Elon Musk: Dethroned as the Richest Person in the World
By: Geetanjali
In the span of last nine months, this is the first time that Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk has been exceeded in the race of World’s Richest Person by Bloomberg Billionaire Index.Due to continued devaluation of Tesla’s Stocks Elon has lost his position to Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos, Musk is now on the second position in world’s richest person list. After 2021, this is the first time when Bezos has topped Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index.
Elon Musk Loses Title as World’s Richest Person
Tesla’s stock prices have been rising since 2019 and it peaked in 2021 after which a decline can be seen, while Amazon has been growing continuously since post pandemic. There was a time when the difference between Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos was more than $142 billion. However the differences have shrunk a lot in recent years. As per the reports Elon Musk’s net worth might have to take another hit, as Delaware has knocked out Tesla’s $55 billion pay package.
Below is the list of Top 15 Richest People in the World. Which also includes Reliance founder Mukesh Ambani at 11th position with a net worth of $115 billion, and Gautam Adani founder of The Adani Group at 12th position with a net worth of $104 billion.
| S.No | Name | Net Worth | Country | Industry |
| 1. | Jeff Bezos | $200 B | U.S | Technology |
| 2. | Elon Musk | $198 B | U.S | Technology |
| 3. | Bernard Arnault | $197 B | France | Consumer |
| 4. | Mark Zukerberg | $179 B | U.S | Technology |
| 5. | Bill Gates | $150 B | U.S | Technology |
| 6. | Steve Ballmer | $143 B | U.S | Technology |
| 7. | Warren Buffet | $133 B | U.S | Diversified |
| 8. | Larry Ellison | $129 B | U.S | Technology |
| 9. | Larry Page | $122 B | U.S | Technology |
| 10. | Sergey Brin | $116 B | U.S | Technology |
| 11. | Mukesh Amabni | $115 B | India | Energy |
| 12. | Gautam Adani | $104 B | India | Industrial |
| 13. | Michael Dell | $103 B | U.S | Technology |
| 14. | Carlos Slim | $103 B | Mexico | Diversified |
| 15. | Francoise Bettencourt Meyers | $97.1 B | France | Consumer |
