Fortnite is certainly the golden goose of the video game industry at the moment and this is now confirmed by the fact that the game has allowed Epic Games to generate profits of 3 billion USD in 2018 thanks to the sale of its cosmetic stuff and to the Battle Pass. In short, an unprecedented success.
These dazzling profits has allowed Epic's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney to officially enter in Bloomberg's world's richest men's rankings (via GamesIndustry). Sweeney has in fact risen to the 195th position of the richest billionaires on the planet, leapfrogging Gabe Newell, Valve's boss, who sits at position number 368, with a gap of 3 billion dollars separating them.
To make Sweeney so rich is, of course, his share of participation in Epic Games, equal to 44.7%, which equates to assets worth $ 15 billion. However, the road is still far to outclass Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder/CEO/President, who is at the top with $137 billion, followed by Bill Gates with $92.5 billion. A little bit further down the ladder, but still well above Sweeney and Newell are NetEase CEO William Ding, or Tencent co-founder Zhang Zhidong at 74th and 79th position respectively.