Michael Jordan joins billionaires' club

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  1. blakpacman

    blakpacman

  2. nice!
     
  3. S2007S

    S2007S

    Big facts about the list!

    All told, the world's 1,826 billionaires have a combined net worth of $7.05 trillion, up from $6.4 trillion in 2014.

    Topping the list are the usual suspects: Microsoft's Bill Gates ($79.2 billion); cellphone magnate Carlos Slim ($77.1 billion) and value investor Warren Buffett ($72.7 billion). All three saw their net worth increase last year.

    As in years past, Silicon Valley is the place to be for young billionaires.

    Among the 46 billionaires under 40 years old were executives at Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat.

    The youngest billionaire on the list is the 24-year-old Snapchat co-founder Evan Spiegel.

    Elizabeth Holmes, at 31, is America's youngest self-made female billionaire and is among 197 women on the Forbes list. Holmes dropped out of Stanford at 19 to found Theranos, a company that's developing new blood testing technology.

    Wal-Mart (WMT) heiress Christy Walton was the richest female on the list, with a net worth of $41.7 billion.

    The United States was home to the most billionaires, thanks to the tech boom and a strong U.S. dollar. There 536 American billionaires, with 131 of them in California.

    China has the second highest number of billionaires, followed by Germany and India.

    Russia's economic woes have taken a toll on the nation's billionaires. The number of Russian billionaires on the list fell to 28, down from 111 in 2014.
     
  4. Visaria

    Visaria

     
  5. Micheal Jordan is very good with his money management, if all NBA and NFL Stars were as good as watching, no guarding, their money like Mr. Jordan all would be so rich!