Top 10 Richest Men in the World: What you Need to know

Affluents are outsized in directing the global economy, politics, and philanthropy. Forbes shared the list of the top 10 billionaires, such as Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg.

The people on this list have even more influence and are members of an even more restricted club. A large portion of their fortune is still invested in the businesses they founded, and many of whom are founders of major technology companies.

 However, to avoid selling shares and postpone (or prevent paying taxes on unrealized capital gains for their successors), these billionaires can still borrow against their riches. Additionally, multibillionaires can use a variety of tax deductions to reduce their reported income, which can result in some years when they pay no income tax.

Let’s gain some insights into the richest people in the world.

10. Bill Gates

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Bill Gates is a renowned figure around the World, everyone is aware of his outstanding work and research he did in tech. His massive discovery of Microsoft is his unbeatable way to success. He started working with his childhood friend Paul Allen, to develop new software for original microcomputers.

Bill Gates owns the largest company in the world. The bulk of his wealth is in Cascade Investment LLC, a privately held vehicle that owns a variety of stocks.

9. Sergey Brin

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Surgey was born in Moscow, Russia, and his family immigrated to the United States in 1979 when he was six years old. His incredible journey towards success is worth considering for insight.

When Eric Schmidt became Google’s CEO in 2001, Brin, who had co-founded the company with Larry Page in 1998, was appointed president of technology. After Alphabet was founded in 2015, he continued in the same position there until 2019, when Sundar Pichai became the new CEO.

He’s big on biotech, and rumors suggest he’s working on life-extension tech.

8. Steve Ballmer

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After Bill Gates persuaded him to leave Stanford University's MBA program, Steve Ballmer joined Microsoft in 1980. He was the 30th person to work for Microsoft. In 2000, Ballmer succeeded Gates as CEO of Microsoft. He served in that capacity until his resignation in 2014. Ballmer was in charge of Microsoft's $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype in 2011.
 Ballmer is the largest individual shareholder in Microsoft, holding an estimated 4% of the company. Ballmer paid $2 billion to acquire the Los Angeles Clippers basketball team in 2014, just after he resigned as CEO of Microsoft.

7. Bernard Arnault

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Most of Bernard's wealth comes from his massive stake in LVMH. His shares in LVMH are held through entities affiliated with Financiere Agache, the investment firm that manages his fortune.

While working for his father’s construction company, Ferret-Savinel, business-savvy, he eventually became the company manager in 1971. In 1979, he changed Ferret-Savinel into Ferinel Inc., a real estate firm.

6. Larry Page

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Larry Page started his journey to fame and wealth in a college dorm room. In 1995, while attending Stanford University, Page and his friend Sergey Brin developed a new search engine technology they called Backrub because it could evaluate links to a page. Page and Brin then founded Google in 1998, where Page served as CEO until 2001 and again from 2011 to 2019.

5. Warren Buffett

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Warren Buffett is the most famous investor, he first bought shares in a textile company called Berkshire Hathaway in 1962, becoming a major shareholder by 1965. He expanded the company’s holdings to insurance and other investments in 1967.

Buffett is a famous buy-and-hold investor who expanded his business ventures by acquiring undervalued companies. He is also a notable Bitcoin skeptic

4. Larry Ellison

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Together with Oates and Miner, Ellison established Software Development Laboratories in 1977. He founded Oracle, the first commercial relational database application to use structured query language, which was published by the business two years later. In 1982, SDL changed its name to Oracle Systems Corporation due to the success of the database program. After 37 years, Ellison resigned as Oracle’s CEO in 2014. He became a member of the Tesla board in December 2018 and left in June 2022.

3. Mark Zuckerberg

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Another famous personality around the globe, who inspired many young tech students and entrepreneurs through his astonishing discovery of a platform that connects the whole world together. He developed Facebook with his fellow student Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes while attending Harvard University in 2004.

Facebook (now Meta) is the biggest platform tailored to provide social networking services, it is free and easy to use. Zuckerberg is now serving as a co-CEO.

2. Jeff Bezos

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Jeff Bezos founded Amazon.com in 1994 in a garage in Seattle. He pitched the idea of an online bookstore to his former boss, David E. Shaw, who never showed any interest.

Bezos owned as much as 16% of Amazon in 2019 before transferring 4% to his former wife, as part of their divorce proceedings. Amazon’s share price jumped 67% in 2020, heightening the demand for online shopping amid the COVID-19 pandemic. He paid $500 million for a superyacht, in 2023, Koru.

1. Elon Musk

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Elon is the richest and most intelligent man in the world. His popularity started when he became the major funder of Tesla Motors (now Tesla), and now he is playing the role of CEO of the electric vehicle company.

In 2021, this company became the largest company in the world, becoming the richest person in the world.

1: List the top 10 richest men in the world?

1. Elon Musk –net worth $433.9 billion.
2. Jeff Bezos –net worth $ 239.4 billion.
3. Mark Zuckerberg –net worth $ 211 billion.
4. Bernard Arnault –net worth $167 billion.
5. Warren Buffett –net worth $166 billion.
6. Larry Ellison –net worth $162 billion.
7. Bill Gates –net worth $161 billion.
8. Larry Page –net worth $141 billion.
9. Sergey Brin –net worth $133 billion.
10. Steve Ballmer –net worth $132 billion.

2: Who is the richest man as of 2025?

Elon Musk is considered the richest man in the world with $433.9 billion of net worth.

3. What country is the richest in the world?

With a GDP per capita of 154,914 USD, Luxembourg is the richest nation in the world.  The nation's sophisticated and well-organized financial sector makes this feasible.