The US-based Forbes magazine continues to announce the Global Billionaire List periodically. Forbes has updated the Global Billionaire List once again, when the world economy is having a hard time due to the coronavirus pandemic. The second bill in the Global Billionaires List, in which Jeff Bezos is on top, is Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft. Gates’ fortune has increased by $ 1.5 billion and reached $ 98 billion from the previous period. Bernard Arnault is third in the list after Gates. The French businessman displaced Warren Buffett in third place with his fortune of $ 76 billion. Warren Buffett, who left his third place to Arnault, is in fourth place with his fortune of 67.5 billion dollars. Coronavirus pandemic also affected billionaires According to the list announced by Forbes, the coronavirus pandemic seems to have affected billionaires along with the global economy. According to the announced list, 226 people lost their billionaire status in the first half of March. Looking at the same period of last year, we see that 58 billionaires are no longer on the list. There are 177 new billionaires in the list with a total of 2,095 billionaires. Eric Yuan, the founder and CEO of Zoom, is also among the new names on the list. Yuan’s company, which has a fortune of 5.5 billion dollars, continues to increase its share value in these days when working from home is becoming widespread due to the virus epidemic.
