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Apr 2, 2024 · China remains second, with 473 (including Hong Kong) worth $1.7 trillion, despite weak consumer spending and a real estate bust that helped wipe out some $300 billion in wealth. India, which has ...
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- Jeff Bezos - U.S. CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos was worth $113 on March 18, according to Forbes. (Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images) Jeff Bezos, 56, is the richest man in the world, despite transferring a quarter of his Amazon stake to his ex-wife MacKenzie last summer, according to Forbes.
- Bill Gates - U.S. Bill Gates is pictured in 2017. He was worth $98 billion on March 18, according to Forbes. (REUTERS/Pierre Albouy) Bill Gates, 64, was worth $98 billion on March 18, according to Forbes.
- Bernard Arnault & Family - France. Bernard Arnault was worth $76 billion on March 18, according to Forbes. (Photo by Michel SETBOUN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)
- Warren Buffett - U.S. Warren Buffett, 89, was worth $67.5 billion on March 18. Buffett is one of the most successful investors of all time, according to Forbes.
- Bernard Arnault and Family
- Jeff Bezos
- Elon Musk
- Bill Gates
- Mark Zuckerberg
- Larry Ellison
- Larry Page
- Sergey Brin
- Warren Buffett
- Françoise Bettencourt Meyers and Family
The fight at the top to be the world's wealthiest billionaire is ongoing, but for now, Bernard Arnaultand his family take the crown. Arnault is the chairman and chief executive of the world's largest luxury goods company, LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton SE. He and his family are worth a staggering $197.5 billion. Brands under the company include...
Often number one on the list, depending on how Amazon is doing on the stock market, Jeff Bezosis currently in second place with his $192.8 billion fortune. He first founded Amazon as an online bookstore in 1994, but it has grown to be the world's largest online sales company, as well as moving into video streaming and artificial intelligence. Bezos...
A man with quite the CV, Elon Musk is the the founder, CEO and Chief Engineer at SpaceX; CEO, and Product Architect of Tesla; founder of The Boring Company and cofounder of Neuralink and OpenAI, while he is often credited with cofounding X.com, which eventually became PayPal and was sold to eBay. As well as being a centibillionaire, Musk is known f...
As the co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation, Bill Gatesis one of the most recognisable faces of the technology revolution and between 1995 to 2017, he held the Forbes title of the richest person in the world every year except from 2010 to 2013. Gates left day to day operations at Microsoft in 2008 to focus more on philanthropic efforts around gl...
Mark Zuckerbergis probably to blame for you wasting so much time online in the 2010s. Zuckberg is the cofounder, chairman, CEO and controlling shareholder of Facebook, with the social networking site's success leading to his billionaire status. Dropping out of Harvard to develop the site, Facebook has grown to have an estimated 2.89 billion monthly...
Businessman Larry Ellison is the co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer (CTO) and former CEO of the second largest software company in the world, Oracle Corporation. As well as this, he owns shares in Elon Musk's company Tesla, and even owns the Hawaiian island of Lana'i.
The second Larry on the billionaire list, Page is best known as the co-founder of search engine Google. Page is currently an Alphabetboard member, employee, and controlling shareholder, after previously holding the positions of CEO of Alphabet Inc, Google's parent company, and CEO of Google. He is also an investor in Teslamotors, founded the think ...
Worth slightly less than Page but still very, very rich, Sergey Brin is the other cofounder of Google. Brin was president of Alphabet Inc until 2019, and remains at the company as a co-founder, board member and controlling shareholder. He has been involved in Google's Project Glass program and its driverless car project, and is also interested in b...
Considered one of the world's most successful investors, Warren Buffetis the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway—a multinational conglomerate holding company which wholly owns companies including GEICO, Duracell, Dairy Queen, BNSF, Lubrizol, Fruit of the Loom and Helzberg Diamonds. Berkshire Hathaway also has minority holdings in Kraft Heinz Com...
Rounding out the top 10 is Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, the richest woman in the world, who, along with her family, lays claim to a fortune of over $92 billion. Following her mother Liliane's death in 2017, Bettencourt Meyers took over her mother's title as world's richest woman, thanks to her 33 percent stake in L'Oréal. Bettencourt Meyers' grand...
Apr 27, 2020 · Gaining the highest across the top 10 is former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who saw his fortune rise over $21 billion since March 2019. Facing the steepest losses belong to investing luminary Warren Buffett, whose net worth has dropped over $9 billion over the past year. At year-end 2019 Buffett was a 11% shareholder in Delta Airlines.
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Apr 2, 2024 · As the richest woman in the world, she is worth $99.5 billion. The top four wealthiest women after Bettencourt: 21. Alice Walton, Walmart founder Sam Walton's daughter, who is worth $72.3 billion; 23.
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The Bloomberg Billionaires Index, launched in March 2012, is a daily ranking of the world's 500 richest people based on their net worth. It features a profile of each billionaire, and includes a tool that allows users to compare the fortunes of multiple billionaires. The index is updated every day at the close of trading in New York.
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Mar 16, 2020 · As of 2020, Julia Flesher Koch's net worth is $51 billion. She instantly became the second richest woman in the world when her husband David died in August 2019. 16. Charles Koch Net Worth $51 ...
