Amazon CEO becomes world's richest man
According to Forbes World’s Billionaires list, Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, is now the world’s richest man. The list also stated that the principal founder of Microsoft Corporation is the second richest man.
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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has become the richest manin the world with a net wealth of USD 141.9 billion, the Forbes World'sBillionaires list showed on Monday.
Bezos' wealth has grown more than USD 5 billion since June 1to beat Bill Gates, the principal founder of Microsoft Corporation, who is thesecond-richest man in the world with USD 92.9 billion.
Warren Buffet, one of the most successful investors in the world,trailed in the third place with a total of wealth of USD 82.2 billion.
Bezos officially became the richest person in the worldearlier this year, and his business behemoth of online retailing, Amazon, grewinto the second most valuable company in the world after Apple.
Fortune's last list release showed that Amazon ranked eighthon the 2018 list of America's largest companies, with revenues of USD 177.87billion.
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