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Oct 3, 2023 · Elon Musk remains the richest person in America, for the second year running. At an estimated $251 billion, he’s worth exactly the same as last year—and $90 billion more than second-place Jeff...
- Real Time Billionaires - Forbes
Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires rankings tracks the daily ups...
- America’s 10 Richest Billionaires 2022 - Forbes
Musk overtook Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest...
- The 2021 Forbes 400 List Of Richest Americans: Facts And Figures
Forbes calculated net worths for the list using stock prices...
- Forbes 400 2021: The Top 20 Richest People In America
The world’s richest person as of the list’s measurement date...
- Real Time Billionaires - Forbes
- Bernard Arnault & family. $194.8 B 72 France.
- Jeff Bezos. $193.4 B 57 United States.
- Elon Musk. $153.2 B 49 United States.
- Bill Gates. $126.8 B 65 United States.
- The Ten Richest Americans
- Elon Musk
- Jeff Bezos
- Bill Gates
- Warren Buffett
- Sergey Brin
- Larry Ellison
- Steve Ballmer
- Michael Bloomberg
- Mark Zuckerberg
Forbescalculated net worths for the 2022 list of the World’s Billionaires using stock prices and currency exchange rates from March 11, 2022.
Residence: Austin, Texas
Musk overtook Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest person on Forbes’ 2022 list of the World’s Billionaires, buoyed by a rise in the share price of automaker Tesla. Musk, who ranked number two on Forbes’ 2021 list, first debuted on the Forbes billionaires list a decade ago, in 2012, worth $2 billion. The Tesla chief unloaded more than $16 billion of the electric vehicle maker’s shares over two months last year, likely resulting in the largest-ever one-year tax bill for an individual. What...
Residence: Seattle, Washington
For the first time in four years, Bezos is not the world’s richest. His fortune is $6 billion lower than a year ago, due to a 3% drop in Amazon stock and an uptick in his charitable donations. Since giving up the CEO role in July, he has focused on other endeavors: his commercial space company, Blue Origin, launched him into the heavens last summer; he has reportedly bought a superyacht; and he stepped up his charitable giving by donating more than $1 billion in 2021 to causes such as Barack...
Residence: Medina, Washington
The now-divorced Microsoft cofounder has been busy writing, with a book out last year on how to battle climate change and another coming in May about preventing another pandemic. In March, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation joined a coalition to develop drug candidates to combat future global contagions.
Residence: Omaha, Nebraska
Berkshire Hathaway shares sit at record highs after a string of deals. Last fall, Buffett made a well-timed bet on Activision Blizzard, plowing $1.1 billion into the video game maker’s shares three months before Microsoft agreed to acquire it for $69 billion. His Berkshire Hathaway has snapped up some $7 billion worth of Occidental Petroleum stock this year amid soaring oil prices. In March, he led the biggest acquisition in years when Berkshire agreed to purchase insurer Alleghany for $11.6...
Residence: Los Altos, California
Google cofounders Page and Brin (pictured above), who together retain a controlling stake and sit on the board of parent company Alphabet, began selling shares last year for the first time since 2017. Each has cashed out more than $1 billion since May 2021, Forbesestimates.
Residence: Lanai, Hawaii
Oracle’s chairman and former CEO is more than $10 billion wealthier this year as shareholders cheered its transition into a cloud-based company. In September, Ellison snapped up a Lake Tahoe resort for $345 million. His sprawling real estate portfolio includes the Hawaiian island of Lanai, which he bought for $300 million in 2012, and at least ten properties on Malibu’s glitzy Carbon Beach.
Residence: Hunts Point, Washington
The NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers, which the former Microsoft CEO bought for a lofty $2 billion eight years ago, are now valued by Forbesat $3.3 billion. Not a bad return. But it’s Microsoft stock that has really let Ballmer run up the score—its shares are up more than 600% over the same period, adding more than $65 billion to his net worth.
Residence: New York City
The man whose Bloomberg terminals power Wall Street pledged $120 million to combat drug overdoses in November and $750 million to support charter schools in December. New York’s former mayor also spent $1.2 billion backing Democrats (including more than $1 billion on his own abortive White House run) in the 2020 election cycle. He’s more bearish about 2022, warning Dems in a recent opinion piece that “absent an immediate course correction, the party is headed for a wipeout in November.”
Residence: Palo Alto, California
Facebook renamed itself Meta Platforms in October as Zuckerberg sets his sights on building a nebulously defined (and potentially undesired) techtopia called the “metaverse.” He has good reason to escape the physical world, in which Meta shares have dropped by 50% since their September peak. He’s out of the world’s 10 richest for the first time in six years. With reporting by Matt Durot, John Hyatt, Rachel Sandler and Chase Peterson-Withorn
The Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. The combined net worth of the 2020 class of the 400 richest Americans was $3.2 trillion, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017. As of March 2023, there were 735 billionaires in the United States.
Oct 5, 2021 · Forbes calculated net worths for the list using stock prices from September 3, 2021—which turned out to be close to record highs for U.S. stock indices like the S&P 500. The richest person in...
Oct 4, 2023 · Elon Musk has topped the Forbes 400 2023 list of the richest people in America, which was published on Tuesday. The 52-year-old Tesla and SpaceX cofounder was reported to have a net worth...
Oct 5, 2021 · The world’s richest person as of the list’s measurement date was Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, with a net worth of $201 billion, though Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX has since stolen the crown (at...
