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Gates is currently worth $105.8 billion (as of this writing), according to Forbes, making him the 14th richest person in the world today. However, he has vowed to give most of his money to charity ...
The 20 richest people were worth $406 billion then, a fraction of the $3 trillion they're worth today. Musk alone is worth $454 billion today, exceeding the combined wealth of the top 20 in 2000.
Billionaire Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B), along with Gates, was one of the founders of the "Giving Pledge." Buffett said that "99% of my wealth will go to ...
Meanwhile, Bill Gates in 1999 was worth nearly $150 billion in dollars adjusted to 2018. [4] The second-richest person in terms of wealth compared to contemporary GDP is a subject of dispute. While most sources attribute this status to Andrew Carnegie, others argue that it could be Bill Gates, Cornelius Vanderbilt I, John Jacob Astor IV, or ...
For the third year in a row, Bill Gates was named the richest man in the world by Forbes ' 2016 list of the world's billionaires. [20] This is the 17th time that the founder of Microsoft had claimed the top spot. Amancio Ortega rose from last year's position of number four to second. [21]
In 1987, Gates was listed as a billionaire in Forbes magazine's first ever America's richest issue; he was the world's youngest-ever self-made billionaire, with a net worth of $1.25 billion. Since then, he has been featured on The World's Billionaires list and was ranked as the richest person in 1995, 1996, 1998–2007, and 2009, maintaining ...
6. Bill Gates. Business magnate Bill Gates occupies sixth place on the world's richest people list. Gates has a net worth of $103.9 billion, according to Forbes.
The elite group worth more than $100 billion includes Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Bill Gates. The 16 members have grown almost $900 billion richer this year and are jointly worth $2.8 trillion.