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The founder of Amazon headed the Forbes rating richest Americans
The founder and head of the Amazon Electronic Trade Service, Jeff Bezos, headed the FORBS 400 richest Americans. Earlier, the founder of Microsoft Bill Gates held the first place in the ranking since 1994.
Among other things, Bezos was recognized as the richest man in the world in 2018. His fortune is estimated at 160 billion dollars. For the first time in all the time of the rating, the state of one of the rating participants exceeded $ 100 billion.
Previously, Bloomberg called the richest man in the world of Bezos. The agency estimated a businessman's condition of $ 150 billion.
Amazon himself became the second company after Apple with a capitalization of more than one trillion dollars.
The best result in increasing income in the new Forbes 400 rating belongs to the head of Twitter Jack Dorsie. His condition over the year increased by 186 percent and amounted to more than six billion dollars. The worst result was shown by George Soros. His fortune decreased from $ 23 billion to eight.