Forbes ranking 2021: the richest people in the world
Forbes ranking of the richest people in the world in 2021. Forbes TOP 200 billionaires are the richest people in the world. Who is the richest person in the world in 2021?
10. Mukesh Ambani
The chairman of the board of directors and the largest shareholder of the oil company Reliance Industries Mukesh Ambani is the only representative of Asia in the top ten of the rating. The company was founded in 1966 by his father Dhirubhai Ambani; in 2020, its capitalization reached $ 123.8 billion.
Outside India, Mukesh Ambani is better known as the owner of the world's most expensive private house - a 27-story skyscraper (because of the high ceilings, the height of the house is like a 60-story one) in the south of Mumbai worth $ 1 billion.
9. Sergey Brin
An entrepreneur founded Google in 1998 with Larry Page.
The partners met at Stanford University in 1995, where they studied computer science, and over time created the world's most popular search engine, and a whole ecosystem of services was built around it. In 2004, their company went public, and in 2015 changed its name to Alphabet.
8. Larry Page
In the first week of February 2021, Page's fortune rose $ 10 billion on the back of good earnings from Alphabet, Google's parent company, which rose more than 14% over the week. Also, the growth of the company's shares and Page's fortune spurred the presidential elections in the United States, or rather, the victory of the Democratic candidate Joseph Biden.
7. Larry Ellison
He founded software maker Oracle.
Today Oracle, where Ellison owns a 35.4% stake, is one of the largest software developers in the world, thanks in part to a series of hostile takeovers of competitors. In 2014, Ellison resigned as CEO, but retained his position on the board of directors and the position of technical director.
In the midst of the pandemic, in an alliance with the Donald Trump administration, Allison began developing a COVID-19 patient monitoring system that was supposed to help collect data for the development of a vaccine.
6. Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett operates investment house Berkshire Hathaway, which owns stakes in more than 60 companies, including the insurer Geico, battery maker Duracell and the Dairy Queen restaurant chain. The son of a US congressman bought his first stake at the age of 11 and filed his first tax return at 13. Over the course of his long life, he has become the undisputed authority on investment.
5. Mark Zuckerberg
Zuckerberg founded Facebook at Harvard in 2004 at the age of 19. In 2012, the company held an IPO. The entrepreneur owns 15% of the shares of the social network and has controlling voting rights in the business.
4. Bill Gates
Together with his wife Melinda, Bill Gates heads the world's largest private charitable foundation. The work of the organization is aimed at improving the global health system and has gained particular relevance against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic - the businessman has been a longtime advocate of the idea of the importance of universal vaccination and today is actively funding the development of a vaccine against COVID-19.
Gates sold most of his shares in Microsoft - he owns just over 1% of the company - and invested in the stock market and other assets. In March 2020, he resigned from the board of directors of the corporation, which he founded with Paul Allen in 1975.
3. Bernard Arnault and family
Bernard Arnault, who borrowed $ 15 million from the family's construction business to buy the Christian Dior fashion house in the mid-1980s, now oversees a global business empire of 75 luxury brands, including Louis Vuitton and Sephora. In 2019, LVMH's revenue fell 34% to € 4.7 billion. This is due to the pandemic and falling demand for luxury goods.
In January 2021, LVMH bought the Tiffany jewelry brand for $ 16.2 billion ($ 16.9 billion in debt). After that, Arno's fortune grew by more than $ 4 billion.
2. Elon Musk is Tesla's largest shareholder. According to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as of December 31, 2018, he directly and indirectly owns 38.6 million shares of Tesla (almost 22%). He also owns a stake in his private company SpaceX, which is valued at $ 12.5 billion.
1. Jeff Bezos is the founder of the Amazon online store. Today it is one of the largest online retailers in the world. In February 2021, Bezos announced his decision to step down as CEO of the company. Upon retirement, he will serve as executive chairman, with Andy Yassi, who is now CEO of Amazon Web Services, taking over. “When you have this responsibility, it’s difficult to focus on anything else,” Bezos wrote in a letter to employees about his decision. The freed time he decided to devote to charity. He also owns The Washington Post and the private aerospace company Blue Origin.
Amazon's revenue in 2020 increased by 38% to $ 386.1 billion.
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