The founder of the Amazon e-commerce company, Jeff Bezos, is still the richest person in the world by the end of 2019. In fact, he just lost an estimated US $ 10 billion worth of assets in one year.
Amazon's founders topped the last day of the 2019 Bloomberg Billionaire Index with an estimated net worth of US $ 115 billion. His position is not far from Microsoft's founder, Bill Gates, whose value is estimated at US $ 113 billion.
In addition to Bezos and Gates, the king of French business, Bernard Arnault became another billionaire whose wealth reached more than US $ 100 billion.
Previously, Bezos is expected to lose the position of the richest person in the world version of the index. This is after Bezos shared his wealth with his ex-wife Mackenzie Bezos in their divorce last year.
As part of the divorce settlement, Bezos gave 4% of his shares in the company. The amount is equivalent to US $ 37 billion. This makes Mackenzie the 25th richest person in the world.
Earlier in November, Bezos was out of the position of the world's richest man. He was shifted by Bill Gates. That happened after Microsoft's shares jumped 48%, while Amazon's profits fell nearly 28% from the previous year at the same time. But that only lasted a short time.
In addition to the three of them, snapper investor Warren Buffett and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are also still the world's richest people. They are in the fourth and fifth positions, where Zuckerberg's wealth increased by around US $ 26.3 billion last year.
Meanwhile, Julia Flesher Koch, widow of conservative businessman David Koch, was the only woman in the top 10 on the list. His wealth reached US $ 62 billion.