Forbes‘s 2018 billionaires list, released Tuesday, features a number of money makers with local connections.
Harvard dropouts Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg finished second and fifth on the list with fortunes of $90 billion and $71 billion, respectively. Gates, who topped the 2017 edition of the magazine’s list, fell behind Amazon head honcho Jeff Bezos ($112 billion). Berkshire Hathaway founder Warren Buffet ($84 billion) and French business tycoon Bernard Arnault, and his family ($72 billion), rounded out the top five.
Among the other 2,208 billionaires on this year’s list were a trio of business magnates born in the area: Medford native and former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg ($50 billion, 11th place), Dorchester native and casino magnate Sheldon Adelson ($38.