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Browse today’s rankings of the wealthiest people and families globally. Discover the net worth, age, and other information about the richest people in the world.
- Gautam Adani
Tuesday’s buying frenzy pushed up Adani’s net worth by $6...
- Larry Ellison
Larry Ellison is chairman, chief technology officer and...
- Zhang Yiming
Real Time Net Worth. as of 11/4/24 . Reflects change since 5...
- Forbes Press Room
Forbes Press Room - Forbes Real Time Billionaires List - The...
- 2023 List
Forbes presents the 2024 World's Billionaires List. View the...
- Gautam Adani
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 ...
- Source: Koch Industries
- Source: Amazon
- Source: Video Games
- Source: Computer Services, Real Estate
- Source: Defense
- Source: Energy, Sports
- Source: Streaming Technologies
- Source: Security Software
- Source: Investments
- Source: Private Equity
Kochand her three children inherited a 42% stake in Koch Industries from her husband, David, who died in August at age 79. An Iowa native who graduated from the University of Central Arkansas, she moved to New York in the 1980s and worked as an assistant to designer Adolfo. In 1991, friends set up Julia and David on a blind date, which did not go w...
As part of her divorce settlement with Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Bezosreceived a quarter of Jeff’s stake in Amazon—which made her not only the third-richest woman in America but also the fourth-richest woman on the planet. Bezos has signed the Giving Pledge, promising to donate more than half of her wealth to charitable causes. That could move her down...
Sweeney founded video game company Epic Games in 1991 in his parents’ house and released the game ZZT at age 21. Today over 250 million people, mostly boys ages 10 to 25, have played his game Fortnitesince it launched in July 2017. The company held the finals for its inaugural Fortnite World Cup in July at New York City’s Arthur Ashe Stadium, where...
Perot’s late husband, tech pioneer and presidential candidate H. Ross Perot, died in July at age 89 after battling leukemia. She met him on a blind date while he was a student at the U.S. Naval Academy. She gave her husband a $1,000 check to start Electronic Data Systems, which he sold to General Motors in 1984 for $2.5 billion.
Blue is chairman and CEO of $2.7 billion defense company General Atomics. Its 2018 revenues were $2.7 billion, according to a U.S. government database. The company is best known as the manufacturer of the Predator drone, one of the first drones to fly over Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks. He and his brother Linden bought General Atomics when it ...
McNairowns the Houston Texans, which her late husband, Bob McNair (who died in November 2018), founded in 1999 after paying $600 million for the NFL franchise. Bob McNair initially built a fortune through Cogen Technologies, a power generation company he founded in the early ’80s and sold to Enron for $1.5 billion in 1999.
Woodis the founder and CEO of Roku, a tech company that enables users to stream internet shows from Netflix and others on their TVs. A serial entrepreneur, he also founded digital video recorder firm Replay-TV in 1997 and sold it in 2001. A year later, he launched Roku, which now has more than 27 million customers who streamed about 24 billion hour...
Before founding cybersecurity software firm ZScaler in 2008, Chaudhry started four other tech companies that were all acquired. ZScaler, in which Chaudhry has a 46% stake, went public in March 2018, and its shares have since doubled. Raised in India, the first time Chaudhry was on an airplane was a one-way flight to the U.S. to attend the Universit...
For six decades, Florida optometrist Wertheimhas invested the profits from his company Brain Power, which manufactures eyeglass tints, in the stock market. He is the largest individual shareholder in aerospace firm Heico.
Bravo got his start on Wall Street in 1998. Now his buyout firm Thoma Bravo is one of the most successful and fastest-growing private equity managers in the world, with $39 billion in assets under management. Operating out of San Francisco, he has perfected the software buyout.
Oct 5, 2021 · The aggregate wealth of The Forbes 400 reached a record-breaking $4.5 trillion, and the minimum net worth needed to make the cut for this year’s list rose to a record high of $2.9 billion, up...
3 days ago · Bloomberg Billionaires Index. View profiles for each of the world’s 500 richest people, see the biggest movers, and compare fortunes or track returns. As of October 30, 2024. The Bloomberg...
In the 37th annual Forbes list of the world's billionaires, the list included 2,640 billionaires with a total net wealth of $12.2 trillion, down 28 members and $500 billion from 2022. Over half of the list is less wealthy compared to the previous year, including Elon Musk, who fell from No. 1 to No. 2. [7]
Oct 4, 2016 · The 35th edition of the legendary Forbes 400 list is out today, and the estimated net worth of the nine entrants from the Las Vegas area adds up to a cool $50 billion. The Vegas Nine, for want of a better label, saw their collective stash rise $6 billion, or 13%, in a year.
