Elon Musk heads and technology dominates the world's richest people will be known in 2021
Despite the stifling economic crises left by the Corona pandemic, it added billions of new billions to the wealth of the world's richest people, as well as increasing the number of billionaires around the world, whose number, according to Forbes magazine, reached about 2755 billionaires.
Only a few, 10 to be exact, currently have $100 billion or more in net worth. Many of these billionaires are founders of tech companies, and most of their fortunes are encased in stocks of the companies they started, so they don't pay taxes on them because they are still unrealized gains, because they haven't sold any of them yet.
For this reason, their net worth can fluctuate greatly from year to year as stock prices move up or down. For example, Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceX and the world's richest person, has seen his net worth increase by $122 billion year-to-date (as of December 8, 2021), while Thanks in large part to the increase in Tesla's stock (he owns 23% of the company), which has risen 46% since the beginning of the year.
Here are the 10 richest people in the world as of December 30, and their wealth (at the time of writing) according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index .
1- Elon Musk
Net worth: $277 billion.
Age: 50 years old.
Place of residence: United States.
Specialization: Technology, Aerospace, Manufacturing.
Musk became famous by founding quality companies such as “Tesla” to produce electric cars, and “SpaceX” concerned with the transfer of satellites and astronauts to outer space, in addition to the “Neuralink” company specialized in manufacturing electronic chips to be implanted in human brains in order to improve their capabilities, and other companies Which is concerned with transportation, solar energy and entertainment.
2- Jeff Bezos
Net worth: $195 billion.
Age: 57 years old.
Place of residence: United States.
Specialization: Technology.
Bezos went from running a simple e-commerce website in his garage in 1994, to becoming the world's second-richest person in 2021. It is reported that the founder of the Amazon e-commerce site has been dominating the list of the world's richest men for some time now. Bezos also has various space, technology and media projects, but his condition is different from Musk, as he does not like to show off much.
3- Bernard Arnault
Net worth: $176 billion.
Age: 72 years old.
Place of residence: France.
Specialty: luxury goods.
Bernard Arnault still maintains the third position with its luxury brands such as "Louis Vuitton", "Dior", "Sephora" and many more.
4- Bill Gates
Net worth: $139 billion.
Age: 66 years old.
Place of residence: United States.
Specialization: Technology.
Bill Gates owns Microsoft, the world's largest software company. In addition to software, the company produces computers, publishes books, and sells video game systems and related peripherals. Bill Gates heads the world's largest private charitable foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, to which he has donated nearly $35.8 billion in Microsoft stock to date.
5- Larry Page
Net worth: $130 billion.
Age: 48 years old.
Place of residence: United States.
Specialization: Technology.
Page is best known in the world of technology and business for being one of the co-founders of Google (now Alphabet) in 1998 along with classmate Sergey Brin. After stepping down from his management position in the company at the end of 2019, he boosted his investments in the space exploration company Planetary Resources, and Paige is also financing two startup companies working on developing flying cars: Kitty Hawk and Opener.
6- Mark Zuckerberg
Net worth: $128 billion.
Age: 37 years old.
Place of residence: United States.
Specialization: Technology.
At the age of only 19, Zuckerberg founded Facebook while studying at Harvard University in 2004. Today, Facebook is the largest social network in the world, and it owns under its umbrella WhatsApp, Instagram and many others, and the company recently changed its name to "Meta". In preparation for entering the era of the virtual world "Metaverse", which is expected to be the new Internet generation.
7- Sergey Brin
Net worth: $125 billion.
Age: 48 years old.
Place of residence: United States.
Specialization: Technology.
Sergey Brin is the co-founder of Google, along with his colleague, who is ranked fifth in the rankings, Larry Page. At the end of 2019, Brin stepped down as president of Alphabet, but he remains a controlling shareholder and a member of the board of directors.
8- Steve Ballmer
Net worth: $122 billion.
Age: 65 years old.
Place of residence: United States.
Specialization: Technology.
Ballmer owns an estimated 4 percent of Microsoft stock, making him the technology company's largest single shareholder. In 2014, shortly after stepping down as Microsoft CEO, Ballmer bought the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team for $2 billion.
9- Warren Buffett
Net worth: $109 billion.
Age: 91 years old.
Place of residence: United States.
Specialization: Diversified Investments.
One of the most successful investors is Warren Buffett, who runs the Berkshire Hathaway Group, which owns more than 60 companies. Buffett bought his first stock at the age of eleven and began filing taxes at the age of fourteen. Buffett made the majority of his fortune by buying shares in companies with easy-to-understand business operations. Camel". Buffett has pledged to donate more than 99% of his fortune.
10- Larry Ellison
Net worth: $109 billion.
Age: 77 years old.
Place of residence: United States.
Specialization: Diversified Investments.
Ellison was the founder, president, and chief technology officer of Oracle, the world's second largest software company, offering a variety of cloud computing software in addition to other software such as Java and Linux. Ellison resigned from the position of CEO of the company in 2014 after nearly 37 years of taking the position, and joined the board of directors of "Tesla" at the end of 2018, after purchasing 3 million shares of the company's shares.
