Jeff Bezos

  • Net Worth: $116.9 billion1
  • Founder: Amazon (AMZN)

In 1994, Bezos founded Amazon.com in a garage in Seattle, shortly after he resigned from the hedge fund giant D.E. Shaw. In fact, he had originally pitched the idea of an online bookstore to his former boss David E. Shaw (a rumor that Shaw himself has confirmed), who wasn’t interested.

 Bill Gates

  • Net Worth: $99.9 billion3
  • Co-Founder: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)

The only Harvard dropout in the Top Five, Bill Gates’ knack for increasing wealth is staggering, even for an already wealthy guy. The Microsoft co-founder’s net worth has more than doubled since 2009.4

Bernard Arnault Family

  • Owner of LVMH
  • Net Worth: $91.6 billion8

French national Bernard Arnault is the chairman and CEO of LVMH, the world’s biggest luxury goods company. The company owns some of the biggest brands on earth including Louis Vuitton, Hennessey, Bulgari, Marc Jacobs, Dior, Sephora, and many more.

Warren Buffett

  • Net Worth: $70.5 billion9
  • Best Investor of the 20th Century

The most famous living value investor, Warren Buffet filed his first tax return in 1944 at age 14, declaring his earnings from his boyhood paper route.

He first bought shares in a textile company called Berkshire Hathaway in 1962, becoming the majority shareholder by 1965. He expanded the company to the insurance and other investments in 1967.

Larry Ellison

  • Chief Technology Office and Founder of Oracle
  • Net Worth: $62.4 billion

Larry Ellison co-founded database software company, Oracle, in 1977. He stepped down as CEO in 2014, but is still CTO and chairman of the board. He has also served on the board of Tesla since December 2018.12

Larry Ellison

 

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