Who are Top 10 Richest Person in the World 2022 ?

In this article, We are listing the Top 10 Richest Person in the World 2022

The Forbes World’s Billionaires list is an annual ranking by Forbes magazine of the world’s wealthiest people, compiled using a methodology that views assets from a broader perspective than merely net worth. The list was first published in 1987.

Elon Musk, the owner of Tesla, is the richest person, valued at $232.4 billion. The following people rank among the top 10 richest people in the world, according to Forbes’ most recent ranking.

1. Elon Musk – ($232.4 Billion)

• Elon Musk cofounded six companies including electric car maker 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.
• In July 2022, Musk announced he was terminating the deal over bot concerns. Twitter sued and the parties will go to court in October.

Personal Stats

• Age : 51
• Source of Wealth : Tesla, SpaceX, Self Made
• Self-Made Score 8
• Philanthropy Score1
• Residence :Austin, Texas
• Citizenship :United States
• Marital Status : In Relationship
• Children :10
• Education : Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Pennsylvania

2.Bernard Arnault & Family – ($167.7 Billion)

With a net worth of $167.7 billion, Bernard Arnault, the chairman and CEO of LVMH, comes in second place. More than 70 brands are owned by the family. According to Business Insider, he is the richest person in Europe and made $100 billion in fortune last year.

3. Jeff Bezos – ($124 Billion)

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, is the third richest person with a net worth of $162.7 billion. The e-commerce titan is still the third richest person after giving much of his wealth to his ex-wife after their divorce.

4. Gautam Adani and family – ($142.7 Billion)

India’s Gautam Adani has split the Adani Group into a number of industries, including energy, logistics, and aerospace. He is Asia’s richest man and the fourth richest person in the world, with a net worth of $142.7 billion.

5. Bill Gates – ($113.4 Billion)

Bill Gates, a well-known tech tycoon, recently gave a million dollars to his foundation while pledging to ultimately drop off the list of the world’s richest individuals. He is currently worth $113.4 billion. The largest private charitable foundation in the world is his, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

6.Larry Ellison – ($108.5 Billion)

Larry Ellison, the creator of the software company Oracle, is ranked sixth with a net worth of $108.5 billion. After purchasing three million shares of Tesla in 2018, according to Business Insider, Ellison has also served on the company’s board. Ellison owns almost the entire island of Lanai in Hawaii.

7. Warren Buffet – ($103.4 Billion)

The most successful investor of all time is regarded as Warren Buffet. He runs a business that also owns more than 60 other businesses. At the age of 11, Buffet purchased his first stock, according to Business Insider.

8. Larry Page – ($85.5 Billion)

• Larry Page stepped down as CEO of Alphabet, the parent of Google, in December 2019 but remains a board member and a controlling shareholder.
• He cofounded Google in 1998 with fellow Stanford Ph.D. student Sergey Brin.
• With Brin, Page invented Google’s PageRank algorithm, which powers the search engine.
• Page was CEO until 2001, when Eric Schmidt took over, and then from 2011 until 2015, when he became CEO of Google’s new parent company Alphabet.
• He is a founding investor in space exploration company Planetary Resources and is also funding “flying car” startups Kitty Hawk and Opener.

9. Sergey Brin – ($82.1 Billion)

• Sergey Brin stepped down as president of Alphabet, parent company of Google, in December 2019 but remains a controller shareholder and a board member.
• He cofounded Google with Larry Page in 1998 after the two met at Stanford University while studying for advanced degrees in computer science.
• Google went public in 2004 and began trading as Alphabet, a newly created parent company, in 2015.
• Brin was absent from public Alphabet events for much of 2019; he spent his time on Alphabet’s moonshot research lab X.
• Brin is reportedly funding a high-tech airship project.

Personal Stats

• Age : 49
• Source of Wealth : Google, Self Made
• Self-Made Score 9
• Philanthropy Score2
• Residence : Los Altos, California
• Citizenship : United States
• Marital Status :Separated
• Children3
• Education : Master of Science, Stanford University; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Maryland, College Park

10. Mukesh Ambani – ($86.5 Billion)

• Mukesh Ambani chairs and runs $104 billion (revenue) Reliance Industries, which has interests in petrochemicals, oil and gas, telecom and retail.
• Reliance was founded by his late father Dhirubhai Ambani, a yarn trader, in 1966 as a small textile manufacturer.After his father’s death in 2002, Ambani and his younger sibling Anil divvied up the family empire.
• Reliance sparked a telecom price war with the launch of 4G phone and broadband service Jio in 2016. Today, it has more than 420 million subscribers and is readying to launch 5G services.
• Ambani is pivoting Reliance into green energy. The company will be investing $80 billion over the next 10-15 years on renewable energy and building a new complex next to its refinery.
• Ambani has spelled out his succession plan: son Akash is now chairman of Reliance Jio; daughter Isha oversees retail and younger son Anant has been inducted into the new energy business

Personal Stats

• Age : 65
• Source of Wealth diversified
• Residence  : Mumbai, India
• Citizenship :  India
• Marital Status :  Married
• Children  :  3
• Education : Drop Out, Stanford University; Bachelor of Science in Engineering, University of Mumbai

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