Billionaires influence everything from political choices to social and economic developments throughout the world. According to Forbes, the world's billionaires number 2,755. Only ten persons, to be precise, have a net worth of $100 billion or more. Many of these billionaires are the founders of technical companies, with a significant amount of their wealth invested in such companies.
Because many billionaires' gains have yet to be realized—that is, they haven't sold any stock or equity and so haven't had to pay taxes yet—their wealth is taxed differently or not at all. Furthermore, while some billionaires have vast quantities of money, many have investments in private assets such as businesses, real estate, or publicly listed companies.
However, because so much of the wealth of the world's billionaires is invested in public stock, their net worth can change dramatically from year to year. For example, Elon Musk, the creator and CEO of Tesla and the world's richest person as of Jan. 19, 2022, saw his net worth increase in 2021 as a result of a rise in Tesla shares (of which he owns 23 percent)—with Tesla shares climbing over 32 percent in 2021.
10. Larry Ellison
Age: 77
Residence: Hawaii
Co-founder, CTO, and Chair: Oracle (ORCL)
Net Worth: $107 billion
Oracle Ownership Stake: 40% ($71.3 billion)
Other Assets: Tesla equity ($15.5 billion public assets) and $17.2 billion in cash
Larry Ellison traveled to California after dropping out of the University of Chicago in 1966 and worked as a computer programmer for many firms throughout the years. First, he worked for the electronics business Ampex in 1973, where he met future collaborators Ed Oates and Bob Miner. Ellison joined Precision Instruments three years later as vice president of research and development.
By 1977, Ellison had co-founded Software Development Laboratories (SDL) with Oates and Miner, and two years later, Oracle, the first commercial relational database application to use Structured Query Language, was published. The database program was so successful that SDL changed its name to Oracle Systems Corporation in 1982. In addition, Ellison joined Tesla's board of directors in December 2018.
9. Steve Ballmer
Age: 65
Residence: Washington
Owner: Los Angeles Clippers
Net Worth: $111 billion
Microsoft Ownership Stake: 4% ($101 billion total)
Other Assets: Los Angeles Clippers ($2.63 billion private assets), $5.03 billion in cash
After Bill Gates persuaded him to leave out of Stanford University's MBA program, Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980. He was the company's thirty-first employee. In the year 2000, Ballmer succeeded Bill Gates as CEO of Microsoft, succeeding him. He maintained the role until 2014 when he stepped down. During his tenure, he orchestrated the $8.5 billion purchase of Skype in 2011.
Ballmer holds around 4% of Microsoft stock, making him the company's greatest individual shareholder. Ballmer bought the Los Angeles Clippers basketball franchise for $2 billion in 2014, shortly after stepping down as Microsoft CEO.
8. Warren Buffett
Age: 91
Residence: Nebraska
CEO: Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
Net Worth: $117 billion
Berkshire Hathaway Ownership Stake: 16% ($115 billion)
Other Assets: $1.13 billion in cash
Warren Buffett, the most well-known living value investor, filed his first tax return in 1944, at the age of 14, showing his earnings from his paper route. He bought his first shares in Berkshire Hathaway, a textile company, in 1962, and by 1965, he had become the majority shareholder. He expanded the company's activities to encompass insurance and other enterprises in 1967. Berkshire Hathaway is currently a $500 billion company, with a single share of stock (Class A shares) worth more than $477,000 as of January 18, 2022.
Buffett branded the "Oracle of Omaha," built the majority of his fortune by investing in firms with straightforward business procedures. While many investors have been flocking to IT businesses, Buffett has taken a more conservative approach, primarily investing in well-known companies that are easy to comprehend, such as IBM and Apple. He's also a skeptic of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Buffett has also bought a long number of firms outright, including Dairy Queen, Duracell, GEICO, and Kraft Heinz, throughout the years.
7. Sergey Brin
Age: 48
Residence: California
Co-founder and Board Member: Alphabet (GOOG)
Net Worth: $119 billion
Alphabet Ownership Stake: 6% ($102 billion total)
Other Assets: $14.7 billion in cash
What sets Google apart from the other companies on this list is that its co-founders have similar total fortunes. Sergey Brin's involvement with Google is comparable to Larry Page's. In 1998, Brin and Page co-founded Google, and Brin served as co-president until Eric Schmidt took over as CEO in 2001. Similarly, after founding Alphabet in 2015, Brin remained the company's president until Sundar Pichai took over as CEO in 2019.
Google, in addition to being a prominent search engine, provides a suite of online tools and services known as Google Workspace, which includes Gmail, Google Drive, Google Calendar, Google Meet, Google Chat, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, and more. Google sells a wide range of electrical gadgets in addition to software, such as its Pixel smartphones, Pixelbook PCs and tablets, Nest smart home devices, and the Stadia gaming platform.
6. Mark Zuckerberg
Age: 37
Residence: California
Co-founder, CEO, and Chair: Meta (FB)
Net Worth: $124 billion
Facebook Ownership Stake: 13% ($115 billion)
Other Assets: $3.5 billion in cash
While still a Harvard University understudy, Mark Zuckerberg helped to create Facebook (now Meta) with individual Harvard University understudies Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes in 2004. As Facebook's reputation grew at various colleges, Zuckerberg left Harvard to focus solely on his growing company. Zuckerberg was the CEO and executive of Meta in the second quarter of 2021, with over 2.9 billion month-to-month dynamic clientele.
