Top 10 Richest Personalities In The World

9. Larry Page

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In the list of top 10 richest personalities of the world, Larry Page lands on number 9. He was born on March 26, 1973, in East Lansing, Michigan. His and Brin’s journey towards changing the technology world started from the dorm of Stanford University. The duo came up with an idea of improving internet data extraction. They also devised a new search engine technology that called Backrub. In the year of 1998, they founded Google and Page started serving as a CEO. He stepped down from his position in the year of 2001. He re-took the position of CEO in 2011 and served till 2019.

With time Google has become the dominant search engine of the world acquiring more than 92% of global search requests. The company has also acquired some of the other globally popular companies, such as YouTube and Android. Shares of Google went up by 50% only in 2021, which landed both Page and Brin within the list of top 10 richest personalities. The net worth of page went up from $52 billion to $98.7 billion just within 2 years.

8. Carlos Slim

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Carlos Slim has acquired the 8^th position in the top 10 richest personality list. He is a Mexican business magnet, investor, and a philanthropist. Slim was born on 28^th January 1940. He was a consistent part of the top 10 richest list from 2010 to 2013. However, he was soon replaced by others. As of 2023, he has now again gained a spot in this list with an amount of $86 billion as his wealth. The major source of his wealth is America Movil, which is a Mexico based telecommunication company. His other companies, such as Grupo Carso and Grupo Financiero also contribute to his increasing wealth.

7. Steve Ballmer

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The 66 years old Steve Ballmer is the former CEO of Microsoft, who led the company from 2000 to 2014. Ballmer was born on March 24, 1956, in Detroit, Michigan. He joined Microsoft in the year 1980. Bill gates convinced Ballmer to drop out of the MBA program of Stanford university and join Microsoft in the same year. According to internet sources, he was the 30^th employee of Microsoft and he got the position of the CEO of the company in the year 2000. He led the company for 14 years and then dropped his position. After dropping out of his position he purchased the basketball team Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion. He is now the 7th richest person of the world owning 4% of Microsoft’s shares still till now, which also makes him the largest individual shareholder of the company. Ballmer and Bill Gates shared a brotherly relationship until Ballmer started pushing Microsoft towards hardware, which stained their relationship quite a bit.

6. Larry Ellison

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Larry Ellison is crowned as the number 6 of the top 10 richest personalities of the world. The co-founder, executive chair and the CTO of Oracle was born on August 17, 1944, to a 19-year-old single mother. He dropped out of the University of Chicago in 1966 and moved to California. He stared to work as a computer programmer and in the year of 1973, he joined Ampex. After three years Ellison shifted to Precision Instruments and served as the vice president of the research and development department of the company.

In the year of 1977, Ellison founded software department laboratories with his other two partners Oates and Miner. After two years, this company released Oracle, which was the very first commercial relational database program to use a structured query language. The program became so popular that in 1982 SDL changed its name to Oracle Corporation. Ellison gave up his position as CEO in the year of 2014 and joined as a board member of Tesla in 2018. He now owns 40% of Oracle’s stake as well as more than $12 billion public assets of Tesla.

5. Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett is the most famous value investor as well as the 5th richest personality of the world. He was born on August 30, 1930, in Omaha. According to different sources, Buffett filed his first tax return at the age of 14, in 1944. His earnings were saved from his boyhood paper route job. In 1962, he first bought the share of a textile company called Berkshire Hathaway and within 1965 he became the major shareholder of the company. Within 1967, he expanded the textile company into an insurance carrier as well as in other investments. Currently Berkshire Hathaway is a company with $705 billion-dollar market capture.

Buffett has primarily acquired his position by taking over undervalued companies. He is 92 and is still serving as the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and is still going strong. His noble personality deserves a mention. From 2006 to 2021, Buffett has given away more than $41 billion in different charities and foundations. In 2010, he launched Giving Pledge along with Bill Gates. There are rumors of him retiring from his position soon.

4. Bill Gates

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There is hardly any sane human being, who does not know Bill Gates, the co-founder of the largest software company of the world, Microsoft. He is also the 4th richest personality of the world according to the 2023 report. He was born on October 28, 1955. With the success of developing a software for the original microcomputers Gates dropped out of Harvard University and proceeded towards founding Microsoft along with his childhood friend Paul Allen. Until 2008, Gates was the chief software architect of Microsoft, however, then he shifted his position to the role of board chair. In 2004, he joined the board of Berkshire Hathaway. In March 2020, he dropped his position from both of the boards.

Bill Gates has invested the major amount of his net worth in Cascade Investment LLC. The company owns various stocks including Canadian National Railway and Republic Services. Moreover, there are other investments included in energy and real estate. In 2010, he launched Giving Pledge, which is a campaign to encourage the wealthy people to donate most of their wealth for philanthropic causes. He has also spent billions of dollars fight against polio and malaria through his and his ex-wife’s foundation.

3. Jeff Bezos

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The second richest personality of the world is Jeff Bezos, the founder and executive chairperson of Amazon. He was born on 12^th January 1964. The journey of Amazon started in the year of 1994, right after Bezos resigned from D.E. Shaw. At a garage of Seattle, Bezos first started his company with the aim of selling books. However, amazon is now referred as the largest retailer of the world, which sells almost everything that has an existence. The company has expanded its areas of venture and has acquired many companies.

Bezos now owns 10% of Amazon’s shares as he had to transfer 4% to his ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott, post-divorce. Amazon has seen a soar in its share prices in 2020 by 76% making Bezos the second richest personality to exist. He stepped down from his position of CEO in 2021 and remained as an executive chairperson. He became the first man after Bill Gates to have more than $100 billion net worth.

2. Elon Musk

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Elon Musk is a trending name in today’s world, also, one of the most important names in advanced technology. Musk has acquired the position of the 2nd richest person of this world with a net worth of $184 billion. He was born on 28^th June 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa. He received is bachelor’s degrees in physics and in economics from the university of Pennsylvania. Musk is the one to launch Zip2, one of the earliest navigation systems. He is also the creator of PayPal, which was later sold to eBay before acquiring the name of PayPal.

Elon Musk co-founded Tesla Motors, which is now of the most famous electric vehicle companies. He is now the CEO of Tesla alongside being the CEO of SpaceX. The shares of Tesla went up by 740%, which brought Musk to the list of top 10 richest persons. And within January 2021 he became the richest person in the world. He has also initiated Twitter buyout worth of $44 billion in April 2022. However, within 3 months he decided to back out from the buyout, which resulted in lawsuits against him. However, his successful ventures through Tesla and SpaceX still make him remain as the 2nd richest person of the world.

1. Bernard Arnault

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Bernard Arnault is the richest personality of 2023 overtaking Elon Musk. He was reportedly the 4th richest personality in 2022, however, a sore in his wealth has crowned him as the topper of this list. He was born on 5^th March 1949, in Roubaix, France. He is the chairperson and the CEO of LVMH, the largest luxury goods company of the world. It owns brands like, Louis Vuitton, Hennessey, Sephora, and Marc Jacobs. Arnault’s most wealth comes from his dominant stake in Christian Dior. Moreover, he has an addition 6.2% of stake in LVMH. In 1987 LVMH invited him to invest in the company, which made him a major shareholder as well as the chairperson of board. Two years later he acquired the position of the CEO of the luxury goods company with an inflation of his wealth.

Apart from the top 10 personality, the name of Mark Zuckerberg needs to be mentioned. He is the founder and CEO of Meta Platforms. The share price of Meta went down significantly after the release of its disappointing earnings report. The net worth of Zuckerberg is reportedly $59.7 billion in September 2022, which pushed him out of the top 10 list.