Top 10 World’s Billionaires in 2000. Gates became the first American to take the top spot of the world’s billionaires in 1995 with a net worth of $12.5 billion, and he remained there during the dot-com bubble‘s height in 1999 when his fortune peaked at $90 billion. After the dot-com bubble started to collapse in 2000, his wealth dropped to $60 billion, although he remained at the top of the list.
Here is a List of Top 10 World’s Billionaires in 2000
- Bill Gates – $60.0 billion
- Larry Ellison – $47.0 billion
- Paul Allen – $28.0 billion
- Warren Buffett – $25.6 billion
- Karl and Theo Albrecht – $20.0 billion
- Al-Waleed bin Talal – $20.0 billion
- S. Robson Walton – $20.0 billion
- Masayoshi Son – $19.4 billion
- Michael Dell – $19.1 billion
- Kenneth Thomson – $16.1 billion
