Top 3 richest people in the world
- Bill Gates is the richest person in the world with a net worth
of $91 billion. He is a co-founder of Microsoft and has been involved in the
company since 1975.
- Jeff Bezos, who was born to a Cuban immigrant and American
mother, is the second richest person in the world with a net worth of $71
billion. He is CEO and founder of Amazon, one of the biggest online retailers
around today. Bezos has been listed twice on Time Magazine's "100 Most
Influential People."
- Warren Buffett, who was born in Omaha, Nebraska, has been ranked as
one of the most influential people in history by Fortune magazine. Buffett then
went on to found Berkshire Hathaway which invests globally across industries
such as energy and utilities; financial services; manufacturing; retailing;
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Richest people in the world
Bill Gates is one of the wealthiest people in the world. He has
a net worth of $75 billion. He is also the richest person in America and the
wealthiest person on earth for 17 out of the past 23 years, according to Forbes’ 2018 list of billionaires.
He started working at Microsoft as a young boy and was even present when they were still called "Micro-Soft."
Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world. This is all
thanks to his successful company, Amazon.
Bezos was born on January 12th, 1964, in Albuquerque (New Mexico). He was raised by his mother and stepfather while his biological father left him at a young age. Bezos attended Princeton University where he majored in computer science and graduated with honors. After graduating from Princeton, he got a job working for Fitel where he worked on Wall Street as a quantitative analyst and then an investment banker. In 1994 he founded Amazon after learning how to build websites from his work at Fitel.
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Warren Buffett is the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and a well-known
value investor. His net worth is $84.3 billion, which makes him the richest
person in the world.
Warren
Buffett is one of the most successful investors in history with an estimated
net worth of around $84 billion dollars. He has been accumulating his fortune
for more than 60 years and he’s still
going strong at age 87.
The
investing legend has always had an interest in money and business, but he
didn't really start to get involved until he was 11 years old when he bought
six Coca-Cola shares for himself; a stock that would later become his lifeblood
company, Berkshire Hathaway.
Since
then, Warren Buffett's investments have generated billions - Amazon, Wells Fargo,
Apple, American Express.