Amazon founder tops the list of the world’s richest people

It shattered the annual list of billionaires of the world, published by the magazine “Forbes“, A record this year, after it included 2755 billionaires, and it came at the top of the founder of a company.”AmazonJeff Bessus, for the fourth year in a row.

The ranks of the wealthy expanded, after a year in which the Coronavirus pandemic overturned world economies and threatened livelihoods around the world.

Forbes said billionaires’ fortunes this year totaled $ 13.1 trillion, up from $ 8 trillion last year.

“The very rich have gotten so much richer,” Randall Lynn, Forbes’ chief content officer, said in an interview with Reuters.

Breaks Elon MuskTesla CEO, to second place on the list, down from 31st last year.

Bernard Arnault, CEO of luxury goods company LVMH, founder of Microsoft Bill Gates, and CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, completed the top five places for the world’s richest billionaires.

Investor and businessman, Warren Buffett, emerged in the top five for the first time in more than two decades, as technology executives dominated Forbes’ rankings.

This year’s list includes 493 newcomers, including Whitney Wolf-Heard, chief executive of dating app Bumble.