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Oct 5, 2021 · October 05, 2021 09:08 AM Eastern Daylight Time. NEW YORK-- ( BUSINESS WIRE )--Forbes today released its 40 th annual Forbes 400 list, the definitive ranking of the wealthiest people in America ...
- Elon Musk
- Jeff Bezos
- Bill Gates
- Larry Ellison
- Warren Buffett
- Sergey Brin
- Steve Ballmer
- Michael Bloomberg
- Jim Walton
- Mark Zuckerberg
Source: Tesla, SpaceX
It’s been a wild year for Musk, who became the first person worth $300 billion in November, before Tesla shares slid amid the broader market selloff and investor fears of a distracted CEO after Musk agreed to buy Twitter for $44 billion. Last November, he also secretly fathered twins with an executive of his brain implant startup, Neuralink. In May, he was accused of sexually harassing a SpaceX flight attendant. Musk denied the allegation.
Source: Amazon
Knocked from the top spot for the first time since 2017, the Amazon founder and chairman saw his net worth drop $50 billion as the e-commerce giant’s shares tumbled more than 20%. Bezos stepped down as Amazon CEO in July 2021. Through his VC firm, he has invested in everything from digital media company Overtime Sports to Wildtype, which makes seafood from fish cells. In a public setback, his Blue Origin had to abort a rocket launch in September. Meanwhile, Bezos ordered a superyacht so big t...
Source: Microsoft
In July, Gates announced he was shifting $20 billion of his fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. That big gift accounts for most of the estimated $28 billion drop in his net worth over the past year. Gates, who saw an outbreak like Covid-19 coming back in 2015, released a new book in May: How to Prevent the Next Pandemic.
Source: Oracle
Ellison, who contributed $1 billion to Elon Musk’s Twitter bid, has reportedly been subpoenaed by Twitter in the messy legal battle over the deal. The Oracle founderalso made news in May when it was revealed that he joined a November 2020 conference call to discuss ways to overturn Donald Trump’s election loss. In June, he paid a Florida record of $173 million for a home in Manalapan. Two months later, he listed his North Palm Beach spread for $145 million, less than a year after he paid $80...
Source: Berkshire Hathaway
The legendary bargain hunter began the year lamenting a lack of good deals but soon found plenty. In March, Berkshire Hathaway agreed to shell out $11.6 billion for insurer Allegheny Corp. In April, he told investors he had plowed $51 billion of Berkshire’s cash into stocks, including billion-dollar bets on Chevron, Occidental Petroleum and HP. One of the biggest philanthropists in history, Buffettcontinued his summer tradition of donating billions to charity, giving shares worth about $4 bil...
Source: Google
The elusive founders of the world’s most popular internet search engine gave up operational control of Google and its parent, Alphabet, at the end of 2019. These days they’re making news for more personal reasons. New Zealand confirmed that Page gained residency in the country, while the press feasted on reports that Brin filed to divorce his second wife in January after rumors of a brief affair with Elon Musk. She denied the allegations, as did the Tesla cofounder, who shared selfies of him...
Source: Microsoft
The former Microsoft CEOhas taken his energetic leadership skills to the NBA, after buying the Los Angeles Clippers for a then record $2 billion from the wife of embattled former owner Donald Sterling in 2014. Since then he’s remade the team into a powerhouse, with a string of winning seasons and a glitzy new arena rising in the shadow of the city’s sporting crown jewel: the $5 billion SoFi Stadium, the high-tech home for the NFL’s Los Angeles Rams. He’s throwing good money after good: The Cl...
Net Worth: $76.8 billion
The Bloomberg LP cofounder and former mayor of New York committed $750 million to charter schools last December. In April, he announced that two schools in his home city would receive $100 million apiece. Two months later, Bloomberg Philanthropies joined eight partners in pledging $1 billion to protect the ocean from climate change. Largesse, shrewd tax planning or both? According to leaked IRS data published by ProPublica in April, he paid the fourth-lowest federal income tax rate among Amer...
Source: Walmart
Walmart shares have lost 11% of their value over the last year as higher costs have dented the company’s profits. Since ceding his seat on the retailer’s board to son Steuart in 2016, the richest of the Walton heirshas remained focused on running the family’s Arvest Bank, which will funnel a sliver of its $27 billion in assets to a University of Arkansas football player as part of a name, image and likeness (NIL) deal announced in August.
Source: Facebook
Another tough year for Meta, with daily Facebook users dropping amid competition from apps like TikTok. Zuckerberg’s push into the “metaverse” hasn’t been well received either, prompting him to promise “major updates” to graphics following online criticism. Shares are down 57% since last year’s list, helping lop nearly $74 billion off Zuck’s fortune and moving him out of the top 10 for the first time since 2014.
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