In COVID-19 times, Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has kept up his top spot as world’s richest man with total assets of $113 billion, trailed by Bill Gates at $98 billion, as indicated by the most recent Forbes 34th annual world’s billionaire’s list.
Bernard Arnault, Chairman and CEO of luxury magnate LVMH (LVMHF), moved up in the list as the third-wealthiest person with $76 billion. At $67.5 billion, Warren Buffett sits still on fourth place.
Billionaires like Gates, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, Arnault, Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb and others are giving towards the worldwide health emergency happening.
CTO Larry Ellison and the founder of Oracle is at fifth position with a net worth of $59 billion.
The total combined assets of this year’s billionaires is $8 trillion, down from $8.7 trillion in 2020.
Bezos authoritatively turned into the richest man on the planet in late 2017, however, this was the principal year he bested Gates to get the No. 1 spot on Forbes’ yearly rundown of billionaires. Already, Bezos was one of the best three richest individuals — coming in No. 3 of every 2017 with a total assets of $72.8 billion.
The Amazon organizer’s total assets moved during the time because of developing Amazon share costs and key acquisitions at the organization, including the acquisition of Whole Foods for $13 billion in June 2017.
According to Morgan Stanley, Amazon could soon reach the worth $1 trillion and is all due to their great advertising and streaming business. The Amazon CEO’s income in the principal month of this current year is more than most of the way to all of a year ago’s total: $35.1 billion.
“A notable newcomer to the list is Bezos’ ex-wife, MacKenzie Bezos, who lands at No 22 on the list with a total net worth of $36 billion,” said Forbes.