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You've heard of them all, and you've probably envied their success. Here is a list of Forbes' list the richest people in the world for the year of 2020.
#1: Jeff Bezos
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="260602aa745b3f81569db413f4f6681f"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MfrveGfxaX0?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p>Do we even have to explain this one? <a href="https://celebritypage.com/search/?q=amazon" target="_blank">Amazon </a>creator Jeff Bezos is the richest person in the world for 2020, taking the #1 spot from previous titleholder Bill Gates for the third consecutive year. In fact, Gates doesn't even come close to Bezo's $192 billion net worth. </p><p>Bezos has truly changed the game of <a href="https://celebritypage.com/search/?q=internet" target="_blank">internet</a> buying when he developed Amazon out of his Seattle garage in 1994. He's truly the definition of a self-made <a href="https://celebritypage.com/search/?q=billionaire" target="_blank">billionaire</a>. <br></p>#2: Bill Gates
<div id="09b98" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="4a5801e6b58ab1bdaa0d4772361e415b"><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version="4" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"> <div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"> </div></div><p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B551LhvAYrD/" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_top"></a></p> </div></blockquote></div><p>Billionaires can have fun too, right? ⬆️</p><p>Founder of Microsoft and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates is worth a whopping $115.6 billion. Although Gates has given away most of his stake at Microsoft, his worth was made primarily through there. </p><p>His new project, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is currently the world's largest private charitable foundation. They're currently invested in helping defeat the <a href="https://celebritypage.com/search/?q=coronavirus" target="_blank">coronavirus</a> pandemic by funding treatment and vaccines.<br></p>#3: Bernard Arnault
<div id="07b01" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="349687b19cbb30e9f6e9c2559c0181f0"><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version="4" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"> <div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"> </div></div><p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CA1QKlaKZVV/" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_top"></a></p> </div></blockquote></div><p>This billionaire has great fashion taste, as he is the head of 70 brands including both Louis Vuitton, Sephora, and Tiffany & Co. He barely misses the #2 spot, with a net worth of $115.1 billion. </p><p>He resides in <a href="https://celebritypage.com/search/?q=paris" target="_blank">Paris</a>, France with his wife and 5 children. Fun fact: 4 of his kids work in various areas of the LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton) company. I think we can all agree that their lives sound like a dream.</p>#4: Warren Buffett
<div id="992d6" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="56bf5130267dd7e0b66110f05075ef51"><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version="4" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"> <div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"> </div></div><p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CARXB23Ayh2/" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_top"></a></p> </div></blockquote></div><p>He may be 90 years old, but that doesn't stop Warren Buffett from being one of the greatest investors the world has ever seen. He has a net worth of $83 billion.</p><p>He owns more than 60 companies, including Berkshire Hathaway, Geico, and Dairy Queen. </p><p>According to <em>Forbes</em>, Buffett still lives in the same home in Omaha, Nebraska that he purchased in 1958 - sounds like a true homebody!<br></p>#5: Mark Zuckerberg
<div id="3ef4d" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="68821014bef9ef91906e623db9e88f55"><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-version="4" style=" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);"> <div style="padding:8px;"> <div style=" background:#F8F8F8; line-height:0; margin-top:40px; padding:50% 0; text-align:center; width:100%;"> <div style=" background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAAGFBMVEUiIiI9PT0eHh4gIB4hIBkcHBwcHBwcHBydr+JQAAAACHRSTlMABA4YHyQsM5jtaMwAAADfSURBVDjL7ZVBEgMhCAQBAf//42xcNbpAqakcM0ftUmFAAIBE81IqBJdS3lS6zs3bIpB9WED3YYXFPmHRfT8sgyrCP1x8uEUxLMzNWElFOYCV6mHWWwMzdPEKHlhLw7NWJqkHc4uIZphavDzA2JPzUDsBZziNae2S6owH8xPmX8G7zzgKEOPUoYHvGz1TBCxMkd3kwNVbU0gKHkx+iZILf77IofhrY1nYFnB/lQPb79drWOyJVa/DAvg9B/rLB4cC+Nqgdz/TvBbBnr6GBReqn/nRmDgaQEej7WhonozjF+Y2I/fZou/qAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC); display:block; height:44px; margin:0 auto -44px; position:relative; top:-22px; width:44px;"> </div></div><p style=" margin:8px 0 0 0; padding:0 4px;"> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/B4btG0aBh9F/" style=" color:#000; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none; word-wrap:break-word;" target="_top"></a></p> </div></blockquote></div><p>Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most iconic professionals of all time, and his creation of <a href="https://celebritypage.com/search/?q=facebook" target="_blank">Facebook</a> has turned <a href="https://celebritypage.com/search/?q=social+media" target="_blank">social media</a> into what it is today. His real time net worth is right at $100.5 billion.</p><p>Just at the age of 19, Zuckerberg created Facebook while attending Harvard. That sentence as a whole screams success.</p><p>He and his wife Priscilla are planning to spend $3 billion to end and cure disease by the year 2100, according to the <em></em>Forbes<em> </em>website. <br></p>#6: Larry Ellison
<div id="f15c2" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="5c4f4c9ca8b0357c5f21b7f16aae2592"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1302049822577369090" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">The career life and rise of billionaire Oracle cofounder and international playboy Larry Ellison, who dropped out o… https://t.co/tc8p3EYVqv</div> — StartUp Investors (@StartUp Investors)<a href="https://twitter.com/StartUp_Invest/statuses/1302049822577369090">1599267843.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Coming in at 6th place for richest people in the world is Larry Ellison, co-founder of the huge software company Oracle. Ellison's real time net worth is currently $74.7 billion. Although he retired from Oracle CEO in 2014, he is still chairman and chief technology officer.</p><p>Ellison also joined the <a href="https://celebritypage.com/search/?q=tesla" target="_blank">Tesla</a> company in 2018, and has since purchased $3 million in shares. </p>To take a little glimpse of what life is like as the 5th richest in the world, Ellison owns an entire island in Hawaii named Lanai that he bought for $300 million. How casual!#7: Armancio Ortega
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="a0015d22d13f2d9be7a6fec1c8ee61d0"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SxCbMMVubTk?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p>Both a worldwide and European icon, Armancio Ortega is the wealthiest clothing retailer on Earth - with a net worth of $64.6 billion. </p><p>He is the co-founder of Inditex, which holds the infamous Zara fashion chain. </p><p>Although an extremely famous billionaire, Ortega has once stated:</p><blockquote>"In the street, I only want to be recognized by my family, my friends, and people I work with"</blockquote>#8, #9, #10: The Walton Family
<span style="display:block;position:relative;padding-top:56.25%;" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="59e62fb9b7b0901fe14f0dd82f1d9e08"><iframe lazy-loadable="true" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-a0VssX376U?rel=0" width="100%" height="auto" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;"></iframe></span><p>Last but not least, Alice, Jim, and Rob Walton take the final 3 spots of the top 10 richest of the world.</p><p>Have you ever seen a more successful sibling trio? They are heirs of their father Sam Walton, who just so happens to be the founder of <a href="https://celebritypage.com/search/?q=walmart" target="_blank">Walmart</a>. </p><p>Alice's current net worth is $65.7 billion, Jim's is $65.5 billion and Rob's is $65.2 billion - talk about a close race!</p><p>Rob Walton is the current chairman of Walmart, taking over after his father's death in 1992.</p><p>Although Alice is tied to the infamous Walmart name, she has focused more on the arts than her father's company.</p><p>As for Jim, he is also chairman of the Walton family's Arvest Bank. <br></p>From Your Site Articles
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