Elon Musk? Bill Gates? Jeff Bezos? Here's who takes the crown for world's richest person. (2024)

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Who reached 200 billion? ›

Amazon founder and executive chairman Jeff Bezos became the only American with a net worth above $200 billion Wednesday, enjoying a boost from Amazon stock's flirtation with an all-time high.

To tally their wealth, Forbes used stock prices and exchange rates from March 8, 2024. Bernard Arnault and his family are at number one, with a net worth of $233 billion. Arnault is head of LVMH, a luxury fashion and cosmetics conglomerate in France.

1 Elon Musk. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos took back his spot as the world's richest man on Monday, dethroning Elon Musk on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Bernard Arnault, chairman of LVMH, is the richest person and the richest man in the world with a net worth of $215 billion. After Arnault is Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon. Other billionaires with some of the largest net worths include Tesla's Musk, Microsoft's Bill Gates, and Oracle's Larry Ellison.

Masayoshi Son was an early investor in companies like Yahoo and Alibaba, which made him the richest person in the world for a brief period before the stock market crashed. At that time his net worth came down to just 8 billion dollars which was once 78 billion dollars.

In November 2021, Musk became the first person to have a net worth of more than $300 billion. On December 30, 2022, it was reported that Musk had lost $200 billion from his net worth due to declining stock values in Tesla, becoming the first person in history to lose such a large sum of money.

Since 2021, Francoise Bettencourt Meyers has been listed as the world's wealthiest woman.

Last month, Forbes business magazine stated that global superstar Taylor Swift's musical career had made her a billionaire.

As mentioned earlier, Elon Musk's IQ score is believed to be between 155 and 160. Above-average IQ scores within this range are only reserved for the "Highly Gifted" IQ classification.

Who is more richer than Elon Musk? ›

Who is the richest man in the world? As of May 1, 2024, the richest person in the world is Bernard Arnault, the CEO of French luxury goods group LVMH; he's worth nearly $209 billion. He moved into the number one spot in late January 2024, overtaking Elon Musk.

Dora Voigt d Assis is the older sister of Livia Voigt de Assis, the youngest billionaire on this list. She is also one of the largest individual shareholders of WEG, the largest manufacturer of electrical motors in Latin America. Dora graduated from an architecture college in 2020.

However, many believe Mansa Musa's wealth outdoes that of all modern billionaires. Mansa Musa ruled over the Mali empire in the 14th Century, and his incredible access to gold made him arguably the richest human to have ever lived.

T here are some things that only money can buy, such as membership in the $100 Billion Club—the elite class of billionaires who have 12-figure fortunes. This year, a record 14 people worldwide qualify. That's up from six last year and just one in 2020. Many of them struck it rich by starting tech companies.

Rockefeller became the world's first confirmed billionaire. It wasn't until 1999 when the world saw its first centibillionaire, when Bill Gates' net worth, however briefly, surpassed $100 billion.

For example, economic blogger Scott Sumner noted in 2018 that Rockefeller was worth $1.4 billion when he died in 1937, about $24 billion in dollars adjusted to 2018. Meanwhile, Bill Gates in 1999 was worth nearly $150 billion in dollars adjusted to 2018.