The 10 richest people in the world akhmetova rizagul

6. Amancio Ortega

• Fortune: $62.7 billion
• change per year: - $7.3 billion
• source of wealth: Zara
• Age: 82 years
• Country: Spain
• Amancio Ortega is one of the richest people in Europe and the richest retailer in the world. A pioneer in fast fashion, he and his ex-wife Rosalia Mera (died 2013) founded Inditex in 1975, known for its Zara fashion chain. He owns about 60% of the shares of Inditex, registered in Madrid, which has 8 brands, including Massimo Dutti and Pull & Bear, and 7,500 stores worldwide. Ortega usually earns more than $ 400 million a year. It mainly invests its dividends in real estate in Madrid, Barcelona, London, Chicago, Miami and new York.

7. Larry Ellison

• Fortune: $62.5 billion
• change per year: +$4 billion
• source of wealth: Oracle
• Age: 74
• Country: USA
• in 1977, Larry Ellison founded the Oracle software company to meet the growing need to manage user databases. In 2014, he left the position of CEO of Oracle, but is still Chairman of the Board of Directors and chief technology officer. As part of Oracle's quest for cloud computing, it acquired cloud software company Netsuite for $ 9.3 billion in 2016. In may 2016, Ellison pledged $ 200 million to the University of southern California for a cancer treatment center. In March 2018, Ellison launched a Wellness startup called Sensei, whose first project was hydroponic farming on the Hawaiian island of Lanai. In December 2018, after buying 3 million Tesla shares at the beginning of the year, Ellison joined the Tesla Board of Directors.

8. Zuckerberg mark

• fortune: $62.3 billion
• change for the year: - $8.7 billion
• source of wealth: Facebook
• Age: 34 years
• Country: USA
• After another year of criticism for fake news and abuse in Facebook, CEO mark Zuckerberg said that in 2019, his priority is to solve social problems. In April 2018, he testified before Congress after it was revealed that Facebook shared user data with the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica. Zuckerberg founded Facebook at Harvard in 2004 at the age of 19 so that students could match names with faces. He still owns almost 17% of the shares. In December 2015, Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan promised to give away 99% of their share in Facebook during their lifetime.