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Meanwhile, Bill Gates in 1999 was worth nearly $150 billion in dollars adjusted to 2018. [4]. Elon Musk has since surpassed John D. Rockefeller as the richest person in the history of the United States, and of modern history, according to size of wealth compared to GDP. On December 2024 his wealth reached $474 billion dollars (1.61% of USA's ...
A little over a century ago, in 1916, legendary robber baron John D. Rockefeller became the world's first billionaire -- probably. Before the age of computerized records and the internet, measuring...
Although at his peak Van Rensselaer was one of the wealthiest Americans in history, he hit hard times and when he died in 1839, he left nothing but debts to his heirs. ... he was the richest man ...
The list also marks for the first time a French citizen was in the top position as well as a non-American for the first time since 2013 when the Mexican Carlos Slim Helu was the world's richest person. The list, like in 2022, counted 15 under 30 billionaires with the richest of them being Red Bull heir Mark Mateschitz with a net worth of $34.7 ...
Mark Zuckerberg is currently the third richest person in the world with a net worth of approximately $18079 billion. He started Facebook in 2004 when he was 19 years old and is now the co-founder ...
The Forbes 400 Richest Americans list has been published annually since 1982. The combined net worth of the 2020 class of the 400 richest Americans was $3.2 trillion, up from $2.7 trillion in 2017. [1] As of March 2023, there were 735 billionaires in the United States. [2]
The 20 richest people were worth $406 billion then, a fraction of the $3 trillion they're worth today. Musk alone is worth $454 billion today, exceeding the combined wealth of the top 20 in 2000.
Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, with an estimated net worth of US$436 billion as of January 22, 2025, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, [157] and $426 billion according to Forbes, [158] primarily from his ownership stakes in Tesla, Inc. and SpaceX. [159]