New: Complete 2010 Forbes World's Billionaires Rankings Released, Bill Gates Moves to Second Place
The 2010 World's Billionaires List has just been released and a new person (aka richest person in the world) tops the list. Carlos Slim Helú of Mexico is the new number one. His net worth is estimated at $53.5 billion. What about Bill? Bill Gates is now at number two with an estimated net worth of $53.0 billion.
1. Carlos Slim Helú
2. William Gates III
3. Warren Buffett
3. Mukesh Ambani
4. Lakshmi Mittal
5. Lawrence Ellison
6. Bernard Arnault
7. Eike Batista
8. Amancio Ortega
10. Karl Albrecht
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Note: The following are abridged versions of the various lists. Access the complete list by clicking on its title.
+ Notable Drop-offs
Omid Kordestani from Google did not make the list this year. He was very close.
+ World's Richest Women
Abigail Johnson (Fidelity Investments); Jacqueline Mars (Mars Candy), Anne Cox Chambers (Cox Enterprises (Newspapers, TV, Cable).
+ Technology's Young Billionaires
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook; Sergey Brin, Google; Larry Page; Google, Jerry Yang, Yahoo; Pierre Omidyar, Founder of eBay; Peter Thiel, First Outside Investor in Facebook and Co-Founder of PayPal; Jeffrey Skoll, First President of eBay; Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com; James Balsillie, Cofounder of Research in Motion (BlackBerry).
+ Technology's Richest Billionaires
Bill Gates, Microsoft; Sergey Brin, Google; Larry Page, Google; Steve Ballmer, Microsoft; Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com;
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