Bloomberg has estimated the fortune of Changpeng Zhao at $ 96 billion

The Bloomberg Billionaire Index for the first time estimated the fortune of the head of Binance at $ 96 billion.

According to Bloomberg, Zhaois in eleventh place in the list of the richest people in the world. His fortune is twice that of Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma, who has about $ 40 billion.

Eight of the ten richest people in the world areAmerican tech billionaires. Zhao may soon be among them, as he is not far behind Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google, each of whom is estimated at $ 120 billion.

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg is in fifthplace with an estimated net worth of $ 124 billion, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is just above him with $ 135 billion. The first place belongs to Elon Musk, whose fortune, according to the Bloomberg index, is estimated at $ 263 billion. By comparison, the Winklevoss twins are worth about $ 5 billion each.

The report added that Zhao could be worth even more if his personal crypto assets were included in the valuation.

CZ itself has not yet commented on Bloomberg's findings.

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