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- 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.
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Tesla stock rose more than five-fold since last year’s list, making Musk the biggest gainer in percentage terms. His meteoric rise, helped along by two massive grants of Tesla shares as part of his CEO compensation, continued after Forbesfinalized net worths for this year’s list in late July. He broke the $100 billion mark in late August, less than...
Nvidia shares are up some 25,000% since Huang took the chipmaker public in 1999, including a 128% jump since last year’s list. Huang, who’s been chief executive since cofounding Nvidia in 1993, owns about 3.6% of its stock.
Before founding cybersecurity firm ZScaler, whose shares have risen 90% since last year, Chaudhry launched four other tech companies that were all acquired. He and his wife, Jyoti, both quit their jobs and used their life savings to start the first of these firms, cybersecurity startup SecureIT.
Garcia III was an executive at his father’s used car dealer and financer DriveTime Automotive Group before cofounding online used car seller Carvana in 2012. Billed as the “Amazon of cars,” Carvana’s stock is up 77% since last year’s list.
His DriveTime operates 127 dealerships across the U.S. and has financed more than 4 million car buyers. The elder Garcia helped fund Carvana, which operated as part of DriveTime before the Garcias spun it out and took it public in 2017.
Shares of Veeva Systems, the cloud software provider for pharmaceutical and biotech companies that he founded and runs as CEO, are up 60% since last year.
The founder and CEO of wireless equipment maker Ubiquiti Networks, Pera’s fortune is up thanks to a 58% rise in Ubiquiti’s stock since last year. He owns about three-quarters of the publicly traded company.
The Twitter cofounder and CEO is richer this year thanks to a 96% bump in the share price of his other company, payments processor Square. That increase more than covers Dorsey’s pledge to give $1 billion of his Square stock to #startsmall, a new philanthropic entity he says will focus on Covid-19 relief, women’s health and education and lobbying f...
In July, along with her announcement of nearly $1.7 billion in donations to 116 nonprofits, Jeff Bezos’ publicity-shy ex wife said she changed her last name from Bezos to her middle name, Scott. Her fortune is still largely tied up in soaring Amazon stock.
America’s richest person had a great year, despite some bad headlines — including coronavirus-related protests by Amazon workers and a big-tech antitrust investigation by Congress. With the quarantining world turning to online shopping, Amazon shares climbed by 64% over the past year.
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- Jeff Bezos. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the world’s wealthiest person for the third year in a row, worth $113 billion.
- Bill Gates. Bill Gates maintained his spot as the second-richest, with $98 billion.
- Bernard Arnault. LVMH chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault is No. 3 on the list, with $76 billion. Louis Vuitton, Moët Hennessy, Dom Pérignon and Dior are among the luxury brands in Arnault’s portfolio.
- Warren Buffett. Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett—who was the richest person in the world for many years—dropped from the top three, to No. 4, for the first time.
In the 35th annual Forbes list of the world's billionaires, the list included 2,755 billionaires with a total net wealth of $13.1 trillion, up 660 members from 2020; 86% of these billionaires had more wealth than they possessed last year.
Apr 7, 2020 · For the third year in a row, Bezos landed the top spot on Forbes’ rank of global billionaires. His net worth fell $18 billion last year to $113 billion, according to Forbes, partially due to...
1 day ago · The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a daily ranking of the world’s richest people. Details about the calculations are provided in the net worth analysis on each billionaire’s profile page.
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