The eight richest people in the world, owning a total of almost half of the wealth on the planet, they are all men and they have made their fortune mainly in the area of technology. The majority are american, one is european and the other is mexican. Several have promised to donate everything to charity.
The net value of the eight magnates, as calculated by Forbes magazine, was quoted Monday by the humanitarian organization Oxfam in a report on economic inequality. Although many of them will not be present this week at the Economic Forum of Davos, the extraordinary wealth will be mentioned in the discussion on the inequality.
These are the tycoons:
Bill Gates: 75.000 million
His name has become synonymous with the billionaire. Gates co-founded Microsoft in the mid-1970s, making it the largest software company in the world and popularising the use of computers. In 2000 he resigned from his post of chief executive and promised to invest his fortune in philanthropic activities through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates has gradually reduced its heritage in Microsoft less than 3%, the most in a private firm. Gates is the only one on the list who regularly attends Davos.
Amancio Ortega: 67,000 million
The multi-million dollar Spanish is the richest person in Europe, opened its first clothing store Zara in 1975. Now, the chain, part of the Inditex group, has 7,000 stores around the world. The boom of its popularity is due in large part to a low-cost model comparable to the H&M. While Zara and Inditex were growing up, Ortega remained as majority shareholder with 59% of the company’s shares, which have a market value 97,000 million euros (102.000 million).
Warren Buffett: 60.800 million
it Is known as “The Oracle of Omaha” for the way in which their investment decisions are imitated by millions of people. Buffett started investing as a teenager, in the 1940s, and gradually grew his firm, Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett’s 86-year-old is known to be thrifty and prefer to invest in companies with business models proven in time new industries, such as technology. Has said that he would donate most of their wealth to philanthropy. Since 2006, he has been donating packages of shares of Berkshire to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Carlos Slim Helú: 50,000 million
The magnate mexicano made his fortune thanks to that had a great heritage in America Movil, the telecommunications multinational valued in 42,000 million. Personally, it has a share of 7% in the company while his family has 37%. Three years ago he was the richest man in the ranks, but his net worth dropped due to the slowdown of the economies in Latin america. Their interests have also been affected by the promises of the president-elect of the united States Donald Trump to annul the treaty of free trade and build a wall on the border mexicoestaodunidense. Forbes estimated that his net worth fell by 5,000 million in the four days of the choice of Trump.
Mark Zuckerberg: 44.600 million
Founded Facebook in 2004 while he was in the university to communicate with other students from Harvard. The company became popular all over the world and began trading on the stock market in 2012, making Zuckerberg, 32, multimillionaire. Has fact that Facebook is profitable, something that its competitors such as Twitter have not been so successful, and has expanded the business with acquisitions specific. Zuckerberg and his wife have promised to sell 99% of its stake in Facebook -the equivalent of more than 400 million shares, valued at about 50,000 million dollars – to support philanthropic organizations.
Larry Ellison: 43.600 million
In the 1970s, when Ellison was a programmer young man, his first major client was the CIA. The name of the project was “Oracle.” In 1977, Ellison and partners used that name for his company, which creates software that helps manage databases, and since then has become an industry standard. Recently, Ellison has focused more on storage of information by the internet. His fortune derived from the participation of 27% in Oracle, a company valued at 160,000 million.
Jeff Bezos: 45.200 million
The founder and executive director of amazon.com helped to revolutionize the retail industry becoming more and purchase online. What began as a virtual bookstore now sells practically everything. Bezos has gone beyond Amazon, where it has a participation of 17%, to experiment with other industries. He bought the Washington Post and established Blue Origin, an aerospace company that seeks to offer space travel to ordinary people.
Michael Bloomberg: 40,000 million
In 1981 he created the means of financial information which bears his name, after being fired from an investment bank. Bloomberg made it a lucrative business, especially selling terminals of information to financial services firms. Terminals with multiple screens became essential tools in the industry, incorporating market information in real-time with a news service. Bloomberg, who according to reports holds a stake of 88% in the private company, he entered politics in 2001, becoming mayor of New York city for three periods. (I)
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