Dive into the fascinating world of the super-rich in “Richest People: A Deep Dive into the Top 10 Wealthiest People in the World.” This journey explores how these super-rich people have amassed unimaginable amounts of money. We’ll unravel their stories and see how their fortunes have made them the richest on Earth. It’s like a peek into the lives of money experts who have hit the jackpot!
With multi-billion dollar luxury businesses and a strong shark mentality, these people have managed to amass some of the biggest fortunes on the face of the earth.
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Here Are the Top 10 Richest People in the World
10: Mukesh Ambani
This is the only millionaire who gave internet connection for free, unlike others who charge you even for a blue tick. Mukesh Ambani was born in India and founded Reliance Industries, a private sector enterprise with companies such as Jio Platforms, a telecom network that broke into the market by providing free internet connection to its customers from September 2016 to March 2017, waging a price war.
But nothing can be free forever, so once it started billing. How much do you think its cheapest plan was? Two dollars! Unbelievable, isn’t it?
Ambani built a net worth of 83.5 billion dollars, with which he ordered the construction of Antilia, the most expensive house in the world valued at one billion dollars, with a sea view but also a poverty view because from there he can look at the poor areas of Bombay. It has 9 lifts, 3 helipads, 27 floors. The first of which has six garages, 600 full-time employees, and a special room that creates snowflakes.
09: Larry Page
Do you know how Larry Page made his fortune? The process includes the development of Google, first known as Backrub, which is the world’s largest search engine with a 92 percent market portion, the development of Google AdWords, and the purchase of YouTube.
Currently, Google is a subsidiary of Alphabet, a company of which Larry Page was CEO until 2019 but still owns shares. All combined gave Page a net worth of 88.8 billion dollars, enough money to buy four private islands, one in Fiji and the other three in the Caribbean.
He also has invested his money in companies such as Planetary Resources, which wants to do asteroid mining in the style of “Don’t Look Up,” or Opener, a company interested in developing flying cars. Do you think Page will ever see profits from all these investments, or is it money down the space?
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08: Steve Ballmer
He was the CEO of Microsoft between 2000 and 2014 and currently owns four percent of the shares, making him the largest single shareholder of this company with a wealth of 89.4 billion dollars. Interestingly, his time as CEO was so terrible that Microsoft shares fell 36%, while Apple shares rose 2,000%.
While Skype was bought, and Xbox consoles launched during his tenure, he couldn’t compete with Apple and Alphabet in the touchscreen business, and the Windows Phone operating system never became as popular as Android or iOS.
Balmer was such a bad officer that when he quit, Microsoft shares pushed up their value just because the investors were happy. Anyway, that didn’t affect Balmer’s wallet as he bought the NBA team Los Angeles Clippers for two billion dollars.
07: Carlos Slim
Did you know that the richest man in Mexico amassed his immense fortune as a stockbroker? With the profits, he laid the foundations for his conglomerate, the Carso Group, which had stakes in a bunch of companies. In 1990, Slim bought Mexico’s only phone company, Telmex, which belonged to the state at the time. Of course, all this had to pay off, so Slim’s net worth is currently 90.5 billion dollars.
What does he spend his money on? More business, obviously. Carlos Slim ordered the construction of the “Plaza Carso”. Real estate complex of shopping centers and residential areas. He also built one of the three headquarters of the “Soumaya Museum”. There are more than 60 thousand pieces of art, including pre-Hispanic art and paintings by El Greco and Van Gogh. Now, spot on.
06: Warren Buffett
The famous Oracle of Omaha is one of the world’s most successful investors. Its trading of shares is closely watched by many speculators and makes headlines in economic news. Warren Buffett owns Berkshire Hathaway, which was originally a textile company, but it moved into the financial sector when Buffett started controlling it through shares because, you know, money can do anything.
Buffett owns shares in a wide range of companies, including Coca-Cola, American Express, Duracell, and Apple. Although he has a net worth of 108 billion dollars, he lives a very austere lifestyle in a house he bought 60 years ago and is often seen eating. A $2 McDonald’s burger for lunch, and if he gets coupons, he also uses them.
