Who is the richest person in the world? Top 10 richest people in the world 2023, Elon Musk net worth
Last year, Forbes revealed that the world had 2,668 billionaires in it but who are the ten richest people among them? Here are the world’s top ten richest people and their net worths.
Billionaires own exorbitant quantities of wealth that enable them to influence the world we live in from the economy, to politics, our media and much more.
This influential group of people is highly elite and many of them are the owners of major technology giants or other companies that we rely on regularly in our daily lives.
Last year, Forbes revealed that there were 2,668 billionaires in the world, but who are the richest billionaires among them?
Using real-time net worth data collected in Forbes’ Billionaire list (Updated: August 28), here are the ten richest people in the world and their sources of wealth revealed.
1. Elon Musk
Elon Musk is the founder of SpaceX, CEO and product architect of Tesla and owner of Twitter. Shortly after assuming his new role with Twitter last year, he fell from grace as the world’s richest man, but now in 2023 he’s back on top with his net worth at $244.9 billion.
2. Bernard Arnault & family
Bernard Arnault is a French business magnate and the CEO of Louis Vuitton (LVMH), he oversees the LVMH empire which includes 75 brands such as Sephora. His net worth is currently $212.5 billion. Photo: via WikiCommons
3. Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Bezos is the founder, executive chairman and former president and CEO of Amazon; the e-commerce giant he founded in 1994 out of his garage in Seattle. His net worth sits at $155.2 billion. Photo: Defense Visual Information Distribution Service
4. Larry Ellison
Lawrence Ellison is an American business magnate and the co-founder, executive chairman, chief technology officer and former CEO of the Oracle Corporation. His net worth is $145.2 billion. Photo: via WikiCommons