Elon Musk: Far ahead of the rest of the rankings
Forbes' update at 9:45 AM on July 21 (Vietnam time) shows that billionaire Elon Musk currently owns assets worth 771.9 billion USD, continuing to hold the position of the richest person on the planet.
The gap between Mr. Musk and the second-ranked person is up to 483.5 billion USD. The asset size of his is even larger than the total assets of Larry Page and Sergey Brin combined.
Elon Musk is known as the leader of electric car company Tesla, aerospace technology corporation SpaceX and artificial intelligence company xAI. He is also the person behind infrastructure construction company The Boring Company and neurotechnology business Neuralink.
Most of this billionaire's assets are associated with the value of shares in technology companies. Therefore, assets can fluctuate strongly according to business valuations and the diễn biến of the stock market.
Larry Page: Holds second place with $288.4 billion
Ranked second in the list is Mr. Larry Page, co-founder of Google, with assets worth 288.4 billion USD.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google when they were research students at Stanford University. The two entrepreneurs developed the PageRank algorithm, an important platform that helps Google's search engine arrange and display results that suit users.
Although no longer directly managing daily operations at Alphabet, Google's parent company, Larry Page is still one of the most influential shareholders. His asset value is mainly associated with Alphabet shares and the growth prospects of this technology corporation.
Sergey Brin: Assets reach 266 billion USD
Mr. Sergey Brin ranked third in the ranking, with assets worth 266 billion USD.
Similar to Larry Page, Sergey Brin's assets mainly come from the shares he holds in Alphabet. The fact that the two co-founders of Google appear in the top three richest people in the world shows the increasing scale and influence of this corporation.
Alphabet currently has many important business areas, from search engines, online advertising, cloud computing to artificial intelligence. The growth of new technology segments has contributed to raising the value of shares and assets of the two founders.
Compared to Larry Page, Sergey Brin's assets are 22.4 billion USD lower.
Jeff Bezos: Fourth place with 259 billion USD
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos currently owns 259 billion USD, ranking fourth in the list of the 5 richest billionaires on the planet.
Mr. Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, initially an online bookstore. The business later developed into the world's leading e-commerce, logistics and cloud computing corporation.
Although he has left the position of CEO of Amazon, he still holds the role of Executive Chairman and owns a large number of shares of the group. The value of these shares continues to be the most important contributor to his assets.
Jeff Bezos's assets are currently about 7 billion USD lower than Sergey Brin's, showing that the gap between third and fourth places is not too large.
Mark Zuckerberg: Returning to the top 5 richest people in the world
Ranked fifth is Mr. Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook and CEO of Meta, with assets worth 221.5 billion USD.
Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook in 2004, when he was only 19 years old. The social network was initially built for students, then quickly expanded and became one of the largest online platforms in the world.
Facebook first issued shares to the public in 2012. By 2021, the company changed its name to Meta, expressing ambitions to expand operations to virtual reality technology, the virtual universe and artificial intelligence.
Mr. Zuckerberg currently owns about 13% of Meta's shares. In 2015, he and his wife, Ms. Priscilla Chan, pledged to spend most of their assets attached to Meta shares on charity activities throughout their lives.
With 221.5 billion USD, Mark Zuckerberg's assets are 37.5 billion USD lower than Jeff Bezos'.
Assets in the ranking can change daily, depending on stock price fluctuations, private enterprise valuation, and the general situation of the financial market.
