The top ten Ukrainians were not included.
Bloomberg has updated the ranking of the 500 richest people in the world. The top ten includes well-known billionaires. Who made up the top ten and one of the Ukrainians on the list.
1. Bill Gates
Status of the richest man in the world is estimated at 87.5 billion. Co-founder of Microsoft company for many years, regularly ranked first in the rich list. Gates became one of the founders of Microsoft, the largest software manufacturer in the world, in 1975. He owns about 1% of the company’s Redmond, located in Washington, DC. The rest of his condition is managed through close Cascade Investment, which controls shares in dozens of publicly traded companies including Canadian national railway and Ecolab Deere. He also co-chairs the charitable bill and Melinda gates Foundation, member of the Board of Directors of Berkshire Hathaway CEO of Cascade investment.
2. Jeff Bezos
As the co-founder of Amazon is estimated at 85.8 billion. Bezos is also the largest shareholder of the world’s largest online store. Company located in Seattle, manages retail sites Zappos and Audible, acts as a platform for third-party suppliers, and provides cloud computing services. In 2016, Amazon earned on sales of 136 billion dollars.
3. Warren Buffett
American entrepreneur, the world’s largest and one of the most famous investors has a fortune of $ 80,1 billion dollars. Buffett is the Chairman and largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway, the investment company in Omaha, Nebraska. The company owns Geico, Clayton Homes and MidAmerican Energy, as well as shares in Coca-Cola, American Express and Wells Fargo. The average return of Berkshire is 20.8%.
4. Amancio Ortega
Spanish entrepreneur owns the state at 79.6 billion dollars. He owns 59 percent of the company Inditex, the world’s largest retail seller of clothes. Arteixo is a company based in Spain, Zara is vladeltsem and eight other retail brands, operates more than 7,000 stores and has an income of 23.3 billion euros (25.7 billion US dollars) in the year through January 2017. Ortega owns a premium office and retail facilities around the world.
5. Mark Zuckerberg
As the founder and CEO of the most popular social network Facebook is 73.2 billion dollars. On the website there are about 2 billion users a month. In 2016 Zuckerberg received income in the amount of $ 28 billion.
6. Carlos Slim
Mexican businessman from 2010 to 2013 he was the richest man in the world, surpassing bill gates. Now his condition is 63 billion dollars. Slim controls America Movil, the largest mobile operator in Latin America. He has shares in the banking and mining, as well as in publicly traded companies, including Philip Morris, New York Times and Caixabank. Through the family business Grupo Carso he also has interests in the construction industry in Mexico.
7. Bernard Arnault
The French businessman is the Chairman of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest manufacturer of luxury items. It controls about half of LVMH, which in 2016 received an income of 37.6 billion euros (41.6 billion US dollars) and sold products, including leather goods Louis Vuitton, TAG Heuer and Dom Perignon champagne.
8. Larry Ellison
Allison is the founder and largest shareholder of Oracle, the database company, which had revenue of $ 38 billion in the year to 31 may 2017. He owns about a quarter of Redwood City, California, as well as the sailing team, tennis tournament Indian Wells real estate, including the island of Lanai in Hawaii. His condition at the moment is estimated at 52.7 billion dollars.
9. Larry Page
Co-founder and developer of the search engine Google (with Sergey Brin, 10th place) owns a fortune of $ 50 billion. is the CEO of Alphabet holding company Google. In 1998, he founded the Mountain View company, which processes over 3.5 billion queries a day, and that made 90,3 billion in 2016. Other divisions include the research division Google X.
10. Sergey Brin
As the co-founder of the world’s largest search engine is estimated at 48.8 billion dollars. Brin is the President of Alphabet holding company, which owns Google. Is also the co-founder of Mountain View, along with Larry page.
UKRAINE
403. Rinat Akhmetov
In the ranking of the 500 positions is only one Ukrainian citizen – the 51-year-old Rinat Akhmetov. His fortune Bloomberg estimates 4.72 billion. The richest man of Ukraine owns System Capital Management, the largest industrial conglomerate of the country. It had revenue of $ 11.4 billion in 2016 and has investments in metallurgy, mining and energy. Akhmetov also controls a 71 percent stake in closely with Metinvest, Ukraine’s largest steel producer.
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