Richest person in the world: Forb of 2018

Jeff Bezos unseats Bill Gates on Forbes 2018 richest billionaires list

The online retail giant's CEO is the richest man in the world, followed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett. Elly Park reports.
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Move over Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos is officially the richest man in the world. Amazon's CEO seized the top spot on Forbes’ 32nd Annual World Billionaires List .
Centi-billionaire Bezos’ fortune rose to $112 billion, the biggest single-year gain ever, allowing him to dethrone Gates, worth just $90 billion. Gates has been the richest person in the world for 18 of the past 24 years. The Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett, took the third spot on the list with a net worth of $84 billion.


Bezos' wealth has grown more than $5 billion since June 1 to beat Bill Gates, the principal founder of Microsoft Corporation, who is the second-richest man in the world with $92.9 billion.

Warren Buffet, one of the most successful investors in the world, trailed in thethird place with atotal of wealth of $82.2 billion,reported Xinhuanews agency.
Jeff Bezos officially became the richest person in the world earlier this year, and his business behemoth of online retailing, Amazon, grew into the second most valuable company in the world after Apple.

Fortune's last list release showed that Amazon ranked eighth on the 2018 list of America's largest companies, with revenues of $177.87 billion.


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