The publication’s 35th annual list comprises 2,755 billionaires, 660 more than in 2020. Ms. Faulkner, 78, placed 451 on the list. She is worth $6 billion, up from $2.5 billion in April 2020.
Ms. Faulkner founded Epic in 1979. The EHR giant supports the medical records of more than 250 million patients and in 2020 posted $3.3 billion in sales.
Here are the world’s top five billionaires, according to Forbes.
1. Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon ($177 billion)
2. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, SpaceX ($151 billion)
3. Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH ($150 billion)
4. Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft ($124 billion)
5. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook ($97 billion)
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