Top 15 Richest People In The World (2021)

with a few exceptions 2020 has been a phenomenal year for the world's richest people billionaires wealth rose more than 10 trillion dollars during the kovite 19 pandemic and entrepreneurs like elon musk saw their net worth increased astronomically today we're looking at the 15 richest people in the world right now jim walton is one of the heirs to the walmart fortune he is the youngest of the walton siblings and decided to get involved with the financial arm of the company specifically he runs the family's harvest bank which has more than 16 billion dollars in assets he has been involved in political campaigning over the years but mostly shies away from the spotlight after serving on the walmart board for more than a decade he has stepped down regardless his net worth ballooned to 67.6 billion dollars making him the 15th wealthiest person on earth alice walton is another walmart heir unlike her brother she stayed away from the day-to-day operations at walmart walton also has a reputation as a prolific art collector her collection is worth many millions of dollars and her personal fortune is worth 67.8 billion dollars in total making her the 14th wealthiest person on earth this is an increase of over 20 billion dollars in under a year all of which came from dividends and stocks from walmart if only everyone could make 20 billion dollars in passive income francois bettencourt cormaya is the wealthiest woman in the world and the 13th richest overall she is the sole daughter and heiress of lillian bettencourt and she currently owns the l'oreal family of businesses the french woman is famous for suing her mother while she was dying in order to gain control of her finances the result gave betinco myers 72.3 billion dollars she is not renowned for her philanthropy and due to the scandal with her mother she has many critics outside of business she is known for contributing commentaries to the bible steve ballmer is the lesser known microsoft billionaire he was not a founding member of microsoft but was their 30th employee meaning he was definitely present from the beginning he served as the ceo between and 2014 though his leadership received mixed reviews ulma managed to walk away with a ton of microsoft stock he sold some of it and bought the los angeles clippers basketball team which turned out to be a great investment he is currently valued at 72.5 billion dollars unlike bill gates the former microsoft ceo does not make philanthropy a priority meaning that his net worth continues to increase sergey brin co-founded the world's most used website with larry page in 1998. that's right bren is one of the masterminds behind google he now serves as the president of google's parent company alphabet born in moscow in 1973 bryn immigrated to the united states with his family from the soviet union at the age of six after raising one million dollars from family friends and other investors the pair launched the company in 1998 headquartered in the heart of california's silicon valley google held its initial public offering in august making bryn and paige billionaires google has since become the world's most popular search engine receiving an average of more than a trillion searches a day in 2016. the somewhat anonymous technocrat has a net worth of 75 billion dollars making him the 11th wealthiest person on earth amancio ortega is not well known outside of his native spain but the businessman is almost synonymous with fast fashion he was the founder of inditex which includes fast fashion chains such as zara pull and bear massimo duty bershka stradivarius oysho and utterque even though some consumers opted to buy used clothes as their incomes contracted in 2020 inditec still made an amazing profit notoriously private few people know much about ortega but through tax records it's clear that he makes more than 400 million dollars just from dividends every year on top of his corporate profits ortega is worth 75.2 billion dollars positioning him in the tenth rank on our list mukesh ambani may not be a household name like other billionaires on this list but he is one of the most powerful people in the world the yemeni-born indian business mogul is the chairman and managing director of the indian conglomerate reliance industries limited or ril the foremost company of the indian energy and materials conglomerate reliance group his net worth currently sits at 75.8 billion dollars making him the ninth wealthiest person in the world he has gained more than 25 billion dollars in the last year larry page is famous for co-founding the now universal search engine google these days google is just one of the numerous companies falling under the umbrella of paige's media conglomerate alphabet google makes up more than 87 of the total search engine market meaning that it earns a colossal total in ad revenue this helped push larry page to the number eight spot on the countdown the 47 year old has a net worth of 77.2 billion dollars larry ellison is the founder and ceo of oracle corporation he is also a major investor in tesla in 1977 ellison and two of his colleagues founded software development labs and soon had a contract to build a database management system which they called oracle for the cia the company had fewer than 10 employees and revenue of less