Mark Perry's visualization depicts the world’s top ten billionaires in every year from 2000 to 2021 based on data from Forbes’ annual lists of the World’s Billionaires and via Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires rankings for 2021. The wealth and value generated for society by successful entrepreneurial billionaires dwarf their personal fortunes, which were only made possible because they made the lives of millions of consumers, many of them living in low-income households, better off. See more here:

Jeff Bezos, who owns 11.1% of Amazon, is now worth a record-breaking $182.6 billion — the highest net worth Forbes has recorded in nearly four decades of tracking billionaires. http://on.forbes.com/6184GTfjn | Forbes

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is the richest man in modern history with a net worth of more than $150 billion, according to Forbes. He's richer than Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Google co-founder Larry Page combined. https://cnn.it/2LeCD6r | CNN International