Forbes America named names most successful billionaires, for whom 2015 was remembered not by sanctions and import substitution, but by the growth in the share price of their companies.
Here are five favorites of business fortune who have managed to multiply their fortune by several billion dollars.
5. Michael Bloomberg
The top 5 most fortunate rich people of 2015 are opened by the owner of TV channels, radio stations, and steam…. no, Bloomberg has no steamers, but there is a worldwide computerized financial news network. And all together they brought humble billionaire 5.5 billion dollars. Less than that of other participants in the rating, but also more than enough to mark the year of the Red Monkey so that there is something to remember the remaining 364 days.
4.Sergey Brin
Thanks to this Internet entrepreneur and scientist, as well as his friend Larry Page, we can send each other "google" to find the answer to any question of interest. The Google search engine has become as much a part of life for many people as breakfast. In 2015, Brin became richer by $ 8.9 billion. He now controls Google X, a lab created to flood the world with fantastic developments such as self-driving cars, Google Glass and a trained neural network.
3. Larry Page
In 2015, the creators of Google Inc. announced a change in the structure of their business. They created the Alphabet holding company, of which Paige became the CEO. The new structure includes several companies, including Google, and its Google X laboratory, which is engaged in unusual projects such as drones for delivering goods. The news of the new project was well received by investors, and in August, Google shares rose 4.3%. And in just 2015, Page earned $ 9.2 billion and became one of the most influential people of 2015.
2. Mark Zuckerberg
In 2005, Facebook celebrated its first "birthday". Then the company was still called TheFacebook and Zuckerberg offered it to the popular social network MySpace for $ 75 million. MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe turned down the deal. In 2006, Zuckerberg again proposed to MySpace, adding a zero to the sum. And again he was refused. And in 2015, the creator of the "facebook" earned 11.2 million dollars and could have bought the former main competitor himself.
1. Jeff Bezos
It has been a very good year for Amazon. So lucky that the head of this company topped the list of the most successful dollar billionaires. According to Forbes, during the year Bezos managed to earn $ 29.5 billion and entered the top 5 richest people in the world (total fortune - $ 58.4 billion), and top 3 richest IT businessmen planets.
For comparison:
- The GDP of Burkina Faso, an African country with a population of about 18.4 million, was $ 29.3 billion in 2014, according to the IMF.
- The volume of GDP of Zimbabwe, which is home to 13 million inhabitants - $ 27.1 billion (for 2014).
What is it Zimbabwe, the head of Amazon this year earned enough to buy US presidential candidate Donald Trump 7 times, if Forbes correctly calculated the net worth of the outrageous businessman ($ 4.1 billion). And launch it into space, as Bezos suggested on his Twitter blog.