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Hungarian-born businessman among the richest Americans!
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The Forbes 400 was recently published, which is the Definitive Ranking of The Wealthiest Americans. The Forbes 400 richest Americans are worth a record-breaking $2.96 trillion. 31st on this list is the CEO of Interactive Brokers, Tamás Péterffy, who actually has Hungarian origins.
Amazon-founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is the No. 1 richest in the U.S (for the second year in a row) with $114 billion, and Bill Gates came in at No. 2 with $106 billion, Forbes reports. The top 10 of the Forbes 400 list are:
- Jeff Bezos, 114 billion USD
- Bill Gates, 106 billion USD
- Warren Buffet, 80.8 billion USD
- Mark Zuckerberg 69.6 billion USD
- Larry Ellison, 65 billion USD
- Larry Page, 55.5 billion USD
- Sergey Brin, 53.5 billion USD
- Michael Bloomberg, 53.4 billion USD
- Steve Ballmer, 51.7 billion USD
- Jim Walton, 51.6 billion USD
The 31st wealthiest American is Hungarian-born Tamás Péterffy with 17.5 billion USD.
Tamás Péterffy is a digital trading pioneer, the CEO of Interactive Brokers, which markets its specialised trading platform to sophisticated investors. He founded Interactive Brokers in 1993.