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The wealth of the 400 richest Americans has a net worth of $ 2.4 trillion this year.
Forbes names the richest people in the United States.
The 400 richest people in the United States are richer than ever. Their combined fortune is estimated at a record $ 2.4 trillion. On average, each of them has a capital of $ 6 billion. The list included only those rich, whose capital is at least $ 1.7 billion. 153 American billionaires weren't lucky enough to get into an exclusive club. More than 10% of the billionaires on the list at one time immigrated to the United States from 21 countries, including Israel, India, Hungary, Taiwan and Russia.
This is what the top ten of the Forbes 400 list looks like:
First place
Bill Gates' stake in Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975, is 13% of his capital. Gates also owns shares in Deer & Co., Canadian National Railway, AutoNation and several other companies.
Gates' asset value reached 0.5% of US GDP. The entrepreneur is a co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Second place
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has grown by $ 20 billion in wealth over the past year, a record for any entrepreneur on the Forbes 400 list. Bezos has raised his capital largely through the booming cloud project Amazon Web Services. At a meeting of Amazon shareholders, the entrepreneur announced that the company was the first in the world to achieve $ 100 billion in annual sales. The indicator was recorded in 2015.
Third place
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has been ranked second on the Forbes 400 for 15 years. In September 2016, he was overtaken by the head of Amazon, despite the fact that Buffett's capital increased by $ 3.5 billion.
Fourth place
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have pledged to give $ 3 billion of their fortune over the next ten years to cure and prevent all diseases of humanity by the end of this century. Earlier, the couple decided to donate 99% of their Facebook shares - which is about $ 45 billion - to charity, in particular, to "human potential". The couple's philanthropic initiatives followed shortly after Facebook stock soared 40%.
Fifth place
Oracle software company CEO Larry Ellison dropped out of the Forbes Top 3 400 for the first time since 2007. Over the past year, his fortune has grown by $ 1.8 billion. Now Ellison's company is developing its own cloud project, which will become a worthy competitor to a similar project Amazon - Web Services.
Sixth place
Michael Bloomberg is the former 108th mayor of New York and founder of Bloomberg LP, a company that collects, analyzes and sells information about the state of financial markets. The Bloomberg Empire consists of a television station, radio channels, and the world famous computerized financial news network.
Seventh and eighth place
Together with his older brother Charles David Koch, he co-owns Koch Industries, the second largest privately-owned company in the United States. Their father, Fred Koch, started the family business in 1940. Charles took over as CEO after his father's death in 1967 and expanded into a conglomerate with $ 100 billion in sales.
Ninth place
Larry Page, together with Sergey Brin, is a search engine developer and co-founder of Google. Now Page is the CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google and a number of other companies - Nest, Google Fiber and Verily. In 2015, the combined revenue of these companies was $ 448 million. For comparison, Google's revenue reaches $ 74.5 billion.
Tenth place
The son of two academicians, Sergei Brin, moved to the United States from Russia at the age of 6 in the wake of anti-Semitic sentiments against his family. Brin is now the richest immigrant in the United States. After working on augmented reality technology for several years at Google, Brin is now president of Alphabet, Google's parent company.
Based on materials from forbes.com
Forbes names the richest people in the United States.
The 400 richest people in the United States are richer than ever. Their combined fortune is estimated at a record $ 2.4 trillion. On average, each of them has a capital of $ 6 billion. The list included only those rich, whose capital is at least $ 1.7 billion. 153 American billionaires weren't lucky enough to get into an exclusive club. More than 10% of the billionaires on the list at one time immigrated to the United States from 21 countries, including Israel, India, Hungary, Taiwan and Russia.
This is what the top ten of the Forbes 400 list looks like:
First place
Bill Gates' stake in Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975, is 13% of his capital. Gates also owns shares in Deer & Co., Canadian National Railway, AutoNation and several other companies.
Gates' asset value reached 0.5% of US GDP. The entrepreneur is a co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Second place
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has grown by $ 20 billion in wealth over the past year, a record for any entrepreneur on the Forbes 400 list. Bezos has raised his capital largely through the booming cloud project Amazon Web Services. At a meeting of Amazon shareholders, the entrepreneur announced that the company was the first in the world to achieve $ 100 billion in annual sales. The indicator was recorded in 2015.
Third place
Warren Buffett, chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, has been ranked second on the Forbes 400 for 15 years. In September 2016, he was overtaken by the head of Amazon, despite the fact that Buffett's capital increased by $ 3.5 billion.
Fourth place
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have pledged to give $ 3 billion of their fortune over the next ten years to cure and prevent all diseases of humanity by the end of this century. Earlier, the couple decided to donate 99% of their Facebook shares - which is about $ 45 billion - to charity, in particular, to "human potential". The couple's philanthropic initiatives followed shortly after Facebook stock soared 40%.
Fifth place
Oracle software company CEO Larry Ellison dropped out of the Forbes Top 3 400 for the first time since 2007. Over the past year, his fortune has grown by $ 1.8 billion. Now Ellison's company is developing its own cloud project, which will become a worthy competitor to a similar project Amazon - Web Services.
Sixth place
Michael Bloomberg is the former 108th mayor of New York and founder of Bloomberg LP, a company that collects, analyzes and sells information about the state of financial markets. The Bloomberg Empire consists of a television station, radio channels, and the world famous computerized financial news network.
Seventh and eighth place
Together with his older brother Charles David Koch, he co-owns Koch Industries, the second largest privately-owned company in the United States. Their father, Fred Koch, started the family business in 1940. Charles took over as CEO after his father's death in 1967 and expanded into a conglomerate with $ 100 billion in sales.
Ninth place
Larry Page, together with Sergey Brin, is a search engine developer and co-founder of Google. Now Page is the CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google and a number of other companies - Nest, Google Fiber and Verily. In 2015, the combined revenue of these companies was $ 448 million. For comparison, Google's revenue reaches $ 74.5 billion.
Tenth place
The son of two academicians, Sergei Brin, moved to the United States from Russia at the age of 6 in the wake of anti-Semitic sentiments against his family. Brin is now the richest immigrant in the United States. After working on augmented reality technology for several years at Google, Brin is now president of Alphabet, Google's parent company.
Based on materials from forbes.com
