The list of wealthy people in the world will vary every year. Here is the list of the 10 richest people in the world on September 16, 2022.
1.Elon Reeve Musk - US$264 billion
Tesla (Elon Musk) is committed to achieving changes in land and space transportation through electric vehicles and rockets.
Currently, his net worth is $264 billion. Musk's rocket company SpaceX is now worth nearly $100 billion. Tesla has become the world's most valuable automaker with a high market value of US$800 billion in October 2021.
2. Jeff Bezos - 150 billion
Amazon Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $150 billion and is the second richest person on the planet today. Even after he divorced his wife MacKenzie in 2019 and transferred a quarter of his Amazon stake to her. In 1994, Bezos founded the behemoth Amazon in the garage of Seattle . The e-commerce giant has benefited from the coronavirus pandemic, with more and more people shopping online.
3. Gautam Adani Family - $149 billion
Adani Group sponsor Gautam Adani dispersed his millions of commercial wealth into energy, logistics, agriculture, aerospace and other fields. Adani Group is a multinational enterprise group engaged in the operation and development of Indian ports, making Adani the richest man in Asia.
4. Bernard Arnault (Bernard Arnault) - US$139 billion
LVMH French chairman and CEO, he is the fourth richest man in the world today. His net worth is $139 billion, from his empire in over 70 brands including Louis Vuitton and Sephora . He is the richest man in Europe, and his assets increased by $100 billion in wealth in December last year.
5. Bill Gates - $113 billion
As co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates has a net worth of $113 billion. After founding the software giant Microsoft with Paul Allen , Bill Gates finally sold it, retaining only 1% of the shares in the company and investing the rest in stocks and other assets. Bill Gates joined the $100 billion club in April last year, when Microsoft's stock soared after earnings. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest private charitable foundation in the world.
6. Warren Buffet ——$96.6 billion
Warren Buffet (Warren Buffet) is known as the stock god and is one of the successful investors in history. He runs Berkshire Hathaway and owns more than 60 companies, including the well-known Geico Insurance Company, Duracell Company and Dairy Queen Restaurant. His net worth is $96.6 billion. As the son of a U.S. Congressman, he bought his first stock at the age of 11.
7. Larry Page - $94.9 billion
Google Co-founder Larry Page has a net worth of $94.9 billion, ranking seventh among the world's wealthy people. He also invested in the well-known space exploration company planetary resource company (Planetary Resources), and funded Flying Car, startup Kitty Hawk and Opener.
8.Mukesh Ambani-$91 billion
Reliance Industries' founder and chairman of interest involves petrochemical, oil and natural gas , retail and telecommunications. Reliance’s launch of 4G telephone service in the Indian telecom market in 2016 triggered a price war, triggering a strong whirlpool and causing multiple networks to be shut down.
9. Sergey Brin - $90.8 billion
As co-founder and member of the board of directors of Alphabet, Sergey Brin has a net worth of $90.8 billion, ranking eighth among the wealthy people in the world.He co-founded Google in 1998 with Larry Page, which went public in 2004 and became Alphabet in 2015.
10. Larry Ellison - $90.3 billion
Larry Ellison ) has a net worth of $90.3 billion, mainly from the software company he founded in 1977, Oracle (Oracle ). In 2014, he resigned as CEO of the company and has since served only as chairman of the company's board of directors and chief technical consultant. He has been on Tesla's board of directors since December 2018, and earlier that year he bought 3 million shares of Tesla. He owns almost all the land on the island of Lanai, Hawaii.
