4 Bernard Arnault – 72 Billion
Bernard Arnault is a French business magnate, art collector, and investor.
Arnault is the CEO and chairman of LVMH, which is the worlds largest luxury-goods company. The company was formed in 1987 under the merger of Loui Vuitton with Moet and Hennessy. This company controls around 60 subsidiaries, each of which manages a small number of very prestigious brands.
Christian Dior is the main holding company of LVMH, owning 40.9% of its shares and 59.01% of its voting rights. Arnault is the major shareholder of Dior and is CEO and chairman in both companies.
3 Warren Buffet – 84 Billion
Warren Buffett is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. Buffet serves as the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway.
Buffett is considered one of the most successful investors in the world as well as one of the wealthiest humans on the planet. Buffett has been the chairman and the largest shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway since 1970. Buffet is noted for his adherence to value investing and for his personal frugality and awareness of money.
Buffett is a philanthropist as well as a businessman and has pledged to give away 99% of his fortune to philanthropic causes. In 2009 he, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg founded The Giving Pledge. He is also very active in his contributions to political causes.
2 Bill Gates – 90 Billion
Bill Gates is one of the most well-known names in the world. Gates is an investor, author, philanthropist, humanitarian and principal founder of Microsoft Corporation.
Throughout his career at Microsoft, Gates was chairman, chief of software architect and CEO, while being the largest individual shareholder until 2014. In 1975, Gates alongside Paul Allen launched Microsoft which became the largest PC software company in the world.
Gates led the company until January 2000 but he remained chairman and chief executive software architect. In 2006, he announced that he would be transitioning to part-time work to devote his time to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which they establish in 2000.
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