Amazon's Jeff Bezos is the wealthiest person in the world

[Legend]

It jumps back and forth a lot depending on which numbers are used but at the rate he's increasing his wealth, he'll be staying on top for the foreseeable future. Will also probably be the first person to pass $100 billion in wealth.

[the-pi-guy]

Forbes Welcome

Bill Gates had 100b at one point.  The super rich bounce around a lot.  He passed Bill Gates a while ago, and Gates came back a month later.  

[Legend]

Forbes Welcome

Bill Gates had 100b at one point.  The super rich bounce around a lot.  He passed Bill Gates a while ago, and Gates came back a month later.  

Yeah forbes had him pass Gates during a surge in July.

He was only around $90 billion ignoring that surge. It's crazy how much the dot com bubble hurt all of them.

[the-pi-guy]

Broke $100b.
First person since Bill Gates in 1999