Billionaire looses over $6bn in a day and is still among the top 10 richest men in the World (SEE FULL LIST)

Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos (right) lost $6 billion in one day after his company’s share price fell 11 percent but surprisingly, he still has $49.2 billion even though he slipped one spot down on Forbes’s richest list.
According to Forbes, he was worth $49.8 billion at 5pm. In the space of 30 minutes he lost $800million and ended up falling behind Carlos Slim Helu of Mexico, who is now the fourth richest person in the world with a net worth of $49.6 billion.
However, Bezos prefers to look on the bright side of things, he said:

Twenty years ago, I was driving the packages to the post office myself and hoping we might one day afford a forklift. This year, we pass 100 billion dollars in annual sales and serve 300 million customers. And still, measured by the dynamism we see everywhere in the marketplace and by the ever-expanding opportunities we see to invent on behalf of customers, it feels every bit like day one.

According to Forbes, these are the top ten richest men:

Billionaire                   Net Worth(billions)          Company/Source              Country
1. Bill Gates                       $76.2                               Microsoft                            United States
2. Amancio Ortega             $68.4                                Zara                                    Spain
3. Warren Buffett             $59.8                               Berkshire Hathaway         United States
4. Carlos Slim Helu             $49.6                               Telecoms                             Mexico
5. Jeff Bezos                    $49.2                               Amazon.com                    United States
6. Mark Zuckerberg         $47.9                               Facebook                          United States
7. Larry Ellison                $44.1                               Oracle                               United States
8. Charles Koch               $39.7                               Diversified                       United States
9. David Koch                  $39.7                               Diversified                       United States
10. Larry Page                 $37.5                               Google                              United States

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