All figures accurate as of today and subject to real-time market fluctuations. · new york (bloomberg) - jeff bezos is about to relinquish the title of world s richest person to bill gates , as amazon. com stock tumbled in late trading on thursday (oct 24). · amazon founder and ceo jeff bezos has lost the title as the world s richest man, paving the way for tenacious bill gates to grab the top spot after amazons lacklustre q3 results. · bill gate , microsoft founder, fell off the top 10 rich list: · move over, bill gates. His net worth fell sharply primarily because of a recalculation of his total assets and charitable contributions, as tracked by. · who are the top 10 richest people in the world to start 2026? · the wealth held by the world’s top 20 billionaires—about $3. 8 trillion—is greater than the gdp of most countries on earth. What’s more, these fortunes have grown at an astonishing rate since 2020. Amazon’s jeff bezos unseated the microsoft giant for the top spot for the sixth time since gates ’s 1995 appearance. From elon musk to bernard arnault, we break down the rich list. Back then, jeff bezos was the richest person in the world , with a net worth of $145 billion.
