1. Bill Gates – $75 billion
He is not only the richest man of today, but is also the owner of the world’s biggest private charity institution, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Apart from his investments in Microsoft, which he accounts most of his fortune despite regularly sharing his shares, Bill Gates also has investments in Canadian National Railway and Autonation. He also invests in helping the world develop cure and elimination of polio, malaria attack, etc.
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Hopefully you enjoyed this look at Mansa Musa vs. Genghis Khan: who is the richest man in history? The world has so many resources and have had many generations with equal chances of experiencing them. While most of the today’s richest people can thank the modern technology of how they were able to amass such fortunes, the richer men of history has the old, more pristine beauty of the natural world for which to be thankful.
