Top 10 Richest People In The World (2022)

today we'll be looking at all those people soaking in the sun on a yacht cruising the high seas who just worked so hard to get there today we're going over the top 10 richest people in 2022. number 10. larry ellison 87.2 billion dollars larry ellison like many others on this list attributes his vast fortune to the development of technology after dropping out of college in 1977 he created oracle and built it from a startup to one of the largest software and database firms in the world oracle's current market valuation is 187.7 billion dollars and allison has kept more than 40 percent of the company's stock allison amassed his fortune independently but due to considerable investments he made in tesla before the company's stratospheric rise he received a net return of more than 1 000 in 2018 he joined tesla's board of directors however in june tesla announced that ellison would step out however he still owns around 1.5 of tesla's outstanding shares according to the bloomberg list of billionaires ellison's net worth stands at 87.2 billion but this net worth has risen a considerable amount of 921 million in just the last two or three months number 9. steve balmer 91.9 billion former microsoft ceo and current owner of the los angeles clippers balmer occupies the ninth spot on this list his reaches are the result of both his gains with the team and his continued ownership of microsoft stock after dropping out of stanford's mba program at 24 balmer joined microsoft as employee number 30 in 1980. spearheaded microsoft's efforts to catch up to google in search capabilities and apple in mobile phones in 2014 he retired from microsoft as a billionaire in the same year he paid two billion dollars for the los angeles clippers of the national basketball association since 2014 he has increased his philanthropy contributing more than two billion dollars to a donor-advised fund with the goal of bringing americans out of poverty in 2018 he invested 59 million dollars in social solutions a software developer for non-profits and government agencies and today his net worth sits at a hefty 91.9 billion dollars number eight sergey brin 95.1 billion dollars don't be surprised that sergey brin has made this list at number eight after all where would we be on the internet without the guy along with larry page brynn gave us google and our lives changed forever brim has a net worth of 95.1 billion and co-founded the search engine in 1998. the duo met at sanford and since then there has been no stopping them brynn became google's president of technology and eric schmidt took over as ceo in 2001 after establishing parent company alphabet in 2015 brim held the top post finally stepping down in 2019 when sundar pachai took over as ceo brim came from a humble background immigrating with his family from russia to the united states in 1979 when he was just six years old until 2020 brand's net worth was in the range of around 100 billion but today his net value still rests at quite a comfortable amount 95.1 billion dollars number seven warren buffett 96.4 billion dollars from paperboy to billionaire a ranks to rich's story can't get better than this warren buffett the most renowned living value investor submitted his first tax return in 1944 at the age of 14. reporting revenues from his paper route he first purchased shares in berkshire hathaway in 1962 becoming the majority stakeholder in 1965 and in 67 he expanded the business into insurance and other investments as of may 5th 2022 a single class a share of berkshire hathaway was trading for more than 481 thousand dollars the company's current market capitalization is currently 705 billion dollars buffett is a buy and hold investor who built his fortune by acquiring undervalued companies more recently berkshire hathaway has invested in large well-known companies its portfolio of wholly owned subsidiaries including interests and insurance energy distribution railroads and consumer products and i'll tell you this don't try mentioning bitcoin to warren buffett this man made his billions with old-fashioned money and is very skeptical about new age digital currency number six guatam adani 98.8 billion dollars meet with adani the richest man in india and asia taking over from mukesh ambani with a 225 million dollar rise in his net worth of 98.8 billion dollars adani's entrepreneurial dna comes directly from his father who had a textile firm despite the possibility of inheritance adani had little interest in the business and preferred to follow his own dreams to attain a big fortune soon after leaving home adami entered the diamond market which saw him quickly ascend to the millionaire status upon acquiring this money he formed adani enterprises a conglomerate that today handles many industries in sectors including energy transportation mining infrastructure logistics cement and fast-moving consumer products thanks to india's economic growth adoni's stock market success and new investments and green energy have contributed more than 40 billion dollars to his net worth over the past year propelling him right to the top of the rich list number five larry page 99.2 billion dollars did you know that larry page co-founded google when he was just 23 years old larry page like several other software millionaires on our list began his route to fame and fortune in a college dorm room in 1995 while paige was a student at stanford university