Who is the richest person in the world?
AMAZON CEO Jeff Bezos continues to be the richest person in the world and has a chance to be a trillionaire someday.
Here is the breakdown on who has the most money - and who else might make history.
Who is currently the richest person in the world?
Amazon has continued to thrive during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, and remains the richest person in the world.
His wealth has grown steadily despite his payout to his wife during his highly-publicized 2019 divorce.
He launched Amazon from his garage in 1994.
At one point he pocketed .
Are there any trillionaires in the world?
There are no , but that could change within a few years.
The Amazon founder continues to make more and more money even as the US economy struggled during the coronavirus pandemic.
The 57-year-old Bezos made the Forbes' list of 400 wealthiest Americans as far back as 1998 - four years after he launched Amazon.
The money is flowing in even though he gave up millions to his wife in a divorce settlement in 2019.
He expanded his horizons in 2021 by .
It was announced in 2021 that Gates was
He has maintained a low profile since he and Melinda n May.
The Facebook CEO has profited during the pandemic, just like Bezos.
"Moving to more remote work, I think, will give us the opportunity to advance some of the important future technology that we're working on," Zuckerberg said recently, according to .
"A lot of what we build are things that help people communicate and that give people a feeling of connection and presence even when you can't be together in person."
Zuckerberg took Facebook public in 2012 and still owns about 15 percent of the stock, according to Forbes.
He launched Facebook at Harvard in 2004 at the age of 19.