Ranking includes heirs, CEOs, and entrepreneurs from giants in various industries
This Tuesday, April 1st, Forbes published the 2025 billionaire ranking. And it’s no joke!
Tesla founder Elon Musk leads the magazine’s annual billionaire ranking this year. The entrepreneur has accumulated a fortune of no less than $342 billion.
Last year, Frenchman Bernard Arnault, president of the luxury group LVMH, held the top position, but he is now in fifth place, with a modest $178 billion.
The second and third positions are occupied by Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, and Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.
The first woman on the list ranked 15th: American Alice Walton, Walmart heiress, who has accumulated $101 billion.
Check out the ranking of the world’s top billionaires below:
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla (accumulated fortune of $340 billion)
Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Meta (estimated fortune of $216 billion)
Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon (estimated fortune of $215 billion)
Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle (estimated fortune of $192 billion)
Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH, the parent company of Louis Vuitton (estimated fortune of $178 billion)
Warren Buffett, mega-investor (estimated fortune of $254 billion)
Larry Page, co-founder of Google (estimated fortune of $144 billion)
Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google (estimated fortune of $138 billion)
Amancio Ortega, CEO of Inditex (owner of Zara) (estimated fortune of $124 billion)
Steve Ballmer, former CEO of Microsoft (estimated fortune of $118 billion)
2025 is marked by a record number of billionaires worldwide: 3,028. Learn more: https://t.co/MSs1NVEX2P
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