Jeffbezos on Monday became the richest person in modern history with a net worth of $150 billion. According to the Bloomberg billionaires index, the Amazon Inc. founder Trumped Microsoft Corporation co-founder bill gates, the world's second richest person at $95.3 billionaire and chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire hathway Inc. warren buffett to lead the top of the pack, With a worth of $83 billion.
Bezos, 54 has also topped gates in inflation - adjusted terms.The 100 billion dollars mark that gate hit briefly in 1999 at the height of the dot-com boom would be worth about $149 billion in today's dollars. That makes the amazon chief richer than anyone else on earth since at least 1982, when forbes published its inaugural wealth ranking, according to a Bloomberg article.