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Forbes billionaires list 2018: Amazon's Bezos richest, Mukesh Ambani ranked 19 Bezos is "the first person to top $100 billion as number one on the Forbes list of the World's Billionaires," the magazine said. Philanthopist and Microsoft founder  Bill Gates   is second ($90 billion), investment guru   Warren Buffet  third ($84 billion),   Bernard Arnault and family   fourth ($72 billion), and Facebook founder-CEO   Mark Zuckerberg   fifth ($71 billion). US President Donald Trump is valued at $3.1 billion. Indian industry titan  Mukesh Ambani , the chairman of Reliance Industries Limited, is 19th on the list. He's valued at $40.1 billion. Ambani was ranked 20th last year. His wealth has grown by over 8 billion dollars. The other Indians (this includespeople of Indian origin) on the list include: The  Hinduja family  ($19.5 billion) Wipro Chairman  Azim Premji  ($18.8 billion) ...

It is the  Elon Musk  of corporate pay deals, a cocksure, all-or-nothing moonshot into history. Little wonder, then, that it is for none other than Elon Musk.  Tesla  Inc. granted the billionaire founder a $2.6 billion award, the largest-ever of its kind, underscoring the company's outsize ambitions and how intimately connected its future success is to Musk. If fully vested over a decade, stock options would net him as much as $55.8 billion. Along the way, nothing would be guaranteed -- zero salary or cash bonuses.  The audacious award outlines a plan for Tesla to become one of the world's biggest companies, which would make Musk perhaps the richest man on the planet in the process, but without as detailed a road map to get there as was provided with his last award. This, too, is very Musk-like -- set big-picture, moonshot end goals, particulars be damned.  "It's breathtaking both in size and in terms of performance required to earn it," Steven Hall...