Top Richest People in the world

 Top Richest People in the World



(1) Elon Musk



Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, one of the capital cities of South Africa,and was baptized into an Anglican church.                                                                                                  Musk has British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry. His mother is Maye Musk (née Haldeman), a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada and raised in South Africa.                                                                                                      His father is Errol Musk, a South African electromechanical engineer, pilot, sailor, consultant, and property developer who was a half-owner   of a Zambian emerald mine near Lake Tanganyika.                                                      Musk has a younger brother Kimbal (born 1972) and a younger sister Tosca (born 1974). family was wealthy during his youth.                                                                                                             His father was elected to the Pretoria City Council as a representative of the  anti-apartheid Progressive Party, with his children reportedly sharing their father's dislike of apartheid.                                                                                                            His maternal  grandfather, Joshua Haldeman, was an adventurous American-born  Canadian who took his family on record-breaking journeys in a single-engine Bellanca airplane to Africa and Australia.          After his parents divorced in 1980, Musk mostly lived with  his father.   Musk later regretted his decision as he has become estranged from his father. He has a paternal half-sister  and a half-brother.                                                      In his biography, Ashlee Vance described Musk as an awkward and introverted child.                                                                                                        When Musk was 10, he developed an interest  in computing and video games, so he brought a Commodore VIC-20[vague] and taught himself programming from a user manual.                                               At  age 12, he sold his BASIC-based game Blastar to PC and Office Technology magazine for approximately $500.

 



Jeffrey Preston Bezos  born 

January 12, 1964) is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor,  computer engineer, and commercial astronaut.                                                                                                       He is the founder, executive  chairman, and former president and CEO of Amazon. With a net worth of around  US$139 billion as of October 2022, Bezos is the third-wealthiest person in the world and was the wealthiest from 2017 to 2021 according to both Bloomberg's Billionaires Index and Forbes.                                                 Born in Albuquerque and raised in Houston and Miami, Bezos graduated  from Princeton University in 1986. He holds a degree in electrical engineering  and computer science. He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields  from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded Amazon in late 1994 on a road trip from  New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since  expanded to a variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is currently  the world's largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue,  and the largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch.                                                            Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services  company Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin's New Shepard vehicle reached space  in 2015 and afterwards successfully landed back on Earth.               He also purchased   the major American newspaper The Washington Post in 2013 for $250 million and  manages many other investments through his venture capital firm, Bezos  

Expeditions. In September 2021, Bezos co-founded biotechnology company Altos Labs with Mail.ru founder Yuri Milner.  first centibillionaire on the Forbes wealth index, Bezos was named the   "richest man in modern history" after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018. In August 2020, according to Forbes, he had a net worth   exceeding $200 billion. In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, his wealth  grew by approximately $24 billion. On July 5, 2021, Bezos stepped down as  the CEO and President of Amazon and transferred to the role of executive  chairman


Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos at Amazon Spheres Grand Opening in Seattle - 2018 (39074799225) (cropped).jpg
Bezos at the opening of Amazon Spheres in Seattle, 2018
Born
Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen

January 12, 1964 (age 58)
EducationPrinceton University (BSE)
Occupation
  • Entrepreneur
  • media proprietor
  • investor
  • computer engineer
Years active1986–present
Title
  • Founder and executive chairman of Amazon
  • Founder of Blue Origin
  • Founder of Bezos Expeditions
Spouse
(m. 1993; div. 2019)
Partner(s)Lauren Sánchez
(2019–present)
Children4
RelativesMark Bezos (half-brother)[1]
Signature
Jeff Bezos signature.svg

