Elon Musk’s fortune is $238 billion and has grown by $101 billion since the beginning of the year.
Founder of the American companies Tesla and SpaceX, owner of the social network billionaire X Elon Musk at the end of 2023 remains the richest person in the world. This is confirmed by the ranking of billionaires from Bloomberg, published on Thursday, December 28.
Thus, Musk’s fortune is $238 billion and has grown by $101 billion since the beginning of the year.
In second place in the ranking is a French businessman Bernard Arnault, which has a controlling stake in Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH), with $179 billion. In third place is the founder and former CEO of Amazon. Jeff Bezoswhose wealth is estimated at $178 billion.
The top ten richest people in the world also include:
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Microsoft founder Bill Gates ($140 billion);
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former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer ($130 billion);
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meta founder Mark Zuckerberg ($129 billion);
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Google and Alphabet co-founder Larry Page ($127 billion);
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founder and head of Oracle Corporation Larry Ellison ($124 billion);
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co-founder of Google, Alphabet Sergey Brin ($120 billion);
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American investor and philanthropist Warren Buffett ($120 billion).
Bloomberg’s ranking of the richest people in the world also includes a Ukrainian – oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, whose wealth is estimated at $5.77 billion (since the beginning of the year it has increased by $437 million). He got the 471st place in the ranking.
It will be remembered that in July, Elon Musk regained the title of the richest person in the world according to Forbes. Before this, the billionaire was in second place in the ranking due to a drop in Tesla shares of almost 10% amid a disappointing quarterly earnings report.
Source: korrespondent
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