1. Elon Musk-Net Worth-19,980 crores USD.
Elon Musk is attempting to transform transportation on Earth and in space with his electric car company Tesla and his rocket company SpaceX. He owns 21% of Tesla but has committed more than half of it as loan collateral; Forbes has reduced his ownership to account for the loans. After allegedly making "false claims" about a proposal to take Tesla private, he stepped down as chairman in 2018, prompting an SEC investigation. At the age of 27, Musk became a self-made millionaire. Musk used the money from that sale to start X.com, which eventually morphed into PayPal. After just three years, eBay acquired PayPal for a cool $1.5 billion (around £1.1 billion), of which Musk received a significant portion. After its most recent investment round in February 2021, Musk's rocket firm, SpaceX, is now valued at $74 billion. He was born in South Africa and moved to Canada when he was 17 years old. He came to the United States to study at the University of Pennsylvania as a transfer student.
2. Jeffrey Preston Bezos-Net Worth-19,140 crores USD.
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, and computer engineer. He is the founder and executive chairman of Amazon. In 1994, Jeff Bezos launched the e-commerce behemoth Amazon from his Seattle garage. On July 5, 2021, he stood down as CEO and became executive chairman.
During the epidemic, Amazon saw a 38 percent increase in sales to $386 billion in 2020, as many stayed at home and made online purchases.
Bezos announced in April 2020 that he would donate $100 million to Feed America, an organization that runs food banks and pantries across the United States.
Senators and the general public have chastised Amazon for its handling of warehouse employees during the coronavirus pandemic.
After 25 years of marriage, he and his wife MacKenzie split in 2019, and he gave her a quarter of his 16 percent Amazon ownership. Based on his annual income of about $1.7 million, Bezos makes more than $140,000 a month and $4,700 a day. The billionaire makes about $390 an hour, $6.56 a minute, and $0.10 a second if you break it down further.
3. Bernard Arnault-Net Worth -17,560 crores USD
Bernard Arnault, one of the world's most influential tastemakers, owns a 70-brand empire that includes Louis Vuitton and Sephora.
LVMH concluded a $15.8 billion deal for American jeweler Tiffany & Co in January 2021, which is thought to be the largest luxury brand acquisition ever.
In 2019, LVMH paid $3.2 billion for Belmond, a luxury hospitality company that owns or manages 46 hotels, trains, and river cruises.
Arnault began his career by putting up $15 million from his father's construction business to purchase Christian Dior in 1985.
Frédéric, Delphine, Antoine, and Alexandre, four of Arnault's five children, work for LVMH in various capacities.
4. Bill Gates-Net Worth -12,970 crores USD
Melinda French and Bill Gates Bill and Melinda Gates, who is now divorced, are the founders of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charity foundation. Bill and Melinda announced on Twitter on May 3, 2021, that their 27-year marriage was coming to an end. They will continue to serve as co-chairs of the foundation. Melinda Gates has received at least $5 billion in stock from Bill Gates, co-founded Microsoft with Paul Allen (d. 2018) in 1975. When Gates stepped away from the Microsoft board of directors in March 2020, he held around 1% of the software and computing company's stock. He has invested in dozens of companies, including Canadian National Railway and AutoNation, and is one of the largest owners of farmland in the U.S.To date, Gates has donated $35.8 billion worth of Microsoft stock to the Gates Foundation.
5. Zuckerberg-Net Worth-12,270 crores USD
Zuckerberg's social network, Facebook, served as an information hub during the pandemic, although it has been criticized for propagating vaccination disinformation. A judge dismissed antitrust lawsuits filed by states and the federal government in June 2021, which could have forced Facebook to sell Instagram and WhatsApp.At the age of 19, Zuckerberg founded Facebook at Harvard University in 2004 as a way for students to match names with images of friends.
In May 2012, he brought Facebook public, and he still controls around 15% of the shares. Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, vowed in December 2015 to give away 99 percent of their Facebook stock throughout their lives.
6. Warren Buffett-Net Worth-10,010 crores USD
Warren Buffett dubbed the "Oracle of Omaha," is one of the world's most successful investors. Buffett is the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, a conglomerate that controls more than 60 businesses, including insurer Geico, battery manufacturer Duracell, and restaurant chain Dairy Queen. He began buying the stock at the age of 11 and filing taxes at the age of 13. He is the son of a U.S. politician. He has pledged to give away almost 99 percent of his fortune. So far, he has donated more than $45 billion, most of which has gone to the Gates Foundation and his children's foundations. He and Bill Gates developed the Giving Pledge in 2010, which asked billionaires to pledge to donate at least half of their wealth to philanthropic organizations.
7. Larry Ellison-Net Worth-11,790 crores USD
Larry Ellison is the chairman, chief technology officer, and co-founder of Oracle, of which he controls around 35%. After 37 years as CEO of Oracle, he stepped down in 2014. Oracle has developed by making continuous software acquisitions, the most recent of which was $9.3 billion for NetSuite in 2016.
In May 2016, Ellison gave the University of Southern California $200 million for a cancer treatment center. Ellison invested $300 million in 2012 to purchase practically the whole Hawaiian island of Lanai; he has since established a hydroponic farm and a luxury spa there. After purchasing 3 million Tesla shares earlier that year, Ellison joined Tesla's board of directors in December 2018.
8. Larry Page-Net Worth-11,690 crores USD
In December 2019, Larry Page stepped down as CEO of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, while he remains on the board of directors and a controlling stakeholder. In 1998, he co-founded Google with Sergey Brin, a Stanford Ph.D. student. Page co-invented the PageRank algorithm, which drives Google's search engine, with Brin. Page served as CEO until 2001, when Eric Schmidt took over, and then as CEO of Google's new parent company Alphabet from 2011 until 2015. He is a founder investor in Planetary Resources, a space exploration business, and Kitty Hawk and Opener, two "flying automobile" startups.
9. Sergey Brin-Net worth-11,270 crores USD
In December 2019, Sergey Brin stepped down as president of Alphabet, Google's parent company, but he remains a controlling shareholder and board member.
After meeting at Stanford University while pursuing advanced degrees in computer science, he co-founded Google with Larry Page in 1998. In 2004, Google went public, and in 2015, it began trading as Alphabet, a newly formed parent company. For much of 2019, Brin was missing from general Alphabet events instead of focusing on Alphabet's moonshot research lab X.Brin is rumored to be putting money into a high-tech airship project.
10. Mukesh Ambani -Net Worth-9,700 crores USD
Mukesh Ambani is the chairman and CEO of Reliance Industries, a $74 billion (sales) conglomerate with petrochemicals, oil and gas, telecom, and retail holdings. Reliance was formed in 1966 as a modest textile firm by his late father, Dhirubhai Ambani, a yarn trader. Ambani and his younger brother Anil divided the family fortune after their father died in 2002. With the debut of its 4G phone service Jio in 2016, Reliance started a pricing war in India's hyper-competitive telecom sector. During the Covid-19 siege, Ambani raised more than $20 billion by selling a third of Jio to a group of investors that included Facebook and Google.
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