Journalism of Courage
Mark Zuckerberg may be the youngest billionaire in the list but he is already the fifth richest. He overtook Jeff Bezos and Larry Ellison with net worth of over $49Bn. A large part of Zuckerberg's gains have come from increased mobile ad spends on Facebook
Bill Gates is still the richest person in Earth. Even after quitting Microsoft, Bill Gates has a net worth of over $75Bn. The Microsoft stocks have jumped significantly in the past year with efforts from new CEO Satya Nadella improving the cloud business (Source: Reuters)
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos may have lost $6Bn lately but he is still the sixth richest and has net worth of over $47Bn (Source: Reuters)
Larry Ellison is the seventh-wealthiest person in the world. He is worth over $44Bn and currently serves as executive chairman and chief technology officer of Oracle
Alphabet having overtaken Apple as the most valuable company, both Google co-founders have turned richer too. Larry Page is currently the tenth-wealthiest person and has over $37Bn net worth
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is eleventh on Forbes list with net worth of over $36Bn. He currently leads technological advancements of the company and was brainchild of Google's Project Glass
