1. Jeff Bezos - 114.4 billion USD
The top of the list is Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and owner of the Washington Post. After the divorce from his wife, his assets decreased significantly. However, with a huge fortune, no one has been able to surpass the most powerful man in the technology world.
2. Bill Gates - $97 billion
Co-founder Microsoft Bill Gates is still firmly in the No. 2 position. After leaving his position as CEO of Microsoft, Bill Gates and his wife - Mrs. Melinda Gates - focused on running the world's largest private charity fund Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. According to Forbes, Bill Gates has donated 35.8 billion USD in Microsoft shares to the charitable organization " Gates Foundation".
3. Warren Buffett - 88.3 billion USD
Billionaire Warren Buffet is still third on the list. At the age of 88, he continues to run Berkshire Hathaway, an investment group that owns more than 60 companies. In 2018, the billionaire donated $3.4 billion, mostly to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
4. Mark Zuckerberg - $61 billion
After a scandalous year that caused the assets of owner Mark Zuckerberg to be depleted, now the CEO of Facebook has regained his position in the top 5 richest people. The 34-year-old billionaire currently holds 17% of Facebook's shares.
5. Larry Ellison - 58.4 billion USD
5th on the list is Larry Ellison. Larry Ellison was founded Oracle in 1977 and is today one of the world's largest technology companies. In 2018, he joined Tesla's Board of Directors after purchasing 3 million shares of the company.
6. Larry page - 53.8 billion USD
Larry Page is a co-founder of Google with Sergey Brin, a PhD student at Stanford University. He and held the position of first CEO of Google until 2001. In 2011, he returned as CEO of Google and 4 years later moved to the position of CEO of Alphabet, Google's parent company.
7. Charles Koch and David Koch - 53.5 billion USD
Charles and David Koch have such incredible fortune, partly due to their father's petroleum business. But today, they are more widely known to the public for their political activities: financial candidates, university sponsors... The two brothers each hold more than 53 billion USD, equivalent to the 7th position among the richest people on the planet.
8. Sergey Brin - 52.4 billion USD
Sergey Brin is co-founder of Google and chairman of Alphabet, Google's parent company. Although Sergey Brin's assets have increased rapidly since the beginning of the year, he has dropped in the top 10 richest people.
9. Michael Bloomberg - 51.8 billion USD
Michael Bloomberg is the founder of financial, data, software, and media company Bloomberg LP with a revenue of about 9 billion USD per year. He currently holds an 88% stake in this group. In addition to business, billionaire Bloomberg is also a politics.
