In an era where people are motivated by ambition and the desire to launch their own businesses, a noteworthy handful of people have amassed enormous wealth. These exceptional leaders have achieved the highest levels of success and have become members of the world's wealthiest population. They have a creative and imaginative mind.And that's no simple feat.
After example, the GDP of many nations is not equal to the total wealth of the ten richest people in the planet. These days, most of their money is derived from the retail, finance, and technology sectors. And the growing disparity in income between the affluent and the less fortunate is a big source of concern for people everywhere.
Musk Elon
52 years old
Address: TX's Austin
Nationality: United States
The world's richest individual is Elon Musk. He serves as the CEO of a number of well-known businesses, including SpaceX, a space exploration corporation, and Tesla, an electric vehicle maker. As of this now, he owns a 23 percent share in Tesla. Approximately two thirds of his fortune is dependent on Tesla's success. When Musk paid $44 billion to acquire Twitter in October 2022, the news was publicized.
2010 saw Tesla's IPO under Musk's leadership. In September 2021, Musk became one of the richest persons in the world after the company's market capitalization increased significantly in 2020 and 2021. Musk's wealth peaked in November 2021 at an incredible $320 billion.
The Arnault Family of Bernard
74 years old
Address: Paris
Nationality: France
The CEO and chairman of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH), the largest luxury goods company in the world with almost 70 well-known fashion and cosmetics brands, is Bernard Arnault, the second richest person in the world. Among the well-known brands in its collection are Sephora, Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, and Moet & Chandon. Jeweler Tiffany & Co. was acquired by LVMH in January 2021 for an astounding $15.8 billion.
The five children of Arnault are involved in different areas of the vast LVMH company. He named his daughter Delphine as the head of Dior, the second-biggest brand in the group, in January 2023.
Jeff Bezos
59 years old
Address: Washington's Medina
Nationality: United States
Jeff Bezos chose to resign as CEO of the industry leader in online retail, Amazon, in July 2021, but he will continue to serve as chairman. In that same month, Bezos launched a space expedition on a rocket built by Blue Origin, a privately held space exploration firm he founded and kindly contributed billions of money to.
Ellison, Larry
79 years old
Address: Hawaii's Lanai
Nationality: United States
In 1977, Larry Ellison co-founded Oracle, a software company, and served as its CEO until 2014. He currently holds the positions of chairman and chief technology officer for the business. When Ellison paid $300 million for the Hawaiian island of Lanai in 2012, the news was publicized. Ellison also made financial ventures, such as a substantial investment in Tesla, where he was a director from 2018 to 2022.
Mark Zuckerberg
39-year-old
Residence: California's Palo Alto
Nationality: United States
At the age of 19, Mark Zuckerberg co-founded and serves as CEO of Meta Platforms, which launched Facebook, the company's main social media platform, in 2004. He was a Harvard University student studying psychology and computer science. Facebook was designed to allow students' identities and photographs to be matched on campus. Facebook opened its doors to anyone with a working email account who was at least 13 years old in 2006.
After taking the business public in May 2012, Zuckerberg was listed as the 10th most powerful person in the world by Forbes in December 2016. At the moment, Zuckerberg holds roughly 13% of the business's equity.
The 39-year-old IT enthusiast has three daughters from his marriage to Priscilla Chan. He and his spouse are investing $3 billion to try and eradicate, treat, or control all illness by the year 2100.
Larry Page
55 years old,
lives in Palo Alto, California
Nationality: United States
In 1998, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, a fellow PhD candidate at Stanford, co-founded Google. Page was the CEO from 2011 until 2015. He had previously served in that capacity until 2001.
As a big stakeholder, he currently holds enormous authority over Alphabet, the parent company of Google, in addition to his role as a member of the board.
In addition, Page was a significant founding investor in the space exploration corporation Planetary Resources.
Warren Buffett
93 years old
Address: Nebraska's Omaha
Nationality: United States
Known to many as the "Oracle of Omaha," Warren Buffett is one of the greatest investors in history. He is the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, an investing conglomerate that owns a wide range of businesses, including the food chain Dairy Queen, the insurance company Geico, and the battery producer Duracell.
The Giving Pledge program was started in 2010 by Buffett, Bill and Melinda Gates, and Melinda French Gates. It encourages billionaires to give up at least half of their money to philanthropic causes. Buffett has declared that he will contribute 99 percent of his money, demonstrating his unwavering dedication to philanthropy.
Bill Gates
67 years old.
Address: Washington's Medina
Nationality: United States
Forbes was the first to identify Gates as a billionaire in 1987. With brief breaks in 2008 and 2010–2013, he held the title of richest person in the world from 1995 until 2017. Melinda French Gates received at least $6 billion in stocks as part of the settlement when she and Bill Gates divorced in 2021. Based on estimations from Forbes, between May 1 and June 1, 2023, Gates' wealth increased by about $500 million, which moved him up one slot to take the fifth place in the rankings.
Sergey Brin
50 years old
Residence: California's Los Altos
Nationality: United States
In 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, his Stanford PhD colleague, were instrumental in founding the Google search engine. Russian-born Brin was Google's first technology president before moving on to special project management, where he oversaw the creation of Google Glass, a wearable with voice-activated "smart glasses." At the moment, Brin has a sizable controlling interest in Alphabet, the corporation that owns Google, in addition to serving as a board member.
Ballmer Steve
67 years old
Residence: Washington's Hunts Point
Nationality: United States
Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates's classmate at Harvard University, led Microsoft as CEO from 2000 to 2014.
After leaving Stanford University's MBA program, he joined Microsoft as its thirty-first employee in 1980, marking the beginning of his career with the corporation.
Ballmer made news the year he retired from Microsoft when he spent an astounding $2 billion to acquire the Los Angeles Clippers basketball franchise, which at the time was a record-breaking amount for the most money ever paid for an NBA team.
Carlos Slim Helu
83 years old
Place of residence: Mexico City
Mexican nationality
América Móvil, the biggest mobile telecommunications firm in Latin America with operations in over 15 countries, is controlled by Carlos Slim Helu and his family. The government-owned telephone firm Telmex was purchased by Slim and international telecom partners in 1990, and it was later merged into América Móvil.
Slim owns interests in a number of Mexican businesses, including real estate, consumer products, construction, and mining, in addition to his telecom endeavors.
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