There are more than 2700 billionaires all around the world. The richest among them belong to the CEO & co-founder of Tesla while the others are founders of technology giants. As everybody knows the main amount of these billionaires is invested in several enterprises which results in their net worth fluctuations as per the changing market values.Top 10 Richest Person in the World with Country are listed below.
Below is the recent list of the 10 richest people on the planet as per the stats gathered in from Forbes.
Elon Musk
Elon Musk is the chief executive officer (CEO) and co-founder of an automotive company, Tesla. The total value of his 17% stake in this company is around $153 billion. He is the richest person on this planet with a net worth of around $225 billion including private assets of $40.3 billion and $3.9 billion in cash.
Being born in Pretoria, South Africa, he studied business and physics at the University of Pennsylvania. He even pursued a Ph.D. in energy physics but dropped out of Stanford University. Elon always had a mission to accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy. In 2004, he became a major funder of Tesla Motors which later turned him into the current CEO of the company.
He also bought the social media giant Twitter in an all-cash transaction worth $44 billion. Along with that, Elon is also the CEO and founder of a Spacecraft engineering company, SpaceX, and an infrastructure construction service company, The Boring Company.
Bernard Arnault
French personality, Bernard Jean Étienne Arnault a.k.a Bernard Arnault is the CEO and co-founder of the largest luxury goods company, Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE (LVMH). He is also the owner of other luxurious companies like Louis Vuitton, Hennessey, Marc Jacobs, and Sephora. He has become the world’s second-richest person with a net worth of $150 billion which includes $24.4 billion invested in public assets in Moelis & Company and $10.9 billion in cash.
Right after receiving an engineering degree from the École Polytechnique, Bernard joined his father’s company named Ferret-Savinel. At first, he served as the in-charge there. Later, converted it to a real state company named Férinel Inc. in 1979. From the money he earned from that company, he was able to buy Christian Dior for $15 million in 1985. His empire started to grow and he formed more than 70 brands from it.
He was labeled as chair of the board, and CEO of the company, LVMH in 1989. Christian Dior is one of his greatest stakes (97.5%) stake as it also controls 41.3% of LVMH. Now, the share of Christian Dior and 6.2% in LVMH are held by Groupe Familial Arnault which is the company of Bernard’s family.
Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos is the founder of CEO of an American multinational technology company, Amazon. He has a stake of 10% in this company which is worth around $153 billion. With a net worth of $133 billion, he has been able to be in third place as the world’s richest person. He is also the owner of The Washington Post ($250 million) and Blue Origin ($9.15 billion stakes).
Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Jeff studied Bachelor of Science in computer science at Princeton University. After finishing his education, he joined a financial technology firm, Fitel. He got into Amazon for selling books. Following his work, he created Amazon’s business plan from New York to Seattle and founded the company in 1994.
In 2019, Jeff owned 16% of Amazon shares but he had to transfer 4% of its stakes (around $36 billion) to his ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott as alimony following their divorce. Later, he sold some stock of Amazon which was worth $8.8 billion in 2021.
Bill Gates
The co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates a.k.a William Henry Gates III is in fourth place as the richest person with a net worth of $123 billion. He owns a 1.3% stake in Microsoft which is worth $30.8 billion. He also has public assets in an American holding company, Cascade Investment LLC worth $55.9 million, and private assets of $55.3 billion in cash.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Bill attended Harvard University in 1975. In the following year, he started to work along with one of his childhood friends, Paul Allen to develop new software for the original microcomputers. However, he dropped out of the university in order to continue the project and the project turned out to be a huge success named Microsoft. Since then, Bill is serving as the co-founder of the company.
Bill and his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates own the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation which has donated billions to fight polio, malaria, and the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, he had to give $5 billion in equities following his divorce from his ex-wife, Melinda. On the other hand, Bill is known as the biggest private owner of farmland with more than 268,000 acres over 19 states in the United States of America.
Gautam Adani
The Indian Infrastructure tycoon, Gautam Adani a.k.a Gautam Shantilal Adani is the founder of Adani Group, a multinational conglomerate company. He is the fifth richest person in the world with a net worth of $101.5 billion which makes him the richest person in Asia. Gautam has 75% stakes in (Adani Enterprises, Adani Power, and Adani Transmissions), 61% stakes in Adani Green Energy, 37% stakes in Adani Total Gas, and 65% stakes in (Adani Ports & Special Economic Zone).
Without completing his college degree, Gautam started to work in the diamond trade. He established Adani Group as a commodity trading business in partnership in the year 1988. It took no time for Gautam to become India’s largest port operator, airport operator, closely-held thermal coal producer, and coal trader. His stake in Adani Enterprises, Power is worth $51.1 billion.
He purchased India’s second busiest airport, Mumbai International Airport with a stake of 74% in the year 2020. Gautam has often mentioned that his dream is to be the world’s largest producer of green energy very soon. For that, he will be investing up to $70 billion in renewable energy projects. Gautam won the race to acquire Swiss giant Holcim’s cement business worth $10.5 billion in March 2022.
