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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RICHEST OF ALL TIMES AND THE RICHEST OF TODAY

NAMES OF RICHEST OF ALL TIMES
NET
WORTH            
$
COMPANY
NAMES OF RICHEST OF TODAY
NET
WORTH
$
COMPANY
VARIANCE
$

Mansa Musa

400 billion
emperor of the Mali empire
Bill Gate
85.9 billion
Microsoft
314.1 billion

 John D. Rockefeller

340 billion
Standard Oil
Amancia Ortega
75.8 billion
Inditex fashion group
264.2 billion

Andrew Carnegie

310 billion
U.S. Steel Corp.
Warren Buffett
68.2 billion`
Berkshire Hathway
241.8 billion

Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov

300 billion
emperor of Russia
Jeff Bezos
63.1 billion
Amazon
236.9 billion

Mir Osman Ali Khan

230 billion


ruler of the Hyderabad State in India
Charles Koch
55.2 billion
Koch Industries
174.8 billion

Jakob Fugger

221 billion

 textile trading, mining of silver and gold,  merchant and banking activities
David Koch
55.2 billion
Koch Industries
165.8 billion

William the Conqueror

209 billion to $229 billion

 monarch
Carlos Slim
51.4 billion
extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies
157.6 billion

Muammar Gaddafi

200 billion

ruler of the northern African country of Libya for 42 years
Mark Zuckerberg
49.7 billion
Facebook
150.3 billion

Henry Ford

199 billion

 Ford Motor Co.
Larry Ellison
43.4 billion
Oracle Corporation
155.6 billion

Cornelius Vanderbilt

185 billion

 Vanderbilt University, the building of railroads and shipping lines during the 1800s
Ingvar Kamprad
42.5 billion
IKEA
142.5 billion






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