So far, he has donated 49 billion dollars to Bill Gates’s charitable foundation and has pledged to donate 99 percent of his assets to philanthropic works.
05: Larry Ellison
Ellison’s fortune is valued at 113.9 billion dollars, thanks to the fact that he owns none other than 35 percent of the shares of Oracle, the second-largest software company in the world specializing in database management, data, and business programs. And to think that it all started when he was commissioned by the CIA to create a database that ended up being his flagship product.
With all his billions, Ellison bought almost the entire Hawaiian island of Lanai for 300 million dollars and has expensive cars, such as a McLaren F1 or an Audi R8, as well as luxury planes. He’s a fan of yachts too, so his fleet is worth 1 billion dollars. If you put one boat behind another, they would make a line 2,600 feet long. Finally, since he likes tennis, he bought the Indian Wells tournament for 72 million dollars. Is there anything Ellison can’t buy?
04: Bill Gates
The founder of Microsoft made his fortune selling the MS-DOS operating system to computer manufacturers and copying many features of Mac operating systems to create Windows. This copycat’s wealth is 114 billion dollars, allowing him to become a great collector of expensive objects, such as a 30 million dollar original Leonardo da Vinci manuscript and a large art collection, including a 30 million dollar painting by Winslow Homer.
Bill Gates is also the largest private farmland owner in the United States. It has come under fire for hogging properties as big as Hong Kong, quite a feudal lord. Gates is the founder of the Giving Pledge initiative, which includes the commitment of several billionaires to donate at least half of their fortunes.
As an accomplished spokesperson, he has already donated $59 billion to the foundation he co-chairs with his ex-wife Melinda. As they divorced in 2021, the foundation has also approached companies making vaccines for children in poor countries, raising suspicions that Bill Gates was quite apocalyptic during the pandemic. Do you think he’s already working on the next pandemic to prevent it? I hope.
03: Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1998 when he still had hair, but now he owns just under 10 percent of the company. Bezos was the second man to have a net worth of 1 billion dollars after Bill Gates. He was in all the headlines when he divorced his wife Mackenzie in 2019, transferring four percent of Amazon’s shares to her, which was equivalent to 19.5 billion dollars.
But why it happened? It seems that it was because of the relationship between Bezos and the TV host Lauren Sanchez — the most expensive affair in the world. Anyway, The pandemic saved Amazon’s share price by driving it up, thus his net worth is now $120 billion.
Jeff Bezos is not stupid at all and is committed to the future. He’s also the owner of The Washington Post and Blue Origin, which is an aerospace company that develops rockets. Thus it briefly flew into space in July 2021. I can’t deny that I would love to go on one of these trips with Jeff.
02: Elon Musk
Elon Musk sells companies to buy others; he sold his Zip2 program to develop X.com, the precursor to PayPal, which he, in turn, sold to eBay. From this amount, he became an important financier and then director of Tesla. Currently, he owns 23 percent of the shares and has a wealth of 191.4 billion dollars. Elon Musk is the founder of SpaceX. Which is a space rocket company.
Despite the millions, he is a very simple and stingy man. In 2021, after selling several properties, he moved to a 387-square-foot house. His 70 million dollars private jet is likely to be his only extravagance. At the end of 2022, he agreed to buy Twitter for about 44 billion dollars.
Although he’s now the boss of the network with the Bluebird logo, all his attempts to get it to monetize have yet to be successful. Could this be an investment with no return? If he continues like this, he will suffer the same fate as his colleague Zuckerberg.
01: Bernard Arnault
Monsieur Arno is the owner of Christian Dior, a company he bought after getting Faris Avignier, his father’s construction company, to go into the financial sector. He then bought Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, which in turn has luxury brands such as Givenchy and Bulgari, pure elegance. In 2021, he purchased the American jeweler Tiffany and Co. where Breakfast at Tiffany’s was filmed. This was the largest acquisition of a luxury brand in history since it cost 15.8 billion dollars.
Currently, Bernard Arno’s net worth is 214.5 billion dollars. But despite all these millions, the Frenchman with the most money in the world hasn’t rested on his laurels. In 2019, he purchased the Belmont Luxury Hotel Group, which also has trains and river cruises, for 3.2 billion dollars.