amazon, which he founded in a garage in Seattle in 1994.
    • Bezos attended Princeton and worked at a hedge fund before quitting to sell books online.
    • His other passion is space travel: His aerospace company, Blue Origin, is developing a reusable rocket that Bezos says will carry passengers.
    • Bezos purchased The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million.

    #2 Bill Gates

    Cofounder, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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    • With his wife Melinda, Bill Gates chairs the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable foundation.
    • The foundation works to save lives and improve global health, and is working with Rotary International to eliminate polio.
    • 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.
    • In late 2016, Gates announced the launch of a $1 billion Breakthrough Energy investment fund with about 20 other people.
    • #3 Warren Buffett

      CEO, Berkshire Hathaway
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      REAL TIME NET WORTH
      $82.2B
      as of 7/20/18
      2018 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
      $84B
      as of 3/6/18
      • Known as the "Oracle of Omaha," Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors of all time.
      • He runs Berkshire Hathaway, which owns more than 60 companies, including insurer Geico, battery maker Duracell and restaurant chain Dairy Queen.
      • The son of a U.S. congressman, he first bought stock at age 11 and first filed taxes at age 13.
      • He has committed to giving more than 99% of his fortune to charity. So far he has given away nearly $32 billion, much of it to the Gates Foundation.
      • With friend Bill Gates he launched The Giving Pledge in 2010, asking billionaires to donate half their wealth to charitable causes.

        #4 Bernard Arnault & family

        Chairman and CEO, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton
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        REAL TIME NET WORTH
        $81.1B
        as of 7/20/18
        2018 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
        $72B
        as of 3/6/18One of the world's ultimate taste-makers, Bernard Arnault oversees an empire of 70 brands including Louis Vuitton and Sephora.
        • One of the world's ultimate taste-makers, Bernard Arnault oversees an empire of 70 brands including Louis Vuitton and Sephora
        • 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.

          #5 Mark Zuckerberg

          Cofounder, Chairman and CEO, Facebook
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          REAL TIME NET WORTH
          $78.9B
          as of 7/20/18
          2018 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
          $71B
          as of 3/6/18
          • Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's CEO, has seen his net worth soar as the social network's stock price has skyrocketed.
          • In April 2018, he testified before Congress after it was revealed that Facebook shared users' data with political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.
          • Zuckerberg started Facebook at Harvard in 2004 at the age of 19 for students to match names with faces in class.
          • He took Facebook public in May 2012 and still owns nearly 17% of the stock.
          • Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have pledged to give away 99% of their Facebook stake over their lifetimes.

            #6 Amancio Ortega

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            REAL TIME NET WORTH
            $73.3B
            as of 7/20/18
            2018 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
            $70B
            as of 3/6/18
            • 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.
            • 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.

              #7 Carlos Slim Helu & family

              Honorary Chairman, America Movil SAB de CV (ADR)
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              REAL TIME NET WORTH
              $64.9B
              as of 7/20/18
              2018 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
              $67.1B
              as of 3/6/18
              • Mexico's richest man, Carlos Slim Helu and his family control America Movil, Latin America's biggest mobile telecom firm.
              • With foreign telecom partners, Slim bought a stake in Telmex, Mexico's only phone company, in 1990. Telmex is now part of America Movil.
              • He also owns stakes in Mexican construction, consumer goods, mining and real estate companies and 17% of The New York Times.
              • His son-in-law Fernando Romero designed the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, home to Slim's extensive, eclectic art collection.
              • #8 Charles Koch

                CEO, Koch Industries
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                REAL TIME NET WORTH
                $51.2B
                as of 7/20/18
                2018 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
                $60B
                as of 3/6/18
                • 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.
                • His father, Fred Koch, started the business in 1940 and improved a method of refining heavy oil into gasoline.
                • The Kansas native owns a 42% stake in the firm, as does his brother, David; they bought their two other brothers' shares in 1983.
                • Koch has funded a number of think tanks, including the libertarian Cato Institute, the Heritage Foundation and the American Enterprise Institute.

                  #8 David Koch

                  Executive Vice President, Koch Industries
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                  REAL TIME NET WORTH
                  $51.2B
                  as of 7/20/18
                  2018 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
                  $60B
                  as of 3/6/18

                  • David Koch shares majority control of Koch Industries, U.S's second largest private firm, with his brother Charles.
                  • The Kansas native lives in New York City, and oversees Koch's chemical technology group.
                  • Koch Industries, which has revenues of $100 billion, operates pipelines, produces fertilizer and makes Dixie cups and Quilted Northern toilet paper.
                  • 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.

                    #10 Larry Ellison

                    CTO and Founder, Oracle
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                    REAL TIME NET WORTH
                    $59.2B
                    as of 7/20/18
                    2018 BILLIONAIRES NET WORTH
                    $58.5B
                    as of 3/6/18
                    • 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.
                    • As part of Oracle's push into cloud computing, it acquired cloud-software firm Netsuite for $9.3 billion in 2016.
                    • Oracle moved into hardware with its 2010 acquisition of Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion.
                    • In 2016, Ellison pledged to give $200 million to the University of Southern California for a cancer treatment center.

                •                         source:thetoper10.blogspot.com

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