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Bloomberg Billionaires Index
Rob LaFranco runs the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a daily ranking of the world's richest people.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos is now the world's richest person Bill Gates of Microsoft is no longer the world's richest person. A surge this morning in shares of Amazon.com Inc. means that Jeff Bezos is now worth an estimated $90.9 billion, leaving Gates behind with $90.7. That's according to Rob LaFranco, who runs the Bloomberg Billionaires Index , a daily ranking of the world's richest people.
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