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  1. Oct 5, 2021 · The 400 richest Americans are now 40% richer than they were last year—worth a collective $4.5 trillion—and those ranks have been bolstered by the addition of 44 new entrants, the highest ...

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    • Bernard Arnault & family. $194.8 B 72 France.
    • Jeff Bezos. $193.4 B 57 United States.
    • Elon Musk. $153.2 B 49 United States.
    • Bill Gates. $126.8 B 65 United States.
    • Residence: Seattle
    • Residence: Austin, Texas
    • Residence: Medina, Washington
    • Residence: Palo Alto, California
    • Residence: Omaha
    • Residence: Lanai, Hawaii
    • Residence: Los Altos, California
    • Residence: Hunts Point, Washington
    • Residence: Fort Worth, Texas

    Bezos is the world’s wealthiest person for the fourth straight year, despite temporarily losing that title to Elon Musk in January. The 57-year-old Amazon founder is stepping down as CEO later in 2021. He currently owns just under 11% of the tech giant’s stock.

    The Tesla CEO’s fortune jumped by 514%—(yes, $126.4 billion!) since March 2020 (when Forbesfinalized the 2020 billionaires list), thanks to a soaring private market valuation for his space exploration company SpaceX and even loftier public market enthusiasm for Tesla stock.

    The Microsoft cofounder’s charitable foundation has given or pledged more than $1.75 billion toward Covid-19 relief, with much of it spent on the mass production and management of medical supplies.

    Continued congressional scrutiny and advertising boycotts have yet to dent Zuckerberg’s fortune. Facebook shares rose 80% over the past year, making Zuckerberg more than $42 billion richer than he was a year ago.

    Berkshire Hathaway’s 90-year-old chairman and CEO is $28.5 billion richer than last year, despite giving $2.9 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway stock to charitable foundations in July 2020, thanks to a 36% rise in Berkshire stock. Still his gains were outpaced by others. Buffett is the world’s No. 6 richest this year. It’s the first time since 19...

    The Silicon Valley titan moved to Hawaii during the pandemic. Software giant Oracle, meanwhile, which he cofounded in 1977, has relocated its headquarters from the Bay Area to Texas.

    Page and Brin, who founded Google in 1998, continue to serve as board members of its parent company, Alphabet but otherwise maintain low profiles. Google was under fire in Australia earlier this year for what critics say is the search engine’s role in weakening the media there.

    The former Microsoft CEO’s fortune has climbed by $16 billion since last year as a result of the uptick in Microsoft’s share price. On the philanthropy front, Ballmer and his wife, Connie, donated $54 million to Covid-19 relief efforts in 2020.

    Walton and her siblings, with other family members, collectively own about half of the world’s largest retailer, Walmart. The company’s stock is up more than 5% since last year’s list, thanks in part to efforts to boost online sales to compete with Amazon Prime.

  2. Oct 5, 2021 · The world’s richest person as of the list’s measurement date was Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, with a net worth of $201 billion, though Elon Musk of Tesla and SpaceX has since stolen the crown (at...

  3. Dec 16, 2021 · Forbes’ Real-Time Billionaires tracks the daily ups and downs of the world’s richest people, among them the wealthiest Americans in finance and investments. ThinkAdvisor identified the 15...

  4. Sep 27, 2022 · The Forbes 400 is now worth $4 trillion, down $500 billion from last year’s record-breaking $4.5 trillion—but still the second-highest Forbes has recorded since the list’s inception in 1982.

  5. Apr 5, 2022 · W ar, pandemic and sluggish markets hit the world’s billionaires this year. There are 2,668 of them on Forbes’ 36th-annual ranking of the planet’s richest people—87 fewer than a year ago. They’re...

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