With how many millions Carlos Slim managed to unseat Bill Gates as the richest in the world

In 2010 Carlos Slim became the first and only Mexican to join the podium of the richest businessmen in the world (Photos: Bloomberg)

Carlos Slim Helú, of Lebanese descent, is the richest man in Mexico and has an estimated fortune of USD 55.93 billion, according to the financial magazine Forbes. In addition, he is part of the list of the richest personalities in the world, which is currently headed by Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Bernard Arnault, the French tycoon who owns the luxury conglomerate. Louis Vuitton.

However, the Mexican businessman managed to be crowned the richest man on the planet in 2010 after having ousted the computer scientist Bill Gates, co-founder of the multinational technology company Microsoft. At this time, Slim had a wealth valued at USD 53 thousand 500 million.

For his part, the fortune that the American businessman made at the beginning of the last decade was USD 53 billion, for which the Mexican tycoon managed to unseat Gates with a higher fortune of only USD 500 million. In this way and according to the figures reported by the financial magazine, since 1994 for the first time the title of the richest man in the world did not fall on a billionaire from the United States.

Carlos Slim has an estimated fortune of US 55,930 million (PHOTO: GRACIELA LÓPEZ /CUARTOSCURO.COM)

In addition, before being ousted by Carlos Slim, Bill Gates dominated the global list of the richest in the world for 13 years, from 1995 to 2007, when businessman Warren Buffet reached the first place of the famous list with a fortune valued at USD 62 billion.

A key point about the decline in Gates’ net worth, according to some analysts, was the monetary contributions that he made to his philanthropic work through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, created in 1994. Only until 2013, The computer scientist had contributed approximately USD 28 billion to the foundation, a figure higher than the wealth of Germán Larrea Mota Velasco, the second richest man in Mexico.

The Mexican magnate was ousted in 2014 after a drop in the shares of the same company, since that year a telecommunications reform was approved in Mexico that would end a monopoly forged by the businessman of Lebanese descent after the wave of privatizations that existed in the country during the 90s.

Bil Gates remained the richest man in the world for 15 years (Photo: Leon Neal / Pool via REUTERS)

Despite the bleak prognosis for the “telecommunications mogul” fortune, the 81-year-old businessman broke the record for his own wealth in 2015, the year in which his net worth reached $ 77.1 billion and ranked second in the world. ranking Billionaires.

Some media specialized in economics and finance have specified that Carlos Slim earns approximately USD 20 million daily, so his monthly salary could reach USD 600 million, thus standing out among the 10 billionaires who earn a similar figure. However, there is no official information to confirm this information.

Also, the magazine Expansion reported that, in 2010, when Slim took the podium of the richest man on the planet, his hourly earnings oscillated by more than USD 2 million, surpassing the income of Bill Gates, which at that time was USD 1.4 million, which were obtained due to its extensive investment portfolio that includes businesses ranging from companies dedicated to the development of software Y hardware, to e-commerce companies like Amazon and Alibaba, the Chinese online shopping giant.

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