Forbes Global Rich list: Gates regain the richest man

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"Bill Gates, Microsoft's co-founder, has recaptured the world's richest man in 76 billion of billions of dollars," the world's richest list published in Monday, the Forbes report, announced on the March 4 morning News, Gates Sina technology. For the first time in four years, Gates overtook the big Carlos of Mexico Telecom, Carlos Slim, and became the world's richest man, according to Forbes. Gates ' latest net worth is $76 billion trillion, up from $67 billion last year. Slim's net worth shrank from 73 billion to $72 billion. It is worth mentioning that in the past 20 years, Gates has been in the world's richest man for 15 years. According to the latest Forbes statistics, the world currently has 1645 people's net worth of more than 1 billion U.S. dollars, of which 172 are female, 492 people from the United States. About 66% of these billionaires have created huge fortunes with their own efforts, 13% have inherited the previous generation's assets, and another 21% have added value on the basis of inheritance. Tech bosses are doing well in the list, with the exception of Gates, Oracle CEO Ellison (Larry Ellison), Google co-founder Larry Page and Sergey (Sergey Brin), Amazon CEO Bezos (Jeff Bezos), WhatsApp co-founder Jane Kom (The Koum) and Blaine Akdon (Brian Acton), Dropbox CEO Dru Houston (Drew Houston) and others are also on the list. The biggest increase in wealth this year is Facebookceo Mark Zuckerberg, whose personal net worth rose to $28.5 billion from last year's $15.2 billion trillion. Facebook COO Snow Lie Sandberg (Sheryl Sandberg) and vice President Jeff Ross Rothschild (Jeff Rothschild) are on the list for the first time. Gates has occupied America's richest man for the past 20 years. According to Bloomberg data released earlier this year, Gates has been slightly ahead of slim to regain the world's richest man. However, Gates ' net worth increase does not necessarily come from Microsoft shares, but through other financial means and private equity investment. Although Gates has 76 billion of dollars in assets, he donated more than 28 billion of dollars to the Bill and Melinda Melinda Foundation to address world problems such as poverty and disease. (PEI)
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