#1.  Jeff Bezos

• Amazon’s chief Jeff Bezos is the first person to top $100 billion as number one on the Forbes list of the World’s Billionaires.
• He owns 16% of e-commerce colossus Amazon, which he founded in a garage in Seattle in 1994.
• Bezos attended Princeton and worked at a hedge fund before quitting to sell books online.
• His other passion is space travel: His aerospace company, Blue Origin, is developing a reusable rocket that Bezos says will carry passengers.
• Bezos purchased The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million.

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