Facebook is the world's most popular long-distance informal communication system, allowing users to create an individual profile, connect with family and friends, attend or organize events, and conduct a variety of other activities. Since the site is free to use, advertising accounts for the majority of the organization's revenue.
5. Larry Page
Age: 48
Residence: California
Co-founder and Board Member: Alphabet (GOOG)
Net Worth: $124 billion
Alphabet Ownership Stake: 6% ($107 billion total)
Other Assets: $14.4 billion in cash
Larry Page's defining strength began in a school apartment, like that of a few other techs incredibly wealthy persons on our list. In 1995, while attending Stanford University, Page and his friend Sergey Brin devised a way to improve information extraction capabilities while using the Internet. The trio devised a new type of web indexing technology they dubbed "Backrub," after its ability to inspect "backing joins." From there, Page and Brin continued to build Google in 1998, with the former serving as the company's CEO until his departure in 2001.
Google is one of the most broadly utilized Internet web indexes on the planet, representing more than 92% of all worldwide web-based hunt inquiries. Google (the organization) extended in 2006 by buying YouTube, the biggest stage for client-submitted recordings. The main telephone running the Android working framework, which was made by Android Inc. before Google bought the organization in 2005, was delivered in 2008. From 2015 until 2019, Page was the CEO of Alphabet, the holding organization for which Google is presently a division.
4. Bill Gates
Age: 66
Residence: Washington
Cofounder: Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
Net Worth: $133 billion
Microsoft Ownership Stake: 1.3% ($31.9 billion)
Other Assets: Cascade Investment LLC ($60 billion public and private assets), $56.5 billion in cash
Bill Gates started developing new software originally for microcomputers with childhood friend Paul Allen while at Harvard University in 1975. After the success of this project, Gates dropped out of Harvard as a freshman and co-founded Microsoft with Allen.
Microsoft produces personal computers, publishes books through Microsoft Press, provides email services through its Exchange server, and sells video gaming consoles and associated peripheral devices in addition to being the world's largest software corporation. Initially serving as Microsoft's principal software architect, Gates was promoted to chair in 2008. In 2004, he became a member of Berkshire Hathaway's board of directors. On March 13, 2020, he resigned from both boards.
3. Bernard Arnault
Age: 72
Residence: Paris, France
CEO and Chair: LVMH (LVMUY)
Net Worth: $164 billion
Christian Dior Ownership Stake: 97.5% ($137 billion total)
Other Assets: Moelis & Company equity ($24.6 billion public assets), Hermès equity (undisclosed stake), and $11.2 billion in cash
Bernard Arnault, a French national, is the chairman and CEO of LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods conglomerate. Some of the world's most recognizable brands are owned by this company, including Louis Vuitton, Hennessey, Marc Jacobs, and Sephora.
But it is his large investment in Christian Dior SE, the holding company that owns 41.2 percent of LVMH, that accounts for the majority of his fortune. Through his family-owned holding business, Groupe Familial Arnault, he owns 6.2 percent of Christian Dior SE and another 6.2 percent of LVMH.
2. Jeff Bezos
Age: 58
Residence: Washington
Founder and Executive Chair: Amazon (AMZN)
Net Worth: $187 billion
Amazon Ownership Stake: 10% ($162 billion)
Other Assets: Blue Origin ($9.15 billion private assets), The Washington Post ($250 million private assets), and $16.1 billion in cash
Jeff Bezos launched Amazon.com inside a garage in Seattle in 1994, shortly after resigning from the hedge fund behemoth D.E. Shaw. He had first offered the concept of an online bookshop to his old employer, David E. Shaw, who was uninterested.
Though Amazon.com began as a bookstore, it has now evolved into a one-stop shop for anything under the sun and is perhaps the world's largest retailer. In any case, it's difficult to argue with its self-description as the "Earth's most customer-centric organization." Some of its unexpected developments, like acquiring Whole Foods in 2017 and releasing its own branded over-the-counter medications in August 2017, demonstrate its history of continual diversification.
Due to increasing demand for online shopping as a result of lockdowns, Amazon's stock price soared in 2020. In 2020, the stock was up 76 percent. On July 5, 2021, Bezos resigned as CEO of the e-commerce powerhouse and accepted his new role as executive chair.
1. Elon Musk
Age: 50
Residence: Texas
Co-founder and CEO: Tesla (TSLA)
Net Worth: $269 billion
Tesla Ownership Stake: 18% ($186 billion)
Other Assets: Space Exploration Technologies ($40.3 billion private assets), $4 billion in cash
Elon Musk has been involved with several businesses throughout the years. Musk was originally enrolled at Stanford University, but he postponed his enrollment to establish Zip2, one of the first internet navigation systems. A part of the profits from this venture was subsequently put in the development of X.com, an online payment system that ultimately became PayPal.
Musk became a key financier of Tesla Motors (now Tesla) in 2004, which resulted in his being designated a co-founder and his present role as CEO of the electric car firm. Tesla develops energy storage devices, automotive accessories, goods, and, following the acquisition of SolarCity in 2016, solar power systems in addition to its range of electric automobiles, which includes sedans, sport utility vehicles (SUVs), and the "Cybertruck" announced in 2019.
Tesla's stock price soared by over 740 percent in 2020, propelling Musk to the top of the billionaire list. Tesla became the largest firm to be admitted to the S& P 500 in December 2020.
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