Jeff Bezos tops the Forbes Rich List 2018

Val-E · 2018-03-06T15:00:26.000Z

https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/#1071f979251c Thanks to all you FBAers out there, he has overtaken Bill Gates. Americans lead the way with a record 585 billionaires, followed by mainland China with 373. Centi-billionaire Jeff Bezos secures the list’s top spot for the first time, becoming the only person to appear in the Forbes ranks with a 12-figure fortune. Bezos’s fortune leapt more than $39 billion, the list’s biggest one-year gain ever. He moves ahead of Bill Gates, who is now number 2. It is the biggest gap between no. 1 and 2 since 2001.