Elon Musk
CEO, Tesla
$199.8B
Real Time Net Worth
as of 11/14/22
#1 in the world today
$219B
2022 Billionaires Net Worth
as of 4/5/22
• Elon Musk cofounded six companies including electric carmaker Tesla, rocket producer SpaceX and tunneling startup Boring Company.
• He owns about 25% of Tesla between stock and options, but has pledged more than half his stock as collateral for loans.
• SpaceX, founded in 2002, is worth $127 billion after a funding round in May 2022; it quadrupled its value in three years.
• Boring Company, which aims to defeat traffic, raised $675 million in April 2022 at a $5.7 billion valuation.
• Twitter's board agreed to sell the company to Musk for $44 billion in April 2022, after he disclosed a 9.1% stake and threatened a hostile takeover.
• The deal closed in October 2022 after Musk tried to back out and Twitter sued. Musk now owns an estimated 82% of the company.
• Did you know
• Musk, who says he's worried about population collapse, has nine children with three women, including triplets and two sets of twins.
• As a kid in South Africa, Musk taught himself to code; he sold his first game, Blaster, for about $500.
• In Their Own Words
• I operate on the physics approach to analysis. You boil things down to the first principles or fundamental truths in a particular area, and then you reason up from there
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Jeff Bezos
Chairman And Founder, Amazon
$124.1B
Real Time Net Worth
as of 11/14/22
#4 in the world today
$171B
2022 Billionaires Net Worth
as of 4/5/22
• Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his garage in Seattle. He stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman in July 2021.
• He now owns a bit less than 10% of the company.
• He and his wife MacKenzie divorced in 2019 after 25 years of marriage and he transferred a quarter of his then-16% Amazon stake to her.
• Bezos has donated more than $400 million worth of stock to nonprofits in 2022, though it's unclear which organizations received those shares.
• Bezos owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company developing rockets; he briefly flew to space in one in July 2021.
• Growing up, Jeff Bezos worked summers on his grandfather's ranch repairing Caterpillar tractors.
• Bezos met Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998 and managed to become one of the company's first angel investors, putting in an estimated $250,000.
• In Their Own Words
• I didn't think I'd regret trying and failing. And I suspected I would always be haunted by a decision to not try at all
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Bernard Arnault & family
Chairman And CEO, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton
$176.6B
Real Time Net Worth
as of 11/14/22
#2 in the world today
$158B
2022 Billionaires Net Worth
as of 4/4/22
• Bernard Arnault oversees the LVMH empire of some 70 fashion and cosmetics brands, including Louis Vuitton and Sephora.
• In January 2021, LVMH acquired American jeweler Tiffany & Co for $15.8 billion, believed to be the biggest luxury brand acquisition ever.
• LVMH spent $3.2 billion in 2019 for luxury hospitality group Belmond, which owns or manages 46 hotels, trains and river cruises.
• His father made a small fortune in construction; Arnault got his start by putting up $15 million from that business to buy Christian Dior in 1985.
• Four of Arnault's five children work in corners of the LVMH empire: Frédéric, Delphine, Antoine and Alexandre.
• Arnault apparently wooed his wife, Helene Mercier, a concert pianist, by playing Chopin and other classical composers on the piano.
• Every Saturday, Arnault visits as many as 25 stores -- including both his and those of his competitors.
• In Their Own Words
• I see myself as an ambassador of French heritage and French culture. What we create is emblematic. It's linked to Versailles, to Marie Antoinette.
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