Bill
Gates has been overthrown from the rich list by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
With a net worth now standing at $91.4 billion, the Amazon founder has gone past Gates on the ultimate rich list by a $1.4 billion.
According
to Forbes,
53-year-old Bezos now ranks top of the richest person in the world list after
stocks of his company rose to 1.6% on Thursday.
And
Bezos owns about 17% of shares in the online retail company which is now worth
$500 billion.
On Wednesday night, Forbes had released a publication that Bezos
was less than $1 billion away from overthrowing Gates.
Bezos
first featured on the 400 richest Americans list in 1998, a year after Amazon
went public, with a $1.6 billion fortune.
Meanwhile,
Gates’ first inclusion in the billionaires’ list was in 1982, and has been
number one for 18 of the past 23 years.
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