Uğur Şahin entered the World's Richest List

Uğur Şahin entered the World's Richest List Uğur Şahin entered the list of the world’s richest people. BioNTech CEO Sahin's fortune is around $ 5.12 billion. The owner and CEO of the German-based BioNTech company, which developed a vaccine against coronavirus along with the US company Pfizer Prof.Dr.Uğur Şahin has entered Bloomberg's 500 richest people list. The shares of Germany-based BioNTech company have gained over 250 percent this year. The rise in the value of BionTech shares traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange in the USA has made Prof.Dr. Uğur Şahin one of the richest 500 people in the world with his $ 5.1 billion fortune.   Company's Market Value Increased BioNTech stock price, which was $ 38.5 at the beginning of the year, stands at $ 120 today. The market value of the company is now around $ 28.9 billion. According to data on the Bloomberg billionaires index, Uğur Şahin, who holds an 18.8 percent stake in BioNTech and is also the CEO of the company, has increased his wealth by $ 3.7 billion and to $ 5.12 billion since the beginning of the year. Thus, Şahin, became one of the 500 richest people in the world, also became the only Turk on the list. Dr. Özlem Türeci and Prof. Dr. Uğur Şahin, which are the children of families who have immigrated to Germany from Turkey many years ago, are among the first scientists to develop a vaccine against coronavirus. Jeff Bezos leads the list of the richest people in the world. With a fortune of $ 185 billion, Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos is followed by Tesla's CEO Elon Musk with $ 145 billion. In third place is Bill Gates, the CEO of Microsoft, with a fortune of $ 129 billion.