I seriously wanna meet Warren Buffett and ask him him for tips on how to be the richest man on earth. Warren Buffett estate is estimated to be $62 billion, up $10 billion from a year ago and he is Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Chairman.
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, who had been the richest person in the world for the past 13 years drops to NO.3 behind Mexico’s Carlos Slim Helú (no.2)
Gates is now worth $58 billion and is ranked third in the world. He is up $2 billion from a year ago and would have been perhaps as rich — or richer — than Buffett had Microsoft not made an unsolicited bid for Yahoo (YHOO, news, msgs) at the beginning of February. (Microsoft is the publisher of MSN Money.)
Microsoft shares fell 15% between Jan. 31, the day before the company announced its bid for the search-engine giant, and Feb. 11, the day we locked in stock prices for the 2008 World’s Billionaires list. More than half of Gates’ fortune is held outside Microsoft shares.
Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helú is the world’s second-richest person, with an estimated net worth of $60 billion. His fortune has risen $11 billion since last March.