than 1 million per year but in 1981 ibm signed on to use oracle and the company's sales doubled every year for the next seven years ellison soon renamed the company after its best-selling product now his various financial interests from cloud computing to hydroponics have netted him 83.6 billion dollars this is up more than 20 billion dollars since 2019. warren buffett the oracle of omaha is known for his amazing ability to pick stocks with incredible accuracy born in nebraska in 1930 warren buffett demonstrated keen business abilities at a young age he formed buffett partnership limited in 1956 and by 1965 he had assumed control of berkshire hathaway overseeing the growth of a conglomerate with holdings in the media insurance energy and food and beverage industries buffett became one of the world's richest men and a celebrated philanthropist the 90-year-old nebraska native has a net worth of 84.6 billion dollars this is an impressive feat though in 2019 he was the third richest person in the world in 2020 he has fallen three spots making him the sixth richest person on earth coming in at number five is facebook founder and ceo mark zuckerberg facebook has more than two billion unique monthly visitors making it by far one of the most visited websites on earth all of that attention and raw consumer data translates into huge advertisement revenue for zuckerberg the 36 year old has a net worth of 99.2 billion dollars up more than 30 billion dollars since last year to put this in perspective zuckerberg makes the equivalent of more than 1.7 million dollars an hour compared to the american federal minimum wage of 7.25 cents an hour zuckerberg is making an absolute incredible amount of money bill gates was the third richest man in the world for many years the founder and former ceo of microsoft has already given more than a third of his net worth to charities through the bill and melinda gates foundation but despite this the 65 year old is worth a whopping 119 billion dollars many people believe that gates set the model for the ethical billionaire he spearheaded the giving pledge along with warren buffett which encourages billionaires to give the majority of their wealth away while they are still alive he also approves of more intensive taxation on billionaires and these days focuses more on philanthropy than on day-to-day operations at microsoft you may not have heard of bernard arno but you've certainly seen his products sported by celebrities and ultra wealthy clientele all over the world the luxury group he overseas lvmh is the parent company of brands like louis vuitton muay shendon and hennessey cognac arno controls about half of lvmh which had a revenue of 53 billion euros in 2019 making him the richest man in france his total net worth is currently 148.4 billion dollars positioning him as the second wealthiest person in the world in addition to lvmh arno oversees further investment and holding vehicles group unknown has invested in netflix and blue capital and also took a major stake in french food chain carrefour in addition he has invested in boo.com and a variety of other online ventures as well as buying princess yachts outright jeff bezos is the ceo and founder of amazon.com he was the richest man in the world until january 2021 when he was barely overtaken by elon musk regardless bezos made an unbelievable amount of money this year as brick and mortar shops closed their doors during the pandemic amazon was in a unique position to attract more business as a result jeff bezos gained about 87 billion dollars for a total net worth of 184.6 billion dollars this is even after a costly divorce in 2019 that cost bezos roughly half of his amazon shares without the divorce his wealth would be truly unbelievable due to the severe adversity suffered during 2020 many have called upon bezos to donate some of his incredible wealth to charity in the last calendar year his ex-wife mackenzie bezos gave away 4.2 billion dollars whereas jeff bezos only gave away 791 million this is equal to less than .0042 of his net worth elon musk had one of the best years of his life at least financially speaking the ceo of tesla and spacex gained more than 150 billion dollars in 2020 alone with a net worth of 185 billion dollars musk is now the richest person in the world in just under a month musk surpassed both mark zuckerberg bill gates and as of january 2021 jeff bezos this was largely due to tesla's inclusion on the exclusive s p 500 meaning that many people with index funds will begin passively investing in tesla stock in addition the incoming biden administration is viewed as more friendly toward green investment so wall street is piling money into industries like solar power and electric vehicles both of which benefited tesla musk has gained more wealth over the past 12 months than bill gates's entire net worth of 132 billion dollars musk famously earns his billions without taking a paycheck from tesla refusing his 56 000 minimum salary as ceo every year in january 2018 tesla announced it would pay musk nothing for the next 10 years no salary bonuses or stock until the company reached a 100 billion market cap this means musk has very little cash on hand almost all of his assets are tied up in tesla stock

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Published: Fri Jan 22 2021