Larry Page
Lawrence Edward Page a.k.a Larry Page is the co-founder and boarding member of Alphabet, a multinational conglomerate company. Alphabet is also the parent of Google. He has been able to secure the sixth position as the world’s richest person with a net worth of $96.7 billion. Larry is the 6% stakeholder of Alphabet which is worth $88.8 billion while his other assets include $14.6 billion in cash.
Right after completing a degree of a Master of Science in computer science from Stanford University, Larry and his friend Sergey Brin got successful to cofound Google in 1998. They always had an idea about internet data extraction. The duo even founded Google’s PageRank algorithm which is used to rank web pages in search engines. In 2021, Google’s shares increased by 50% which results in the duo being on billionaire lists.
On the other hand, Larry is also a founding investor of an American company, Planetary Resources which is used to expand Earth’s natural resource base. He was one of the early investors among others. Larry was quite amazed by “flying car companies” that’s why he invested in startups like Kitty Hawk and Opener.
Warren Buffett
Warren Edward Buffett a.k.a Warren Buffett is the seventh world’s richest person with a net worth of $95.6 billion including $1.1 billion in cash. He is serving as the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Berkshire Hathaway which is a multinational conglomerate company based in the United States. He has a 16% stake in Berkshire Hathaway worth $114 billion. Besides, he runs other 60 companies like GEICO, Duracell, Dairy Queen, BNSF Railway, and so on.
At the age of 21 years old, Warren joined Buffett-Falk & Co. as an investment salesman. After gathering a lot of business experiences, he was able to buy some shares in a textile company, Berkshire Hathaway in 1962. Later, he expanded the company into insurance which turned out to be a huge success. The market value of Berkshire Hathaway is more than $705 billion.
Warren gave more than $45 million to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and his children’s charities. Not only this, but Warren has also donated some amount to philanthropy. He has made promises about donating 99% of his wealth to several charities. Warren and Bill launched a campaign, Giving Pledge to encourage other billionaires to contribute a majority of their wealth to charitable causes in 2010.
Mukesh Ambani
Mukesh Ambani is the chairman and managing director of Reliance Industries, a multinational conglomerate company based in India. He has been in the eighth position as the world’s richest person with a net worth of $95.2 billion which makes him the second richest person in Asia. The total value of his 42% stake in Reliance Industries is worth $96.5 billion while his private assets are worth $410 million in Mumbai residential property.
Mukesh got into the business due to his father’s guidance. His father, Dhirubhai Ambani founded Reliance Industries as a small textile business in the year 1966. Mukesh graduated with a degree in chemical engineering from the University of Mumbai. Since his graduation, he has been working as a member of Reliance’s board of directors.
After his father’s death in 2002, Mukesh started to look after the refining, petrochemicals, oil and gas, and textile operations of the company while his brother hold the department of Reliance’s telecom, power, entertainment, and financial services assets. Besides, Mukesh also serves as a member of the board of the World Economic Forum. He donated $66.7 million to the government’s COVID-19 fund in the year 2020.
Larry Ellison
Lawrence Joseph Ellison (Larry Ellison) is the ninth richest person in the world with a net worth of $94.7 billion which includes $13.1 billion in a public asset in Tesla equity while $17.3 billion in cash and real estate investment. He currently serves as the co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle Corporation an American computer software company. His 35% stake in Oracle Corporation is worth $63.3 billion.
Born in New York City, Larry studied physics and mathematics at the University of Chicago. However, he dropped out of the university and started to work at an electronics company, Ampex in the early 1970s. In 1977, he co-founded the software giant Oracle Corp with Bob Miner and Ed Oates. Larry lead the company for 37 years. Due to his leadership, the company grew into the second-largest supplier of business applications in the world.
On the other hand, he also holds 98% of the stakes in the sixth largest-Hawaiian island, Lanai. He bought it for $300 million in the year 2012. In December 2018, he joined the board of an automotive company, Tesla. Larry has also acquired two software companies like Sun Microsystems and NetSuite. In 2010, he acquired Sun Microsystems for $7.4 billion while NetSuite for $9.3 billion in 2016.
Sergey Brin
Sergey Mikhailovich Brin a.k.a Sergey Brin is the co-founder and boarding member of Alphabet, an American multinational technology conglomerate along with Larry Page. He has been able to be in the top 10 richest people with a net worth of $93 billion. His 6% in Alphabet is worth $88.8 billion while he also has an asset of $14.8 billion in cash.
Born in Moscow, Russia, Sergey studied computer science at Stanford University. During that time, he met Larry Page and they started to spend a lot of time together researching internet data extraction. As a result, they founded Google together in the year 1998 but it went public in 2004. Along with that, they even founded Google’s PageRank algorithm. In 2021 Google’s shares increased by 50% which helped them to be on the list of top billionaires.
Sergey stepped back as president of Alphabet in 2019 and started to focus on Alphabet’s research laboratory X. Currently, he serves as a co-founder and boarding member of Alphabet. Sergey is also funding a high-tech airship project. On the other hand, he has actively donated millions of dollars to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s disease research.