Bil Gates


William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist
    He is a co-founder of
Microsoft, along with his late childhood friend Paul Allen. 
During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions
 of chairman,
chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software  architect, while also being the largest individual shareholder until May2014.                                                                       He was a major entrepreneur of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.
          Gates was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. In 1975, he and Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico.   It became the  world's largest personal computer software company.                                                                                                  Gates led the company  as chairman and CEO until stepping down as CEO in January 2000, succeeded  by Steve Ballmer  During the late 1990s, he was criticized for his business tactics, which have been considered anti-competitive. This opinion has been upheld by numerous  court rulings. In June 2008, Gates transitioned to a part-time role at    Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the  private charitable foundation he and his then-wife, Melinda Gates, established in 2000.
   He stepped down as chairman of the board of Microsoft in February  2014 and assumed a new post as technology adviser to support the newly   appointed CEO Satya Nadella. In March 2020, Gates left his board positions 
at Microsoft and Berkshire Hathaway to focus on his philanthropic efforts on  climate change, global health and development, and education.

Bill Gates
Head and shoulders photo of Bill Gates
Gates in 2017
Born
William Henry Gates III

October 28, 1955 (age 66)
EducationHarvard University (dropped out)
Occupation
  • Software developer
  • investor
  • entrepreneur
Years active1972–present
Known forCo-founder of Microsoft and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Title
Board member ofBerkshire Hathaway
Microsoft (former, both)
Spouse
(m. 1994div. 2021)
Children3
Parents
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2005)
Websitewww.gatesnotes.com
Signature
William H. Gates III

                      Gautam Adani 

Gautam Shantilal Adani (born 24 June, 1962) is an Indian billionaire tycoon.    He is the chairman and founder of Adani Group, an Ahmedabad-based  multinational conglomerate involved in port development and operations in India.
 Adani is also the president of Adani Foundation, which is primarily led  by his wife, Priti Adani. As of 4 October 2022, with a net  worth of US$132.1 billion according to Forbes and $120 billion according to  Bloomberg, he is the richest person in both India and Asia.  
According to both the Bloomberg Billionaires Index and the Forbes Real Time  Billionaires list he is the fourth richest person in the world.

In 1981, his elder brother Mahasukhbhai Adani bought a plastics unit in Ahmedabad and invited him to manage the operations. This venture turned out to be Adani's gateway to global trading through polyvinyl chloride (PVC) imports.
In 1985, he started importing primary polymers for small-scale industries In 1988, Adani established Adani Exports, now known as Adani Enterprises, the holding company of the Adani Group. Originally, the company dealt in agricultural and power commodities.
In 1991, the economic liberalization policies turned out to be favorable for his company and he started expanding the businesses into trading of metals, textiles, and agro products.
In 1994, the Government of Gujarat announced managerial outsourcing of the Mundra Port and in 1995, Adani got the contract.
In 1995, he set up the first jetty. Originally operated by Mundra Port & Special Economic Zone, the operations were transferred to Adani Ports & SEZ (APSEZ). Today, the company is the largest private multi-port operator. Mundra Port is the largest private sector port in India, with the capacity of handling close to 210 million tons of cargo per annum.
In 1996, the power business arm of the Adani Group, Adani Power, was founded by Adani.
Adani Power holds thermal power plants with a capacity of 4620MW, the largest private thermal power producer of the country.
In 2006, Adani entered the power generation business.From 2009 to 2012, he acquired Abbot Point Port in Australia and Carmichael coal mine in Queensland.
In May 2020, Adani won the world's largest solar bid by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) worth US$6 billion. 
The 8000MW photovoltaic power plant project will be taken up by Adani Green; Adani Solar will establish 2000MW of additional solar cell and module manufacturing capacity.
In September 2020, Adani acquired a 74% stake in Mumbai International Airport, India's second busiest after
Gautam Adani
Gautam Adani.jpg
Official portrait in 2012
Born
Gautam Shantilal Adani

24 June 1962 (age 60)
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
NationalityIndian
EducationGujarat University (dropped out, 1978)[1]
Occupation• Businessman • Industrialist
Years active1981- present
Title
SpousePriti Adani
Children2, including Karan Adani
RelativesPranav Adani (nephew)
















                       

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