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World's Richest People In The History Of Mankind | Bill Gates Is Not Even On The List, See The African Men On This List
Aug 4, 2020
Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos is the first person in modern history to accumulate a fortune of over $100 billion — and he currently has a net worth of $178 billion, Bloomberg estimates but it is still not enough make the list of the richesr men of a time.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates who has been topping the list for years Forbes World’s Billionaires is with a net worth of $113.3 billion. Gates is Another popular billionaire, Mexican business telecom magnate Carlos Slim Helu who has a net worth amounting to $51.9 billion,and another American businessman Warren Buffet with a net worth of $73.4 billion. Their net worth may seem unimaginable to ordinary people like us, but did you know that there are individuals who lived before them who had more wealth than these four of the richest billionaires in the world?
Discover the list of 10 people who are wealthier than those in the Forbes World’s Billionaires List in the next pages.
10. Cornelius Vanderbilt (Wealth: $185B)
You probably remember him from your history classes, or besides the fact that he founded Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Cornelius Vanderbilt is an American businessman who established his empire by building railroads and shipping lines.  He began his business with one boat that served as a passenger ferry before eventually expanding his steamship company. In the 1860’s Vanderbilt also started to purchase railroads starting in New York and expanding to the western states in the US. He was the one who urged the construction of the Manhattan Grand Central Depot in 1871, which was replaced by the popular Grand Central Terminal in 1913. During his time, Vanderbilt was known to accumulate an estimate of $185B. He died at age 82 in his home in Manhattan, leaving most of his wealth ($100B) to his son, William.
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