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Forbes<\/b><\/i> is an American business\u00a0magazine. Published bi-weekly, it features original articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics.\u00a0Forbes<\/i> also reports on related subjects such as technology, communications, science, politics, and law. Every year FORBES presents a list of top billionaires and this year also they presented a list of 2,153 billionaires with a total net wealth of $8.7 trillion.\u00a0 This is a list of the 10 richest people in the world<\/b> based on real-time assessment of wealth and assets by Forbes.<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0Larry Page<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Net Worth: $50.8 Billion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Larry Page<\/strong> is an American computer scientist\u00a0and\u00a0Internet entrepreneur who co-founded Google with\u00a0Sergey Brin. He is the co-founder of Google, which was founded back in a garage in 1998. The page\u00a0is the\u00a0chief executive officer\u00a0of\u00a0Alphabet Inc.\u00a0(Google’s parent company). After stepping aside as Google\u00a0CEO\u00a0in August 2001, in favor of\u00a0Eric Schmidt, he re-assumed the role in April 2011. As of December 2018, Page was the 10th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $58.5 billion. The page\u00a0is the inventor of\u00a0PageRank, a well-known\u00a0search ranking algorithm\u00a0for Google.<\/sup>\u00a0Page received the\u00a0Marconi Prize\u00a0in 2004 with Brin.<\/sup><\/sup><\/p>\n

9.\u00a0Michael Bloomberg<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Net Worth: $55.5 Billion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Michael Bloomberg<\/strong> is an American businessman, politician, author, and philanthropist. Bloomberg is now 74 years old and one of the richest people in the world. Bloomberg is one of the founders, CEO, and owner of Bloomberg L.P., global financial services, software, and mass media company that bears his name, and is notable for its Bloomberg Terminal, a computer software system providing financial data widely used in the global financial services industry. Bloomberg served as the 108th Mayor of New York City, holding office for three consecutive terms, beginning his first in 2001. Michael Page was the 12th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $51 billion.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0Mark Zuckerberg<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Net Worth: $62.3 Billion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Mark Zuckerberg<\/strong> is an American\u00a0technology entrepreneur\u00a0and philanthropist. He is known for co-founding and leading\u00a0Facebook\u00a0as its chairman and\u00a0chief executive officer. Since 2010,\u00a0Time\u00a0magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people in the world as a part of its\u00a0Person of the Year award. Mark was the 5th-richest person in the world, with a net worth of $71 billion. He has recently dropped off after losing a lot of his net worth due to the Cambridge data scandal and various other issues causing the Facebook stock prices to fall.<\/p>\n

7.\u00a0Larry Ellison<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Net Worth: $62.5 Billion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Larry Ellison<\/strong> is\u00a0an American\u00a0businessman,\u00a0entrepreneur, and\u00a0philanthropist\u00a0who is a co-founder and the executive chairman and chief technology officer (CTO) of\u00a0Oracle Corporation. He was also the company\u2019s CEO until September 2014. Over the years, Oracle has become an incredibly successful tech company, now being 39 years old and employing over 136,000 people. He is a licensed pilot who has owned several aircraft. In 2009, Larry purchased the\u00a0Indian Wells Tennis Garden\u00a0tennis facility in California’s\u00a0Coachella Valley\u00a0and the\u00a0Indian Wells Masters tournament, both of which he still owns. Ellison had given $4 million overall to the PAC.\u00a0<\/sup><\/p>\n

6. Amancio Ortega<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Net Worth: $62.7 Billion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Amancio Ortega<\/strong>\u00a0is a Spanish\u00a0billionaire\u00a0businessman. He is the founder and former chairman of\u00a0Inditex\u00a0fashion group, best known for its chain of\u00a0Zara\u00a0clothing and accessories shops. As of late September 2018, Ortega had a net worth of $70 billion, making him the second-wealthiest person in Europe after\u00a0Bernard Arnault, and the sixth-wealthiest in the world. <\/sup>He is the head of the\u00a0Ortega family. Ortega is also the wealthiest retailer in the world. Ortega recently moved back up to the 5th richest man in the world, after other players on the list have dropped down slightly. However, Ortega\u2019s also lost over $11 billion from his net worth in recent months.<\/sup><\/sup><\/p>\n

