Jeff Bezos he is the richest man in the world, once again. He was in 2021 when he was still CEO of Amazon before resigning on July 5 of the same year, then for a long time he gave way to the competition with a ‘alternation between Elon Musk and Bernard Arnault.
At the beginning of 2024 it once again overtook the number one of Between overtaking and counter-overtaking, the founder of Amazon is currently the richest person on the planet.
The data is provided by Bloomberg Billionaires Index and, as can be seen, there is a difference of around a billion dollars between Jeff Bezos and Bernard Arnault: the former has a fortune of 209 billion dollarsthe second of 208. Compared to last year, it is interesting to observe that no one in the Top 10 has lost value, with the exception of just one: Elon Muskwith a splash of 28.7 billion dollars. And while Arnault grew less than a billion dollars, Bezos managed to increase his assets by as much as 32.4 billion dollars.
Below it is possible to observe the performance of the companies directly related to the three billionaires – Amazon for Bezos, LVMH for Arnault, Tesla for Musk. From the beginning of the year to today, Amazon shares have grown by 28.64%, those of LVMH by 3.61% while those of Tesla have fallen by 25.63%.
Some final curiosities:
- in fourth and fifth place we find Mark Zuckerberg (+50.5 billion dollars more than last year) e Larry Page
- Bill Gates it is sixth with 154 billion dollars
- NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang he earned in a year 63 billion dollarspositioning itself at 14th place of multi-billionaires. NVIDIA stock has grown so much that it led the company to the decision to carry out a stock split: essentially, each share was divided into 10 shares. It is a very common operation among companies listed on the stock exchange whose shares increase disproportionately in price.
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