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Th e World’ s billiona ir e s

united states Richard Kayne ★ Yvon Chouinard  George Marcus 
$1.1 BIL #1999 iNVestmeNts $1 BIL #2124 pataGoNia $1 BIL #2124 real estate
Donald Foss ★ Thomas Tull  Isaac Larian  Henry Davis ★ Lowell Milken 
$1.2 BIL #1867 auto loaNs $1.2 BIL #1867 moVies $1.1 BIL #1999 toys $1 BIL #2124 Beef proCessiNG $1 BIL #2124 iNVestmeNts
Robert Friedland  Alfred West Jr.  Frank Laukien ★ David Hall ★ Carolyn Rafaelian ★
$1.2 BIL #1867 miNiNG $1.2 BIL #1867 $1.1 BIL #1999 $1 BIL #2124 $1 BIL #2124 JeWelry
moNey maNaGemeNt sCieNtifiC equipmeNt automotiVe teChNoloGy
Donald Friese  Alice Schwartz ★
$1.2 BIL #1867 maNufaCturiNG William Ackman  Nancy Lerner  David Kabiller  $1 BIL #2124 BioteCh
$1.1 BIL #1999 hedGe fuNds $1.1 BIL #1999 BaNkiNG, $1 BIL #2124
Ryan Graves  Credit Cards iNVestmeNt maNaGemeNt Martin Selig 
$1.2 BIL #1867 uBer J. Hyatt Brown ★ $1 BIL #2124 real estate
$1.1 BIL #1999 iNsuraNCe Norma Lerner  Theodore Leonsis ★
B. Wayne Hughes Jr.  $1.1 BIL #1999 BaNkiNG, $1 BIL #2124 sports teams Evan Sharp 
$1.2 BIL #1867 Bharat Desai  $1 BIL #2124 piNterest
storaGe faCilities $1.1 BIL #1999 it CoNsultiNG Credit Cards John Liew 
Randolph Lerner  $1 BIL #2124 Axel Stawski 
Thomas James  Joseph Edelman ★ $1 BIL #2124 real estate
$1.2 BIL #1867 fiNaNCe $1.1 BIL #1999 hedGe fuNds $1.1 BIL #1999 BaNkiNG, iNVestmeNt maNaGemeNt
Credit Cards Robert Toll ★
Gail Miller  Paul Fireman  Duncan MacMillan ★ $1 BIL #2124 home BuildiNG
$1.2 BIL #1867 utah Jazz, $1.1 BIL #1999 reeBok William Macaulay  $1 BIL #2124 BloomBerG lp
$1.1 BIL #1999
Car dealers Sandy Weill 
J. Christopher Flowers  eNerGy iNVestmeNts $1 BIL #2124 CitiGroup
Michael Price  $1.1 BIL #1999 iNVestmeNts John Martin 
$1.2 BIL #1867 iNVestmeNts
Drew Houston  $1.1 BIL #1999
Lynsi Snyder ★ $1.1 BIL #1999 dropBox pharmaCeutiCals methodology
$1.2 BIL #1867 iN-N-out BurGer
Andrea Reimann-Ciardelli 
$1.1 BIL #1999
CoNsumer Goods
the Forbes World’s Billionaires list is a snapshot of wealth using stock
venezuela Chris Sacca  prices and exchange rates from february 9. some people will be-
$1.1 BIL #1999
VeNture Capital come richer or poorer within weeks—even days—of publication. for
Gdp: $36.5 BIL Michael Steinhardt  example, Jeff Bezos’ net worth climbed more than $12 billion in the
populatioN: 32 MIL $1.1 BIL #1999 fiNaNCe two weeks between our measuring date for stock prices and when
BillioNaires: 2 Laurie Tisch ★ this issue went to press. We list individuals rather than multigener-
total Net Worth: eXpatRIate $1.1 BIL #1999 iNsuraNCe, ational families who share large fortunes, though we include wealth
$5.5 BIL (+$400 MIL VS. 2017) 1 Ny GiaNts belonging to a billionaire’s spouse and children if that person is the
founder of the fortune. in some cases we list siblings or couples to-
Steven Tisch ★ gether if the ownership breakdown among them isn’t clear, but here
$1.1 BIL #1999 iNsuraNCe,
Ny GiaNts an estimated net worth of $1 billion per person is needed to make the
cut. We value a variety of assets, including private companies, real
James Truchard ★
caRacas $1.1 BIL #1999 softWare estate, art, yachts and more. We don’t pretend to know each billion-
1 aire’s private balance sheet (though some provide it). When docu-
Sara Blakely  mentation isn’t supplied or available, we discount fortunes. for daily
$1 BIL #2124 spaNx
updates of net worths, go to forbes.com/real-time-billionaires.
zimbabwe
Gdp: $17.1 BIL
populatioN: 17 MIL eXpatRIate
Juan Carlos Escotet  1
$4.4 BIL #480 BaNkiNG BillioNaires: 1 (+1 VS. 2017)
total Net Worth:
Gustavo Cisneros & family  $1.4 BIL (+$1.4 BIL VS. 2017)
$1.1 BIL #1999 media
Strive Masiyiwa ★
vietnam $1.4 BIL #1650 teleCom
Gdp: $223.9 BIL
populatioN: 96 MIL hanoI
2
BillioNaires: 4 (+2 VS. 2017)
total Net Worth:
$10.5 BIL (+$6.9 BIL VS. 2017)
strive masiyiwa
newcomer: zimbabwe’s first-ever billionaire,
masiyiwa studied engineering in the u.k. and
then went home and worked at zimbabwe
posts & telecommunications Corp. he quit to
Pham Nhat Vuong  start his own firm but spent five years fight-
$4.3 BIL #499 diVersified
ing to obtain a license to operate a telephone
Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao  company. the supreme Court of zimbabwe
$3.1 BIL #766 airliNes finally ruled in his favor. he founded econet
Tran Ba Duong & family ★ Wireless zimbabwe in 1998. today the com-
$1.8 BIL #1339 Cars ho chI mInh pany is the second biggest, by market cap, on
cIty
Tran Dinh Long ★ 2 the zimbabwe stock exchange. he left zim-
$1.3 BIL #1756 steel, babwe in 2000 and lives in london.
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