Elon Musk became the world’s richest man this year, his fortune increased by $92 billion to $229 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
No one did better than Elon Musk, who reclaimed the title of the world’s richest man from French luxury magnate Bernard Arnault. The CEO of Tesla Inc. has become $92 billion richer since the beginning of the year, based on the price of his shares at the close of trading on Friday. Elon Musk lost $138 billion last year.
Last year’s Frenchman Bernard Arnault slipped back to second placethe president of the LVMH group (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy), whose fortune rose by $17 billion to $179 billion.
The Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos this year, he increased his wealth by $69.9 billion to $177 billion, which the third it was enough for the place.
On the list of the super-rich fourth Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft 141 billion dollars, which is 31.5 billion dollars more than last year.
THE Ex-CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer fifth on the list, his wealth increased by $45 billion to $131 billion.
The driving force behind the list of the 500 richest people is the Swiss Thomas Straumann, a businessman active in the field of health care, whose fortune increased by $1.37 billion to $5.55 billion in one year.