A year full of changes for billionaires: The spectacular change of house

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    After 24 years at the top of the list of the richest people in the world, Bill Gates has given this position to Amazon owner Jeff Bezos.

    After 24 years of firmly holding the No. 1 position, billionaire Bill Gates lost the title of the richest person on the planet in 2018 to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.

    Jeff Bezos's net worth is $1.60 billion, while Bill Gates's is $97 billion. Photo: Blue Origin

    The billionaire Bezos's huge fortune has increased by 75.5 billion USD compared to just one year ago.

    CEO Jeff Bezos officially became the richest person in modern history on July 16, just hours after entering Prime Day - Amazon's biggest promotion.

    This is a record asset that has never been set before, even for Bill Gates - the billionaire who has been leading the list for nearly a decade.

    In fact, after adjusting inflation, the assets of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates in 1999 are also quite close to the above figure, at about 149 billion USD.

    Bezos and Gates compete fiercely on the world's richest billionaire rankings for many years. There was a time when Amazon CEO took the lead, but then Bill Gates reset the gap.

    In July 1995, Bezos officially launched Amazon.com, and then a series of historic successes that everyone recognized.

    Amazon in its early days

    Just 3 years later, in 1998, he became a dollar billionaire and is now the richest person on the planet.

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    List of 10 world billionaires with the most dizzying assets in 2018

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    List of 10 world billionaires with the most dizzying assets in 2018

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    2018 is a year of many fluctuations for billionaires. In just one year, global economic uncertainties have soared to $511 billion in assets of these people. Here is a list of billionaires who lost the most assets in the year, according to Forbes statistics.

    2018, the year of the losses of a series of the richest billionaires in China

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    2018 is a turbulent year for many Chinese billionaires. Bloomberg has just announced that the 40 richest billionaires in the country have lost up to 45 billion USD in just the past year.