he and his friend sergey brin came up with the concept of enhancing internet data extraction due to its ability to examine backing links the team created a new search engine technology that they termed backrub and from there paige and brynn founded google in 1998 and you know how the story goes the firm also owns youtube as well and in 2008 google unveiled the android mobile phone operating system after acquiring android incorporated in 2005. these developments just keep pushing page up the billionaires list where he sits now with a hefty 99.2 billion dollars number four bill gates 115 billion dollars now here's a man who was a real whiz kid when he was young bill gates created his first software program when he was just 13. i mean can you beat that and who even knew that this kid would go on to become the co-founder of microsoft the largest computer software firm in the world it was founded in 1975 and has continued its expansion in computing software and gaming sectors over the years acquiring activision blizzard in a 68.7 billion deal gates has kept an active involvement in the company but he eventually sold away the majority of his stake retaining only one percent of the shares and investing the rest in stocks and other assets bill gates just recently entered the 100 billion dollar club last year in april when microsoft's share price surged post earnings bill has now resigned from microsoft in order to devote his time to the bill and melinda gates foundation number three bernard arnold 128 billion dollars meet the pope of fashion bernard are not the man with a golden touch in the fashion world a french citizen bernard arnaut is the chair and ceo of lvmh the world's largest luxury goods company lvmh owns brands like louis vuitton hennessy mark jacobs and sephora most of arnold's forgings stems from his enormous investment in christian dior se the holding company that controls 41.3 of lvmh his shares in christian dior se plus an extra 6.2 percent in lvmh are held through his family-owned holding firm group familial or not an engineer by background arnold initially displayed his economic aptitude while working for his father's construction firm for which he gained command of the company in 1971. he turned farrett seven hour into a real estate company called farinelle incorporated and today arnold is considered the richest man in fashion and sits at number three on the richest list with 128 billion dollars number two jeff bezos 133 billion dollars who would have thought jeff bezos would become the second richest man in the world by selling books on amazon when he first started out at the age of 30 jeff bezos quit the finance profession to create a business that many considered quite foolish amazon was born as an online library and today is one of the largest e-commerce sites in the world currently valued at over 1 trillion bezos is credited with pioneering the e-commerce scene which is now one of the world's largest sectors he built amazon into a marketplace where consumers can buy and sell virtually anything and created one of the most sophisticated logistic organization platforms in the world amazon did not stop there expanding to include amazon prime video and amazon web services and is currently the leading cloud service provider in 2021 bezos stepped down as amazon's ceo handing over the reins to andy jassy today jeff has diversified into aerospace technology and sub-orbital space flight with blue origins a company he founded in 2000 it further swelled bezos's financial portfolio soaring his net worth up to 133 billion dollars which has increased another 3.2 billion with stocks rising in the recent months and finally number one elon musk 210 billion dollars elon musk is one of the most enterprising eccentric and creative entrepreneurs with a vision to change the world and oh yes mars as well the man who sent his roadster to space is laughing all the way to the bank with not just his success at tesla but with the path breaking milestones in batteries and electric cars elon musk in 2021 became nasa's go-to guy by securing the contract for making the moon lander for nasa's upcoming mission to mars besides his many ventures musk's aerospace engineering firm spacex has seen phenomenal success with sustainable reusable rocket technology and is even varying nasa astronauts to the space station and back elon was born in south africa and got his bachelor's degree in physics and economics from the university of pennsylvania he postponed his enrollment in a doctoral physics program at stanford university for two days in order to create zip2 one of the earliest internet navigation systems he reinvested a portion of the earnings from this farmer to build x.com the online payment system that ebay incorporated ended up acquiring afterwards there was no stopping mask and today his net worth is a staggering 219 billion dollars he is by far the world's richest man and now his next conquest is the social media platform twitter for which he's in the process of signing a 44 billion deal for so what do you guys think how long will elon musk remain at number one or do you think anybody is headed right on his heels let me know in the comment section down below if you enjoyed the video make sure to leave a like and subscribe and as always pit pip to doodly do

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Length: 12min 45sec (765 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 13 2022