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What comes after a Trillion ?
And who will become the first Trillionaire ?
Not many years ago, (before the IT revolution) a millionaire was a man of substance. There weren’t too many about. They were exclusive and sometimes mysterious. Then suddenly the financial world exploded, and computer-age entrepreneurs burst on the scene.
There are now 56 million millionaires across the world. You fall over them everywhere you go.
Following the onwards and upwards trend then, we now have (according to Forbes January 2022) 2,755 billionaires, a billionaire having 9 zeroes after the 1, as opposed to a millionaire, who only has 6. They make millionaires look quite ordinary.
The list of top ranking billionaires contains several household names, but a few you may not be completely familiar with.
1. Elon Musk (Tesla)
2. Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
3. Bernard Arnault (luxury goods inc Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton etc.)
4. Bill Gates (Microsoft)
5. Larry Page (Alphabet /Google)
6. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook /Meta)
7. Sergey Brin (Alphabet /Google)
8. Warren Buffett (Berkshire Hathaway)
