ELON MUSK IS IN THE TOP 10
Elon Musk is in the list of top 10 richest person. South African entrepreneur Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, whose personal wealth has tripled in the past four months, entered the top 10 for the first time on the list of the richest. The 49-year-old entrepreneur rose from 31st to 9th on the Forbes billionaires list, with a fortune of $ 69.1 billion.
"I DON'T CARE AT ALL"
Musk's fortune was $ 24.6 billion four months ago. Tesla's shares gained 320 percent in this period. According to Forbes Magazine, Musk said, "I don’t care at all. These numbers go up and down. The important thing is to make beautiful products that people love. ”
BEZOS IS STILL THE RICHEST
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is on the list of the richest with a fortune of $ 181.1 billion. The value of Amazon, in which Bezos held an 11 percent stake, increased 69 percent with the increase in online shopping worldwide in the coronavirus epidemic.
Bezos is followed by Bill Gates with $ 111.2 billion and Bernard Arnault with $ 111.1 billion. French business person Arnault, the richest person in Europe, owns the company LVMH, which includes 75 different luxury brands such as Christian Dior, Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Celine, Tiffany and Dom Perignon.
Arnault's fortune was $ 108 billion by the end of January. However, due to the drop in luxury consumption during the epidemic, Arnault's fortune fell to $ 76 billion in mid-March.
Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison Ballmer is fifth on the list with his $ 73 billion personal fortune, while former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is among the top 10 with his $ 72 billion fortune. Microsoft's shares have gained 47 percent since mid-March.
Mukesh Ambani, an Indian business man whose fortune has nearly doubled since March, has left the American investor Warren Buffet behind, ranking seventh on the list. Reliance Jio, Ambani's telecom company, whose wealth reached $ 71.4 billion, attracted a large amount of investment in 2020. Facebook announced that it would invest $ 5.7 billion, Google $ 4.5 billion, and the United Arab Emirates national asset fund Mubadala $ 1.2 billion.
Warren Buffett, who has been in the top 10 for the last 20 years, dropped four row and went to the eighth place. Larry Page, who co-founded Google with Sergey Brin, and CEO of Google's rooftop company Alphabet until the end of last year, ranked 10th on the list with a fortune of $ 67.1.