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Forbes magazine published the World Richest person as of January 2024, Forbes listed about 2640 billionaires around the globe. The wealthiest person in the world is Elon Musk CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and X(twitter) with a net worth of $251.3B, followed by Bernard Arnault, Mark Zuckerberg the CEO of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp landed at the fifth spot.
Elon Musk top as the richest person in the world in January 2024
Below are the top 10 richest person in the world.
10. Steve Ballmer – rank 10th in the list with a net worth of $112.2 billion, his source of income Microsoft Investments, Ballmer was Bill Gates classmate and join Microsoft as employee in 1980.
After retiring in Microsoft he purchased an NBA team the Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion on August 12, 2014, the team now valued $4.65 billion.
9. Sergey Brin – rank 9th in the list with $112.4 billion, he cofounded Alphabet a parent company of Google in 1998 along with fellow Standford Student Larry Page.
8. Larry Page – rank 8th in the list with a net worth of $117.2 billion, he cofounded Alphabet (Google) along with Sergey Brin a fellow Standford PHD student. Google is the commonly used search engine worldwide other competitor such as Bing (Microsoft), Yahoo (Verizon).
7. Warren Buffett – ranks 7th richest person in the world with a net worth of $118.6 billion, his source of income is Berkshire Hathaway, he owns dozens of companies such as Geico, Duracell and a restaurant chain Dairy Queen.
6. Bill Gates – rank sixth of the World richest person in the world with a net worth of $119.6 billion, he owns the Microsoft company. He was the richest person from 1995 to 2017 except for the year (2008, 2010-2013)
Because of his donations OF $59 billion to the Gates Foundation in which Bill and his wife established the foundation in 2000, Jeff Bezos overtake him as the world richest person in the year 2018.
Elon Musk top as the richest person in the world in January 2024
5. Mark Zuckerberg – rank fifth as the world richest person in the world with a net worth of $125.3 billion, Zuckerberg cofounded Meta formerly known as Facebook in 2004. Zuckerberg bought Instagram for only $1 billion as it was a threat for Facebook in 2012 and bought messaging app (WhatsApp) for $19 billion in 2014.
4. Larry Ellison – is the 4th richest person in the world with a net worth of $135.3 billion, Ellison cofounded Oracle, a software firm that allows users to store and organize their own data in the cloud.
3. Jeff Bezos – ranks third with a net worth of $168.4 billion, Bezos created and co-founded Amazon in 1994, he also had his Space Exploration Company name Blue Origin.
2. Bernard Arnault – is the second richest person in the world with a net worth of $200.7 billion, his source of income is LVMH/Luxury goods, among its notable luxury brand is the Louis Vuitton.
1. Elon Musk – still the richest person in the world with a net worth of $251.3 billion. Elon Musk is the owner of tech giant X formerly know as (Twitter), Musk also the CEO of Tesla and the SpaceX.
| Net Worth in Billion | |
1. Elon Musk (52 years old) |
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2. Bernard Arnault (74 years old) |
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3. Jeff Bezos (59 years old) |
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4. Larry Ellison (79 years old) |
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5. Mark Zuckerberg (39 years old) |
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6. Bill Gates (68 years old) |
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7. Warren Buffett (93 years old) |
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8. Larry Page (50 years old) |
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9. Sergey Brin (50 years old) |
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10. Steve Ballmer (67 years old) |
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