Forbes has been scanning the globe for billionaires since 1987.

Now in its 39th year, the world's billionaires list is longer than ever.

Hi everybody, I'm Bradine Lewis, a breaking news reporter here at Forbes.

Joining me now is my Forbes colleague, Senior Editor, Chase Peterson Withorn.

Chase, thanks so much for joining me. Chase, thanks so much for joining me.

Yeah, thanks so much for having me.

You have edited this list now for three years in a row.

So a big congrats to you.

I can only imagine the undertaking that this list takes.

So before we get into the content, I do want to peel back the layer here.

I want to get a behind the scenes look at exactly how this list is compiled.

How many members of the Forbes staff exactly works on this list?

I mean, how much manpower goes into it?

Yeah, it's a huge undertaking, that's for sure.

It's upwards of 100 reporters digging into the wealth of all the billionaires around the world. So between the Forbes Newsroom, license editions, you know, around the world, other wealth sluice that help us out all around the planet. There's about a hundred of us, I would say. And yeah, I mean,

it's just a big investigative project to sift through thousands and thousands of pages of

documents, tons of legal filings, records, lawsuits, interviewing sources, interviewing the

billionaires, all trying to figure out how rich are the richest people in the world, who are

they, and, you know, following the money and trying to

figure out the answers to some questions that maybe they don't want us asking. Talk to us a little

bit more about the process behind following the money. I mean, what is the criteria here when it comes

to finding exactly who these billionaires around the globe are? Yeah, so, you know, it's, it's,

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