Top 10 richest person in the world

With so much of their wealth in publicly traded stocks, the net worth of the richest fluctuates along with the market valuations of the companies they own. Below are the 10 wealthiest people on the planet, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. All figures are current as of June 2, 2023, unless otherwise stated. • Elon Musk; CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and owner of Twitter, is the richest person and the richest man in the world with a net worth of $195 billion. • After Musk is the chairman of LVMH, Bernard Arnault. • Other billionaires with some of the largest net worths include Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft's Bill Gates, and Oracle's Larry Ellison. • Eight of the top 10 billionaires made their fortunes in technology, with Arnault and Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffett being the exceptions. 1. Elon Musk • Age: 51 • Residence: United States • Co-founder and CEO: Tesla • Net Worth: $195 billion • Tesla Ownership Stake: 13% ($85.3 billion) • Twitter Ownership Stake: 79% ($8.8 billion) • Other Assets: Space Exploration Technologies ($48.9 billion private asset), The Boring Company ($3.33 billion private asset) In July 2022, Musk decided to back out of the Twitter buyout. Twitter filed a lawsuit against Musk to force the buyout to go through. Musk countersued the company but then reversed course and declared he was willing to buy Twitter after all. The deal officially closed in Oct. 2022, giving him a 79% stake in the company. Arnault remained Férinel's chair for a...

Gone are the days where businessmen and women would celebrate a million dollar deal; it's all about the billionaire race now. There are currently 2,755 billionaires in the world, ranging from tech moguls to retail barons, but you need way more than a billion dollars to make it into the top half of the list. The ranking of the world's richest people is ever-changing, but as of August 2021, here are the 20 wealthiest billionaires in the world, as per 1. Bernard Arnault and family ($197.5bn) French luxury group LVMH Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bernard Arnault presents the group's annual results for 2018 at the LVMH headquarters in Paris, on January 29, 2019. Eric Piermont/AFP via Getty Images The fight at the top to be the world's wealthiest billionaire is ongoing, but for now, Arnault is the chairman and chief executive of the world's largest luxury goods company, LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton SE. He and his family are worth a staggering $197.5 billion. Brands under the company include Christian Dior, Givenchy, Fenty, Bulgari and Princess Yachts, while Arnault also holds a stake in the world's second-largest food distributor Carrefour. 2. Jeff Bezos ($192.8bn) Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, founder of space venture Blue Origin and owner of The Washington Post, participates in an event hosted by the Air Force Association September 19, 2018 in National Harbor, Maryland. Bezos talked about innovating in large organizations as well as staying on the cutting edge in the spa...

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