Gautam Adani is the third richest person in the world, behind only Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Thereās a new No. 3 on the global wealth rankings. Indian billionaire Gautam Adani leapfrogged luxury goods magnate Bernard Arnault on Tuesday. With a $137 billion fortune, according to theĀ Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Adani […]
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Elon Musk has taken over Twitter, the small but mighty social media platform used by politicians, journalists and neighborhood trolls alike to spread news, hot takes, and sometimes misinformation. As he prepared to put his stamp on the company, let’s review what we know about the billionaire. Where is Elon Musk from? Since bursting on […]
Of the 100 wealthiest people in America, 26 live in California. Thatās more than any other state, and not simply a byproduct of Californiaās large population. If the countryās 100 top billionaires were evenly distributed, we would expect just 12 of them to reside here. Yes, this is largely because of Silicon Valley. But itās […]
Elon MuskĀ unleashed a torrent of stock sales, options exercises, tax payment sales and gifted shares last year totaling nearly $22 billion. Yet even after unloading so muchĀ TeslaĀ stock, he still owns a larger share of the company, thanks to his compensation package. Musk sold $16 billion in shares last year and, according to a filing with […]
JeffĀ BezosĀ startedĀ AmazonĀ 23 years ago as an online bookstore. Today it has grown into the largest internet retailer in the world; itās home to an Oscar- and Emmy-winning production studio; its subscription service, Amazon Prime, reached 80 million members this year (up from 58 million in 2016); and itās made Bezos one of the richest men on […]
THE VERY Richest people on the planet are worth a staggering $1.2 trillion–a sum roughly equivalent to the annual economic output of Mexico. In aggregate, their riches represent 13% of the total fortune of all 2,208 billionaires worldwide. The minimum figure for admission to this august club: $39 billion, up 28% from $30.4 billion a […]
The value of cryptocurrencies skyrocketed in 2017 to more than $600 billion, minting scores of crypto millionaires.Ā A few lucky holders are also breathing the rarefied air of the billionaires club ā and not just in the most valuable cryptocurrency Bitcoin, which has a market capitalization of $237 billion. Two billionaires who now easily rank […]