1. Jeff Bezos [ $190.8B ]
Entrepreneur and e-commerce pioneer Jeff Bezos is the founder and CEO of the e-commerce company Amazon, owner of The Washington Post and
founder of the space exploration company Blue Origin. His successful
business ventures have made him one of the richest people in the
world. Born in 1964 in New Mexico, Bezos had an early love of computers
and studied computer science and electrical engineering at Princeton
University.
After graduation, he worked on Wall Street, and in 1990 he
became the youngest senior vice president at the investment firm D.E.
Shaw. Four years later, Bezos quit his lucrative job to open Amazon.com,
an online bookstore that became one of the Internet's biggest success
stories. In 2013, Bezos purchased The Washington Post, and in
2017 Amazon acquired Whole Foods. In February 2021, Amazon announced
that Bezos will step down as CEO in the third quarter of the year.
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $190.8 billion and ranks as the first richest person on the earth today.
2. Elon Musk [ $177.2B]
Elon Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur and businessman who founded X.com in 1999 (which later became PayPal), SpaceX in 2002 and Tesla Motors in 2003. Musk became a multimillionaire in his late 20s when he sold his start-up company, Zip2, to a division of Compaq Computers.
Musk made headlines in May 2012, when SpaceX launched a rocket that would send the first commercial vehicle to the International Space Station. He bolstered his portfolio with the purchase of Solar City in 2016 and cemented his standing as a leader of industry by taking on an advisory role in the early days of President Donald Trump's administration.
In January 2021, Musk reportedly surpassed Jeff Bezos as the wealthiest man in the world.
Elon Musk is working to revolutionize transportation both on Earth, through electric car maker Tesla - and in space, via rocket producer Space X. Elon Musk's rocket company is now valued at nearly $100 billion, currently, his net worth is $177.2 billion. Musk’s rocket company, Space X is now valued at nearly $100 billion. Tesla has become the world’s most valuable automaker with a market capitalization of $342 billion.
3. Bernard Arnault & family [ $154.9B ]
Bernard Arnault & family is a French billionaire businessman and art collector. He is the chairman and chief executive of LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton SE, the world's largest luxury-goods company. In April 2018, he became the richest person in fashion, topping Zara's Amancio Ortega.
LVMH – France Chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault rank third in the world in terms of riches. His net worth is $154.9 billion ensuing from his business across an empire of more than 70 brands including Louis Vuitton and Sephora. French businessman and Europe’s richest man Bernard Arnault earned the $100 billion fortune last year in December.
4. Bill Gates [ $124.3B ]
Entrepreneur and businessman Bill Gates and his business partner Paul Allen founded and built the world's largest software business, Microsoft, through technological innovation, keen business strategy and aggressive business tactics. In the process, Gates became one of the richest men in the world. In February 2014, Gates announced that he was stepping down as Microsoft's chairman to focus on charitable work at his foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The co-founder of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates has a
net worth of $122.0 billion. Having founded the software giant Microsoft
along with Paul Allen, Bill Gates eventually sold away much of his
stakes in the company retaining just 1% of the shares and investing the
rest in stocks and other assets. Bill Gates entered the $100 billion
club last year in April when Microsoft share price surged post-earnings.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the world’s largest private
charitable foundation.
5. Mark Zuckerberg [ $98.9B ]
Mark Zuckerberg co-founded the social-networking website Facebook out of his college dorm room at Harvard University. Zuckerberg left college after his sophomore year to concentrate on the site, the user base of which has grown to more than two billion people, making Zuckerberg a billionaire many times over. The birth of Facebook was portrayed in the 2010 film The Social Network.
The co-founder, CEO and chairman of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg champions the social network that has become a go-to communications avenue today. His net worth is $99.8 billion and today he owns about 15% stakes in Facebook after the firm went public in May 2012. Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire. His net worth zoomed past the $100 billion mark — all thanks to Instagram Reels — the alternative to TikTok which was banned in India earlier this year and is facing troubles in the US as well.
6. Zhong Shanshan [ $94.6B ]
The Chinese billionaire is the founder of the largest beverage company in China and his net worth is $94.6 billion. He held a variety of jobs, including construction worker and news reporter before building his own business, Nongfu Spring. He is also the Chairman of a pharma company, Wantai.
7. Warren Buffet [ $91.8B ]
Warren Buffett demonstrated keen business abilities at a young age. He formed Buffett Partnership Ltd. in 1956, and by 1965 he had assumed control of Berkshire Hathaway. Overseeing the growth of a conglomerate with holdings in the media, insurance, energy and food and beverage industries, Buffett became one of the world's richest men and a celebrated philanthropist.
Popularly known as the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffet is seen as one of the most successful investors of all times. He runs Berkshire Hathaway that owns over 60 companies including the famous ones Geico insurance, Duracell, Dairy Queen Restaurant. His net worth is $91.8 billion. The son of a US congressman, he bought his first stock at the age of 11.
8. Larry Page [ $ 91.1B ]
Born in Michigan in 1973, Larry Page's parents were both computer experts. Following in their footsteps, he studied computer engineering at Stanford University, where he met Sergey Brin. The duo developed a search engine that listed results according to the popularity of the pages and, with Page as CEO, Google became the world's most popular search engine after launching in 1998. Page and Brin later took charge of Google's new parent company, Alphabet, until stepping down from their everyday roles in late 2019.
Larry Page, the co-founder of Google has a net worth of 91.1 billion US$ and ranks in the 8th position among the world’s richest persons. He has also invested in Planetary Resources, the famed space exploration company, and is also funding “Flying Car”, startup companies Kitty Hawk and Opener.
9. Sergey Brin [ $ 88.43B ]
Sergey Brin is a computer scientist and entrepreneur. He met Larry Page at Stanford University, and the two created a search engine that would sort web pages based on popularity. Google became the most popular search engine in the world after launching in 1998, its overwhelming success turning the co-founders into billionaires. Brin and Page later became president and CEO of Google's parent company, Alphabet, before they stepped down from their roles in December 2019.
10. Larry Ellison [ $88.1B ]
Larry Ellison has a net worth of $88.1 billion which he earned from Oracle, the software firm he co-founded in 1977. He quit as the CEO of the company in 2014 and since then he functions as the chairman of the board and chief technology advisor of the company. Ellison has also been on the board of Tesla since December 2018 after he purchased 3 million shares earlier that year. He owns nearly all of Hawaiian island Lanai.
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