What is top 10 richest people in the world?

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1. Elon Musk
2. Jeff Bezos
3. Bernard Arnault
4. Gautam Adani
5. Bill Gates
6. Warren Buffett
7. Larry Page
8. Sergey Brin
9. Steve Ballmer
10. Mukesh Ambani

1. Elon Musk

Age: 51
Residence: Texas
Co-founder and CEO: Tesla
Net Worth: $228 billion
Tesla Ownership Stake: 15% ($99.3 billion)
Other Assets: Space Exploration Technologies ($46.9 billion private asset), The Boring Company ($3.33 billion private asset), Twitter ($3.8 billion public asset), $17.8 billion in cash

Elon Musk was born in South Africa and attended a university in Canada before transferring to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned bachelor's degrees in physics and economics. Two days after enrolling in a graduate physics program at Stanford University, Musk deferred attendance to launch Zip2, one of the earliest online navigation services. He reinvested a portion of the proceeds from that startup to create X.com, an online payment system that was sold to eBay ( EBAY ) and eventually became PayPal Holdings.

2. Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos
Age: 58
Residence: Washington
Founder and Executive Chair: Amazon (AMZN)
Net worth: $144 billion
Amazon Ownership Stake: 10% ($121 billion)
Other assets: Blue Origin ($9.15 billion in private assets), The Washington Post ($250 million in private assets), and $14.1 billion in cash.

  In 1994, Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in a garage in Seattle, shortly after hedge fund giant D.E. Shaw
He originally pitched the idea of ​​an online bookstore to his former boss, David E. Shaw, who was not interested.
Although Amazon originally started selling books, it has since evolved into a one-stop shop for everything under the sun and is the world's largest retailer. Amazon's pattern of continued diversification is evident in some of its unexpected expansions, including the acquisition of Whole Foods in 2017 and its entry into the pharmacy business that same year.

3. Bernard Arnault

  Age: 73
Residence: Paris
CEO and Chair: LVMH (LVMUY)
Net worth: $141 billion
Christian Dior Ownership Stake: 97.5% (Total $111 Billion)
Other assets: Moyles & Company equity ($21.3 billion in public assets), Hermes equity (undisclosed stake), and $8.9 billion in cash

Frenchman Bernard Arnault is the chairman and CEO of LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods company. LVMH owns brands including Louis Vuitton, Hennessey, Marc Jacobs, and Sephora.

4. Gautam Adani

  Age: 60
Residence: Gurgaon, India
Founder and Chairman: Adani Group
Net worth: $125 billion
Adani Enterprises, Power and Transmissions Ownership Shares: 75% each ($72.4 billion)
Other assets: 65% Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone ($12.2 billion public assets), 61% Adani Green Energy ($24.5 billion public assets), 37% Adani Total Gas ($16.2 billion public assets)

5. Bill Gates
Age: 66
Residence: Washington
Co-Founder: Microsoft (MSFT)
Net worth: $111 billion
Share owned by Microsoft: 1.3% ($25.6 billion)
Other assets: Cascade Investment LLC ($51.8 billion in public assets), $52.4 billion in cash

6. Warren Buffett
Age: 92
Residence: Nebraska
CEO: Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A)
Net worth: $98.2 billion
Berkshire Hathaway Ownership Stake: 16% ($97.1 billion)
Other assets: $1.03 billion in cash

7. Larry Page
Age: 49
Residence: California
Co-Founder and Board Member: Alphabet (GOOG)
Net worth: $93.6 billion
Alphabet's share of ownership: 6% ($79.5 billion total)
Other assets: $14.1 billion in cash

  8. Sergey Brin
Age: 49
Residence: California
Co-Founder and Board Member: Alphabet (GOOG)
Net worth: $89.6 billion
Alphabet's share of ownership: 6% ($75.4 billion total)
Other assets: $14.2 billion in cash

9. Steve Ballmer
Age: 66
Residence: Washington
Owner: Los Angeles Clippers
Net worth: $88.4 billion
Microsoft ownership stake: 4% ($79.4 billion total)
Other assets: Los Angeles Clippers ($3.16 billion in private assets), $5.8 billion in cash

10. Mukesh Ambani
Age: 65
Residence: Mumbai, India
Owner: Reliance Industries
Net worth: $83.7 billion
Reliance Ownership Stake: 42% ($84.2 billion total)
Other assets: $410 million in real estate