CENTI-BILLIONAIRE

April 11, 2022

This month, Bloomberg Billionaires Index reported that Gautam Adani’s net worth had reached $100 billion, an accomplishment that makes the industrialist the only Indian member of an exclusive global group called the centibillionaire’s club.

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  • The club refers to people whose net wealth is $100 billion or above.

  • Although Bill Gates did have a net worth of over $100 billion in 1999 for a brief period, the term centibillionaire did not gain currency until the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, increased his wealth to $112 billion in 2017.

  • It is since then that he was referred to as the world’s first centibillionaire. After that, the numbers kept increasing.

  • Today, the club has 10 members, with Musk on top and Bezos next, followed by Arnault, Gates, and Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway. Adani is tenth on the list and $3 billion below the person above him, Oracle’s Larry Ellison — whose net wealth is $103 billion.

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