American billionaire Elon Musk increased his wealth by $96.6 billion in the first six months.
Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter owner Elon Musk and Meta Platforms owner Mark Zuckerberg have topped the list of the world’s richest people for the past six months. Bloomberg reported this.
It was noted that the 500 richest people in the world in the first half of 2023 increased their wealth by $852 billion.
Each member of the Bloomberg Billionaires earned an average of $14 million a day over the past six months.
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This has been the best half of the year for billionaires since the latter half of 2020, when the economy recovered from the downturn caused by Covid-19.
Elon Musk, an American entrepreneur, owner of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter, who increased his wealth by $96.6 billion in the first six months, topped the rating of the rich. At the same time, the growth of the billionaire’s capital continues: on July 3, Tesla shares increased by 6.9%, bringing another $ 13 billion to Musk. In total, his wealth is estimated at 234 billion dollars.
Mark Zuckerberg, the owner of Meta Platforms (social networks Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp), came second on the list – in June his fortune increased by $58.9 billion and now stands at $104 billion.
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: Bloomberg
The top 10 also includes Microsort founder Bill Gates ($134 billion), Oracle founder and Tesla shareholder Larry Ellison ($133 billion), former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer ($118 billion), investor Warren Buffett ($115 billion), Alphabet co-founder (owner Google) Larry Page ($110 billion) and Google co-founder Sergey Brin ($104 billion).
It will be remembered that at the end of 2022, Arno topped the ranking of the richest people in the world, surpassing Musk. However, in the first five months of 2023, he lost first place after the collapse of LVMH shares. Then Musk topped the list again.
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