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Here are the top 10 Richest People in The World and their Net Worth 2022
The top 10 richest people in the world is made up of billionaires with each of them having a total net worth surpassing 100 billion dollars. Here are the top 10 world richest people and their net worth as at December, 2021.
10. Gautam Adani & family
- Infrastructure tycoon Gautam Adani controls Mundra Port, India’s largest, in his home state of Gujarat.
- His $13 billion (revenue) Adani Group’s interests span infrastructure, commodities, power generation and transmission and real estate.
- Adani owns Abbot Point, a controversial coal mining project in Australia, whose Carmichael coal mine is billed as one of the world’s largest.
- In June 2019, Adani got permission to start work on the Australian coal mine after a 9-year wait.
- Adani acquired a 74% stake in Mumbai International Airport, India’s second-busiest, in September 2020.
- He has a net worth of $90.2 Billion.
9. Steve Ballmer
- Steve Ballmer is the high-wattage former CEO of Microsoft, who led the company from 2000 to 2014.
- He joined Microsoft in 1980 as employee No. 30 after dropping out of Stanford’s MBA program.
- Ballmer oversaw Microsoft after the first dot-com crash and through efforts to catch up to Google in search capabilities and Apple in mobile phones.
- The same year he retired from Microsoft he bought the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion.
- He has ramped up his philanthropy since 2014, putting over $2 billion into a donor-advised fund, with a focus on lifting Americans out of poverty.
- In 2018, he invested $59 million in Social Solutions, which makes software for nonprofits and government agencies.
- He has a net worth of $96 Billion
8. Larry Ellison
- Larry Ellison is chairman, chief technology officer and co-founder of software giant Oracle, of which he owns about 35%.
- He gave up the Oracle CEO role in 2014 after 37 years at the helm.
- Oracle has grown in part through steady acquisitions of software companies, the biggest of which was $9.3 billion for NetSuite in 2016.
- In 2020, Ellison moved permanently to the Hawaiian island Lanai, which he bought nearly all of in 2012 for $300 million.
- Ellison joined Tesla’s board in December 2018, after purchasing 3 million Tesla shares earlier that year.
- He has a net worth of $110 million.
7. Sergey Brin
- 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.
- He has a net worth of $113.3 Billion.
6. Warren Buffet
- Known as the “Oracle of Omaha,” Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors of all time.
- Buffett runs Berkshire Hathaway, which owns more than 60 companies, including insurer Geico, battery maker Duracell and restaurant chain Dairy Queen.
- The son of a U.S. congressman, he first bought stock at age 11 and first filed taxes at age 13.
- He has promised to donate over 99% of his wealth. So far he has given more than $45 billion, mostly to the Gates Foundation and his kids’ foundations.
- In 2010, he and Bill Gates launched the Giving Pledge, asking billionaires to commit to donating at least half of their wealth to charitable causes.
- As at December 2021, Warren Buffet has a net worth of $106 Billion
5. Larry Page
- 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.
- He has a net worth of $118 Billion
4. Bill Gate
- Bill Gates turned his fortune from software firm Microsoft into a diversified fortune; his focus has shifted to zero-carbon energy investing and philanthropy.
- On May 3, 2021, Bill and Melinda each announced on Twitter they were ending their marriage after 27 years. They will still co-chair the charitable Gates Foundation.
- Gates, who cofounded Microsoft with Paul Allen in 1975, has transferred at least $5.7 billion worth of shares in public companies to Melinda.
- As of March 2020, when Gates stepped down from the Microsoft board, he owned about 1% of the software and computing company’s shares.
- He has invested in dozens of companies including Canadian National Railway and AutoNation, and is one of the largest owners of farmland in the U.S.
- To date, Gates has donated $35.8 billion worth of Microsoft stock to the Gates Foundation.
- Bill Gate net worth is estimated as at February, 2022 to be $132.6 Billion
3. Jeff Bezos
- Jeff Bezos founded e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 out of his garage in Seattle. He stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman on July 5, 2021.
- Amazon thrived during the pandemic; revenues in 2020 grew 38% to $386 billion as people stayed home and made online purchases.
- In April 2020, Bezos said he would give $100 million to Feed America, a nonprofit that operates food banks and food pantries across the country.
- Amazon has faced criticism from U.S. senators and the general public for its treatment of warehouse workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
- He and his wife MacKenzie divorced in 2019 after 25 years of marriage and he transferred a quarter of his 16% Amazon stake to her.
- Bezos owns The Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company that is developing rockets for commercial use.
- Jeff Bazos net worth is estimated as $187.3 Billion.
2. Bernard Arnault & family
- One of the world’s ultimate taste-makers, Bernard Arnault oversees an empire of 70 brands including Louis Vuitton and Sephora.
- In January 2021, LVMH completed a deal for American jeweler Tiffany & Co for $15.8 billion, believed to be the biggest luxury brand acquisition ever.
- LVMH spent $3.2 billion in 2019 for luxury hospitality group, Belmond, which owns or manages 46 hotels, trains and river cruises.
- His father made a small fortune in construction; Arnault got his start by putting up $15 million from that business to buy Christian Dior in 1985.
- Four of Arnault’s five children work in corners of the LVMH empire: Frédéric, Delphine, Antoine and Alexandre.
- The net worth of Arnault is estimated as at February 2022 to be $194.6 Billion. Bernard Arnault and Family is the second on the list of richest people in the world.
1. Elon Musk
- Elon Musk is working to revolutionize transportation both on Earth, through electric car maker Tesla — and in space, via rocket producer SpaceX.
- He owns 23% of Tesla but has pledged more than half his stake as collateral for loans; Forbes has discounted his stake to take the loans into account.
- The Tesla CEO stepped down as chairman in 2018, after making alleged “false statements” about a plan to take Tesla private, triggering an SEC probe.
- SpaceX, Musk’s rocket company, is valued at $74 billion after its latest funding round in February 2021.
- He grew up in South Africa, then immigrated to Canada at age 17. He landed in the U.S. as a transfer student to the University of Pennsylvania.
- The net worth of Elon Musk is estimated as at February, 2022 to be $239.3 Billion. This makes him the most richest person in the world.
