Elon Musk did not found Tesla, he joined the ongoing project in February 2004 to become the majority shareholder of the company (which was created a year earlier by two engineers, Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning), which led to the global phenomenon it is today. Riding on the success of the American electric car brand, along with other businesses he leads (founded SpaceX, the first company to sell a commercial flight to the Moon, is vice president of OpenAI and CEO of Neuralink; co-founder of SolarCity and owner of the social network Twitter, currently “X”), he built one of the world’s great fortunes. The largest, according to the updated Bloomberg index. Elon Musk is the richest man on the planet, with a net worth of around 210 billion euros, in this year 2023.
The updated list can be consulted at Bloomberg Billionaires Index, but as of today, Bernard Arnault, French businessman, current chairman and CEO of LVMH, the world’s largest luxury goods company, occupies the second place in the ranking, with an estimated fortune of $179 billion.
Interestingly, of the eight names that complete the top 10, only one does not belong to the technology sector, Warren Buffett, American investor and philanthropist.
The 10 richest men of 2023 (billion dollars)
1 Elon Musk $229B
2 Bernard Arnault $179B
3 Jeff Bezos $177B
4 Bill Gates $141B
5 Steve Ballmer $131B
6 Mark Zuckerberg $128B
7 Larry Page $126B
8 Larry Ellison $123B
9 Sergey Brin $120B
10 Warren Buffett $120B