5. Carlos Slim Helu<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Net Worth: $64 Billion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Carlos Slim Helu<\/strong> is a Mexican business magnate, engineer, investor, and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the\u00a0richest person in the world\u00a0by the\u00a0Forbes<\/i> business magazine. <\/sup><\/sup>He derived his fortune from his extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his\u00a0conglomerate,\u00a0Grupo Carso. He is the richest man in Mexico and\u00a0Latin America. His conglomerate includes education, health care, industrial manufacturing, transportation, real estate, media, energy, hospitality, entertainment, high-technology, retail, sports, and financial services. In recent months, Carlos Slim has lost almost $6 billion from his net worth and dropped from 7th to 5th.<\/p>\n

4. Bernard Arnault<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Net Worth: $76 Billion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Bernard Arnault<\/strong> is\u00a0a French business magnate, investor, and art collector. <\/sup><\/sup><\/sup>Arnault is the\u00a0Chairman\u00a0and Chief Executive of LVMH Mo\u00ebt Hennessy \u2013 Louis Vuitton SE, commonly referred to as\u00a0LVMH, the world’s largest luxury-goods company. He is the richest person in Europe.Ultimately, the company was formed from merging the two businesses together. Louis Vitton is the very successful luxury fashion brand, and Moet Hennessey is the merged champagne and cognac manufacturers. Bernard has been making serious movements up to this list in the past year but he is still at the same position.<\/p>\n

3. Warren Edward Buffett\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Net Worth: $82.5 Billion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Warren Edward buffet<\/strong> is an American business magnate, investor, speaker and philanthropist who serves as the chairman and CEO of\u00a0Berkshire Hathaway. He is considered one of the most successful investors in the world <\/sup><\/sup>and has a\u00a0net worth\u00a0of\u00a0US $89.9\u00a0billion as of May 4, 2019, making him the\u00a0third-wealthiest person in the world. However, despite this fact, Buffett still lives in the home he purchased back when he didn\u2019t even know what a billion dollars looked like. Buffett has been the chairman and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway since 1970, <\/sup>and he has been referred to as the “Wizard”, “Oracle”, or “Sage” of Omaha by global media outlets.<\/p>\n

2. Bill Gates<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Net Worth: $98.3 Billion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

William Henry Gates III<\/b> is an American\u00a0business magnate, investor, author, philanthropist, and humanitarian. He is best known as the principal founder of the Microsoft Corporation. <\/sup><\/sup>During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman,\u00a0CEO\u00a0and\u00a0chief software architect, while also being the largest individual\u00a0shareholder until May 2014. Gates founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen and has since become the largest PC software company worldwide. Bill Gates has gained an incredible $10 billion in additional net worth. In 1994, he was honored as the 20th\u00a0Distinguished Fellow of the British Computer Society. In 1999, Gates received the New York Institute of Technology’s President’s Medal.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0Jeff Bezos<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Net Worth: $145.3 Billion<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jeff Bezos <\/strong>is an American technology entrepreneur, investor, and\u00a0philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman, CEO, and president of\u00a0Amazon. Amazon started as a simple online bookstore in Jeff\u2019s bedroom, and the initial sales were slow. Amazon is making major moves, after recently acquiring wholefoods, launching drone shipping and a bunch of other strong ideas. In 1999, Bezos received his first major award when\u00a0Time\u00a0named him\u00a0Person of the Year.<\/sup>\u00a0In 2008, he was selected by\u00a0U.S. News & World Report as one of America’s best leaders. Bezos first became a millionaire in 1997 after raising $54\u00a0million through Amazon’s\u00a0initial public offering.<\/p>\n

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