Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce manmoth Amazon in 1994 from his garage in Seattle. He remains CEO and owns a 16% stake. His real time net worth is $139.6B. He also owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company that is developing a rocket for commercial use. His real-time net worth is $139.6B.
Bill Gates
Bill Gates along with his wife Melinda have started the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world’s largest private charitable foundation. Gates has sold or given away much of his stake in Microsoft — he owns just over 1% of shares -and has invested in stocks and other assets. As of now, Gates has donated $35.8 billion worth of Microsoft stock to the Gates Foundation. His real time net worth is $97.8B
Warren Buffet
Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors of all time. Buffett runs Berkshire Hathaway, which owns more than 60 companies, including insurer Geico, battery maker Duracell and restaurant chain Dairy Queen. He first bought stock at age 11 and first filed taxes at age 13. In 2018 he donated $3.4 billion, most to the foundation of friends Bill and Melinda Gates. His real time net worth is $83.1B.
Bernand Arnault and Family
One of the world’s ultimate influencers, Bernard Arnault oversees an empire of 70 brands including Louis Vuitton and Sephora. His luxury goods group, LVMH, posted record sales and profits in 2018, thanks in part to increased spending by Chinese customers. His real time worth is $82.8B.
Carlos Slim Helu & family
Mexico’s richest man, Carlos Slim Helu and his family control America Movil, Latin America’s biggest mobile telecom firm. He also owns stakes in Mexican construction, consumer goods, mining and real estate companies and 17% of The New York Times. His real time worth is $60B.
Amancio Ortega
Amancio Ortega is one of the richest men in Europe and the wealthiest retailer in the world. A pioneer in fast fashion, he co-founded Inditex, known for its Zara fashion chain, with his ex-wife Rosalia Mera (d. 2013) in 1975. He owns about 60% of Madrid-listed Inditex, which has 8 brands, including Massimo Dutti and Pull & Bear, and 7,500 stores around the world. Real time net worth is $68.3B.
Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison co-founded software firm Oracle in 1977 to look into the growing need for customer relationship management databases.He gave up the Oracle CEO role in 2014 but is currently the chairman of the board and chief technology officer. As part of Oracle’s push into cloud computing, it acquired cloud-software firm Netsuite for $9.3 billion in 2016. Real time worth is $63.7B.
Mark Zuckerberg
After facing another year of criticism for fake news and abuse on Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said his priority in 2019 is tackling social issues. Facebook was made public in May 2012 . Zuckerberg owns nearly 17% of the stock. Zuckerberg started Facebook at Harvard in way back in 2004 at the age of 19 for students to match names with faces in class. His real time worth is $63.8B.
Michael Bloomberg
Michael Bloomberg co-founded financial information and media company Bloomberg LP in 1981. He put in the seed funding for the company and now owns 88% of the business, which has revenues north of $9 billion. He is an active philanthropist and has donated more than $5 billion to gun control, climate change and other causes. His real time worth is $55.6B.
Larry Page
Larry Page is the CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, healthcare division Calico, smart home appliance division Nest and more. He co-founded Google in 1998 with fellow Stanford Ph.D. student Sergey Brin. With Brin, Page invented Google’s PageRank algorithm, which powers the search engine. His real time net worth is $53.5B.
Charles Koch
Charles Koch has been chairman and CEO of Koch Industries, America’s second largest private company by revenue, since 1967. The diversified company has some $110 billion in revenues from businesses including pipelines, chemicals, Dixie cups, and Stainmaster carpet. His real time net worth is $51.2B.
David Koch
David Koch shares majority control of Koch Industries, the second largest private U.S. firm in terms of revenue, with his brother Charles. Koch stepped down from his role as executive vice president in July 2018, on account of health issues. He was named director emeritus. Koch Industries, which has revenues of $110 billion, refines crude oil, produces fertilizer and makes Dixie cups and Quilted Northern toilet paper. His real time net worth is $51.2B.
Mukesh Ambani
Mukesh Ambani chairs and runs $60 billion (revenue) oil and gas giant Reliance Industries, among India’s most valuable companies. Reliance was founded by his late father Dhirubhai Ambani, a yarn trader, in 1966 as a small textile manufacturer. After his father’s death in 2002, Ambani and his younger sibling Anil split up the family empire. His real time net worth is $50.1B
Sergey Brin
Sergey Brin is the President of tech giant Alphabet, the parent firm of Google. He previously ran the secretive Google X division, which made the ill-fated Google glasses. Brin co-founded search engine firm Google with Larry Page in 1998. His real time net worth is $52.4B.
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers is the richest woman in the world and the granddaughter of L’Oreal’s founder. Bettencourt Meyers and her family own 33% of L’Oreal stock, which recorded its best sales growth in more than a decade in 2018. She has served on L’Oreal’s board since 1997 and is chairwoman of the family holding company. Her real time net worth is $50.6B.
Jim Walton
Jim Walton is the youngest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton. He runs the family’s Arvest Bank, which boasts assets of more than $16 billion. He sat on Walmart’s board for more than a decade before yielding the seat to his son, Steuart, in June 2016. His real time net worth is $45.7B.
Alice Walton
Alice Walton is the only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton. She has focused on curating art, rather than working for Walmart like her siblings, Rob and Jim. In 2011 she opened the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in her hometown, Bentonville, Arkansas. Her personal art collection is valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Her real time net worth is $45.5B.
Rob Walton
Rob Walton is the eldest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton. He ran the retailer for nearly 25 years. He then first took over as chairman upon his father’s death in 1992. He retired as chairman in June 2015 and was replaced by his son-in-law, Greg Penner. He still sits on Walmart’s board. His real time net worth is $45.4B.
Steve Ballmer
Steve Ballmer is the high-wattage former CEO of Microsoft, who led the company from 2000 to 2014. He joined Microsoft in 1980 as employee No. 30 after dropping out of Stanford’s MBA program. Ballmer looked after Microsoft at a difficult time-after the first dot.com crash and through efforts to catch Google in search and Apple in mobile phones. His real time net worth is $43B.
Ma Huateng
Ma Huateng (also known as Pony Ma) chairs Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings, which ranks among the nation’s largest businesses by market cap. Tencent’s popular social messaging app WeChat has more than 1 billion users. The group listed its music-streaming subsidiary, Tencent Music, on the New York Stock Exchange in December 2018. His real time worth is $40.5B.
