By Goodluck Ikiebe
Twitter Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk, has been named the second time as the number one Richest man in the World.
According to the World of Statistics, Musk is worth $224 billion.
The business magnate and investor is the founder, Chairman, CEO and Chief Technology officer of SpaceX, angel investor.
Musk is also the CEO and Product Architect of Tesla, Inc., owner, Chairman and CTO of X Corp, founder of the Boring Company, a co-founder of Neuralink and OpenAI, and the President of the Musk Foundation.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Musk has an estimated net worth of US$239 billion as of July 2023, and $248.8 billion according to Forbes.
Among the top five richest men are: Bernard Arnault: $191b, Jeff Bezos: $163b, Bill Gates: $130b and Larry Ellison: $127b.
Others in the ranking include:
Warren Buffet: $120b
Larry Page: $117b
Steve Ballmer: $112b
Sergey Brin: $111b
Mark Zuckerberg: $110b
Mukesh Ambani: $96.4b
Carlos Slim: $92.2b Francoise Bettencourt Meyers: $90.6b Manicotti Ortega: $74.2b
Jim Walton: $73.0b
Rob Walton: $71.0b
Alice Walton: $70.0b
Charles Koch: $65.2b
Julia Flesher Koch: $65.2b
Gautam Adani: $63.9b
Zhong Shanshan: $63.5b
Michael Dell: $62.4b
John Mars: $56.1b
Forbes Reports that Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, CEO, Tesl TSLAa, Elon Musk, has overtaken his Facebook counterpart, Mark Zuckerberg to become the world’s richest person.
According to Forbes, “The billionaire Musk’s net worth pushed up by $8.3 billion, to $105.4 billion on Wednesday, making him the richest person in the world.
