The World’s richest people have been ranked and Twitter Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk, remains the number one.
According to the World of Statistics, Musk is worth $224 billion.
The business magnate and investor is the founder, chairman, CEO and chief technology officer of SpaceX, angel investor.
He is also the CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc., owner, chairman and CTO of X Corp, founder of the Boring Company, a co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI, and the president of the Musk Foundation.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, he has an estimated net worth of US$239 billion as of July 2023, and $248.8 billion according to Forbes.
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Among the top five richest men are: Bernard Arnault: $191b, Jeff Bezos: $163b, Bill Gates: $130b and Larry Ellison: $127b.
Others in the ranking include:
Warren Buffet: $120b
Larry Page: $117b
Steve Ballmer: $112b
Sergey Brin: $111b
Mark Zuckerberg: $110b
Mukesh Ambani: $96.4b
Carlos Slim: $92.2b
Francoise Bettencourt Meyers: $90.6b
Amancio Ortega: $74.2b
Jim Walton: $73.0b
Rob Walton: $71.0b
Alice Walton: $70.0b
Charles Koch: $65.2b
Julia Flesher Koch: $65.2b
Gautam Adani: $63.9b
Zhong Shanshan: $63.5b
Michael Dell: $62.4b
John Mars: $56.1b
Meanwhile, Forbes reported that Elon Musk owns approximately 23% of Tesla, according to a regulatory filing in April 2023.
As Tesla’s largest individual shareholder, owning a whopping 412.6 million shares, Musk witnessed shares surge to $281.38 as the market closed, with the initial share price standing at approximately $277, according to market watch.
Musk’s SpaceX, founded in 2002, currently holds a valuation of $127 billion after a successful funding round in May 2022, representing a remarkable fourfold increase in just three years.
Looking back, Tesla stock hit a two-year low in November, with shares falling to $167.87, largely influenced by a stock price drop that occurred following Musk’s acquisition of Twitter.
