Elon Musk tops the list of the world's billionaires with a net worth of over 65 trillion yen, followed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in second place
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Below are the top 20 richest people in the world and their estimated net worth:
◆1st place: Elon Musk : $429.2 billion (about 65.64 trillion yen)
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Born in South Africa, Musk moved to Canada at the age of 18 and obtained citizenship through his Canadian-born mother. After enrolling at Queen's University in Canada, he transferred to the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, where he earned a bachelor's degree in economics and physics. While attending Stanford University, he founded Zip2 , an online city guide software company, which he later sold to Compaq for $307 million (approximately 47 billion yen). He then founded the direct bank X.com, which merged with Confinity in 2000 to become the payment service PayPal. PayPal was also sold to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 billion (approximately 230 billion yen), and the profits from this sale were used to found the space development company SpaceX.
Musk, an early investor in Tesla, became chairman of the company in 2004, then became a product designer and CEO in 2008. He co-founded OpenAI in 2015, founded Neuralink, a brain-machine interface developer, and The Boring Company, a tunnel-drilling company, in 2016, and acquired Twitter (now X) in 2022. He has been involved in the founding and acquisition of many well-known companies and organizations.
In addition, Mr. Musk has become the world's richest man , surpassing Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, in 2021. A website called 'You Vs. A Billionaire' has also been released, where you can experience the difference between Mr. Musk's and your financial sense.
'You Vs. A Billionaire' where you can feel the difference between the world's richest man Elon Musk and your own financial sense - GIGAZINE
2nd place: Jeff Bezos : $242.5 billion (approximately 37.9 trillion yen)
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Bezos, known as the founder of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce and cloud computing company, was born in Albuquerque, USA, grew up in Houston and Miami, and earned a degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University. Founded in 1994, Amazon was originally an online bookstore, and later expanded into various businesses such as video and audio streaming and cloud computing.
In 2017, Bezos surpassed Microsoft founder Bill Gates to become the richest man in the world , and remained the world's richest man until he was overtaken by Musk in 2021. Videos that show how rich Bezos is have also been released, and his 'richness,' which is difficult for ordinary people to imagine, is visualized in various ways.
A movie that clearly shows how rich Bezos is, such as 'Even if you work for 2000 years at an hourly wage of 800,000 yen, you can't catch up with the wealth of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' is now available - GIGAZINE
3. Larry Ellison : $219.6 billion
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Oracle co-founder Ellison was a brilliant student of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was named the best chemistry student of the year, but dropped out in his second year after his adoptive mother died. He then studied physics and mathematics at the University of Chicago, where he encountered computer design, and after working as a computer programmer for several companies, he founded the Software Development Laboratory (SDL) in 1977. SDL would later become Oracle.
Ellison is a billionaire who was raised in poverty by blue-collar adoptive parents, and is known for rising to fame through a business strategy of 'identifying trends before anyone else.'
A simple strategy common to 8 billionaires who went from poverty to success - GIGAZINE
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Ellison also owns 98% of Lanai, the sixth largest island in the Hawaiian Islands.
4. Mark Zuckerberg : $217.9 billion
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Zuckerberg, co-founder of Meta, co-founded the social media service Facebook with his roommate while attending Harvard University. In 2008, at the age of 23, he became the world's youngest billionaire and has consistently ranked among the world's richest people ever since.
Meta develops a variety of products and services, including AI and social media, and is strengthening its investment in the smart glasses field, such as unveiling a prototype of AR glasses ' Orion ' in September 2024. An interview with Zuckerberg in which he passionately discusses his theory on 'why smart glasses will replace smartphones' has also been released.
Why does Meta's Mark Zuckerberg think smart glasses will replace smartphones? - GIGAZINE
5. Bernard Arnault and his family: $173.1 billion
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Arnault is a French-born businessman and the founder, chairman and CEO of LVMH , the world's largest luxury goods company. LVMH is a multinational conglomerate formed as a joint venture between fashion brand Louis Vuitton and Moët Hennessy, which is in turn a joint venture between champagne brand Moët & Chandon and cognac house Hennessy .
6. Larry Page : $158.3 billion
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Page was born to a father who is a professor of computer science at Michigan State University and a mother who is a lecturer in computer programming at Lyman Briggs College at the same university, and grew up in an environment where computers and science and technology magazines were close by from an early age. In 1998, he co-founded Google with Sergey Brin, and the company has since grown into one of the world's leading IT companies.
Although Mr. Page is the founder of Google, he handed over the CEO position to Eric Schmidt in 2001. After that, Mr. Page returned to the CEO position of Google in 2011, but the unknown behind-the-scenes story of the 10 years leading up to his return is summarized in the following article.
Google's Larry Page's return as CEO: what's going on behind the scenes - GIGAZINE
7. Sergey Brin : $151.1 billion
Brin and Page founded Google in 1998. He immigrated to the United States from the former Soviet Union at the age of 6 and followed in his father and grandfather's footsteps, earning a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park. He then enrolled at Stanford University in 1993 and earned a PhD in computer science. While at Stanford, he met Page, created a web search engine, and launched Google.
