Tesla Chief Executive Officer and Twitter boss, Elon Musk, has been ranked as the richest man in the world.
The SpaceX founder, CEO, according to the latest release by World of Statistics, is currently worth $224 billion. He is as well the 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’ latest report.
While French business magnate, Bernard Arnault, is rated second on the list with an estimated worth of $191b, Amazon Founder, Jeff Bezos, is ranked third world’s richest man with $163b worth.
Arnault is an investor, and art collector. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury goods company.
Bill Gates, on the other hand, came fourth on the list with $130b worth.
Gates is an American billionaire business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He co-founded the software giant Microsoft along with his childhood friend Paul Allen.
Coming fifth is Larry Ellison whose worth is estimated at $127b.
The others on the top 20 list 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
