Forbes magazine announced the ranking of the top 400 American richest people in 2022 on September 27. Musk, CEO of Tesla , topped the list for the first time with a net worth of US$251 billion (about 7.98 trillion NTD ).
Tesla CEO Musk topped the list for the first time with a net worth of US$251 billion (about RMB 1.8 trillion),
3rd place last year Facebook founder Zuckerberg's net worth has shrunk by US$76.8 billion, falling out of the top 10 for the first time since 2014.
Bezos, founder of Amazon in the past four years, was affected by inflation and stock market slump. The total value of the top 400 richest people in the United States is $500 billion less than last year, down 11% to $4 trillion.
Electric car manufacturer Tesla (Tesla), CEO of Musk (Elon Musk), topped the top of the 400 list for the first time. Although his career and life were turbulent last year, Musk grew up against the trend. By Tesla's stock price rose 11% and Space Exploration Technology (SpaceX) to raise new funds, his net worth increased by $60.5 billion from last year.
Musk has earned $251 billion, squeezing out the founder of Amazon's champion in the past four years, Jeff Bezos. Bezos fell to second place due to a 27% drop in Amazon's stock price, with a net worth of $151 billion.
Ranked third this year by Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft (Microsoftml2), although he donated another $20 billion to the foundation earlier this year, his ranking rose by 1 place.
4th and 5th places are Oracle Chairman and Technology Director Allison (Larry Ellison) and American legendary investment master "Stock God" Buffett (Warren Buffett). The former is worth $101 billion, while the latter is $97 billion.
Oracle Chairman and Technology Director Allison
"Stock God" Buffett
The worst loss on the 2022 ranking was Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who fell out of the top 10 for the first time in many years and ranked 11th with a net worth of US$57.7 billion.
Facebook founder Zuckerberg
A total of 41 people fell out of this year's list, including Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang (Jerry Yang), Rivian CEO R.J. Scaringe, and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who suffered a heavy loss in cryptocurrency.
Yahoo co-founder Zhiyuan Yang