Brin, one of the founders of Google, will still be working at Google 'almost every day' as of 2024.
8. Warren Buffett : $142.9 billion
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Buffett graduated from the University of Nebraska at the age of 19, and after starting various business ventures and investment partnerships, he founded the investment company Buffett Partnership in 1956. The Buffett Partnership acquired textile manufacturer Berkshire Hathaway and grew it into a multinational conglomerate. Buffett is also known as the 'God of Investment' due to his track record of successful investments.
Buffett is known as the god of investment, but he also has a documentary series called 'Becoming Warren Buffet' that focuses on his private life, giving us a glimpse into the unknown side of one of the world's most powerful billionaires.
A documentary that focuses on the private life of investment god 'Warren Buffett' and how he became one of the world's richest people - GIGAZINE
9. Steve Ballmer : $130.6 billion
Ballmer served as CEO of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014. He was hired by Microsoft's Bill Gates in 1980, dropped out of Stanford University's MBA program and joined Microsoft. Ballmer then became president of Microsoft in 1998 and succeeded Gates as CEO in 2000.
In addition, in Microsoft's Windows, if some abnormality occurs, the screen turns blue and an error message is displayed, which is called a '
Who is the creator of the blue screen that appears on Windows? - GIGAZINE
10th place: Jen-Hsun Huang : $119.9 billion (approximately 18.33 trillion yen)
Huang emigrated to the United States from Taiwan as a child, earned a master's degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and co-founded NVIDIA in 1993. NVIDIA surpassed Apple to become the world's most valuable company in October 2024.
The following article summarizes how Huang built NVIDIA into one of the world's leading semiconductor companies.
How did NVIDIA's CEO Jensen Huang, who wears an impressive leather jacket, grow NVIDIA into a global giant? - GIGAZINE
11th place: Amancio Ortega, $118.1 billion (approximately 18.6 trillion yen)
Ortega, a native of Spain, is the founder of
Ortega is also a school dropout who became a billionaire.
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12. Samuel Robson Walton and his family: $112.4 billion
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Samuel Robson Walton is the eldest son of Walmart co-founder Sam Walton and served as Walmart's chairman from 1992 to 2015. He is also known as the principal owner of
Walmart is the world's largest supermarket chain that handles a wide variety of products, from groceries to home appliances. However, an article summarizing what would happen if Walmart were to withdraw from a small rural town has also been published, and by reading the following, you can realize the magnitude of its influence.
What will happen to the town left behind when the large shopping mall withdraws? - GIGAZINE
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13. Jim Walton and his family: $111.1 billion
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Jim Walton is the third son of Walmart co-founder Sam Walton and owns over 152 million shares of Walmart stock as of September 2016.
14th place: Bill Gates : $107.4 billion (approximately 16.42 trillion yen)
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Gates founded Microsoft in 1975. He provides funding for various technologies through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a charitable organization he established with his ex-wife, Melinda.
Below is an article in which Gates talks about his 'highest-ever' investment.
What is the investment that Bill Gates said was the 'biggest ever'? - GIGAZINE
15. Michael Dell : $106.3 billion
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Dell is the founder of Dell, the world's largest technology infrastructure company. Born to stockbroker Lorraine Charlotte and orthodontist Alexander Dell, he took his high school equivalency exam at the age of eight and invested in stocks and precious metals with money earned from part-time jobs in his early teens.
16th place: Michael Bloomberg : $104.7 billion (about 16.1 trillion yen)
Bloomberg co-founded the financial, software, data and media company
Bloomberg is a billionaire, yet pays zero income tax, and his tax-saving methods have been covered by the media.
How do America's super-rich legally avoid paying income taxes?
17th place: Alice Walton : $103.4 billion (approximately 15.8 trillion yen)
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By Stephen Ironside
Alice Walton is the daughter of Sam Walton, founder of Walmart Inc. Earlier in her career, she worked as an equity analyst at First Commerce Corporation and as an investment manager at Arvest Bank Group. In 1988, she founded the investment banking firm
18. Mukesh Ambani : $99.6 billion
Ambani is an Indian billionaire and chairman of the Indian multinational conglomerate
Jio, a subsidiary of Jio Platforms, a digital services company and the communications division of Reliance Industries, is a communications company launched by Ambani in 2016. The following article summarizes how Jio, which has attracted large investments from Google and Facebook, came into being.
Who is Jio, the Indian company that Google and Facebook are investing in and partnering with? - GIGAZINE
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19. Carlos Slim Helu and his family: $81.1 billion
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Helu is a Mexican businessman and founder of the global conglomerate Grupo Carso , whose net worth is estimated to be equivalent to about 7% of Mexico's GDP.
In 2007, Hell surpassed Gates to become the number one billionaire on Forbes' list of billionaires.
20. Françoise Bettencourt Mayer and her family: $74.9 billion
Bettencourt Mayer is a French businesswoman, the granddaughter of L'Oréal founder Eugène Schueller , and the only child and heir of Liliane Henriette Charlotte Bettencourt , who was a major shareholder in L'Oréal.
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