Musk ousted Jeff Bezos.
Forbes magazine named the richest people in the world, for the first time in four years, entrepreneur Elon Musk took the first place.
Before that, Jeff Bezos, the founder of an Internet company, was recognized as the richest man on the planet Amazon.com and the aerospace company Blue Origin.
According to the publication, Musk’s fortune is $ 219 billion. Bezos has $171 billion.
Experts have found that over the year, Elon Musk’s fortune has grown by $ 68 billion. From the founder Amazon.com Bezos’ fortune decreased by $ 6 billion.
The top five billionaires are Bernard Arnault and the family, as well as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
Meanwhile, it became known that Elon Musk received 9.2% of Twitter shares, the businessman will join the board of directors of the social network. Musk has already asked users if they need a feature to edit tweets.
Forbes also named the richest Russians. In the first place was the co-owner of the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Combine (NMLK), Vladimir Lisin, who accumulated $ 18.4 billion.
Next comes Vladimir Potanin, co-owner of Norilsk Nickel. He has $17.3 billion in his account.
Pavel Durov closes the top three richest people in Russia. The founder of VK and Telegram has accumulated $15.1 billion.
As Topnews wrote earlier, Russian billionaires lost $39 billion in one day of operations in Ukraine.
Because of the collapsed stock market in Russia, Vagit Alekperov, the head of Lukoil, suffered the most. His fortune decreased by $3.8 billion, which is 15.4%.