Elon Musk overtook Jeff Bezos to become the richest person in America. He has not only reached the top of the richest people in America but also the second richest in the world on Forbes’ 2022 list of the world’s billionaires. initially appeared on the Forbes billionaires list in 2012, with a net worth of $2 billion. Last year, the Tesla CEO sold more than $16 billion in Tesla stock in two months, resulting in the biggest one-year tax bill ever for a person. Over the last year, his fortune has increased by $68 billion.

Elon Reeve Musk is a business tycoon and entrepreneur who was born on June 28, 1971. His wealth comes from Tesla Inc. and SpaceX. He is the CEO and chief engineer of SpaceX as well as the CEO and product architect of Tesla, Inc. Elon Musk is a University of Pretoria, Queen's University, and University of Pennsylvania graduate (where he obtained a degree in BS and BA; 1997).

Elon Musk has won numerous awards for his contributions to the fields of technology and business. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 2018.

Net worth: $219 billion

Jeffrey Preston Bezos, better known as Jeff Bezos, is the CEO and Founder of the famous international technology corporation, Amazon. He is a Princeton University graduate and a US-born entrepreneur and business magnate. Jeff Bezos was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on January 12, 1964, and was raised in Houston, Texas.

Jeff Bezos has received numerous honors, including Time's Person of the Year in 1999, U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Person award in 2008, and Fortune's Business Person of the Year award in 2012.

For the first time in four years, Jeff Bezos is no longer the richest person on the planet. Due to a 3% dip in Amazon shares and an increase in his charity donations, his fortune is $6 billion lower than a year ago. He has focused on other endeavors since stepping down as CEO in July: his commercial space company, Blue Origin, launched him into the heavens last summer; he has reportedly purchased a superyacht, and he increased his charitable giving by donating more than $1 billion in 2021 to causes like Barack Obama's foundation and environmental groups.

Net worth: $177 billion

Bill Gates is an American-born software whiz, investor, and commercial magnate. Bill Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Washington, and is a high school dropout who did not complete his academic studies at Harvard University after making a name for himself in software creation.

When he co-founded Microsoft, he began his road to becoming one of the richest in America. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation founder and CEO of Cascade Investment. Bill Gates' contribution to technology has been recognized in numerous ways. First, Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential persons of the twentieth century, as well as one of the 100 most influential people of 2004, 2005, and 2006. Due to his contributions to the development of personal computing, Bill Gates was inducted into the US National Academy of Engineering in 1996.

The now-divorced Microsoft cofounder has been busy writing, with a book on how to combat climate change out last year and another due out in May on how to avoid another pandemic. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation joined a group in March to explore medication options to fight future global epidemics.

Net worth: $129 billion

4th on the list of the top 10 richest people in America is Warren Edward Buffet. He is the CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and one of the wealthiest and most successful American businessmen in the United States. He is also the world's seventh-richest person. Warren Buffet was born on August 30, 1930 in Nebraska, United States of America. During his younger years, I was interested in investment and business. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School before going to Columbia Business School.

Warren Edward Buffet took over as chairman and major shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway in 1970. He is the founder of The Giving Vow, an initiative in which billionaires pledge to donate half or almost half of their wealth to charity.

Following a series of acquisitions, Berkshire Hathaway's stock has reached new highs. Buffett made a smart gamble on Activision Blizzard last October, investing $1.1 billion in the video game company's stock just three months before Microsoft agreed to buy it for $69 billion. Occidental Petroleum stock was purchased for $7 billion by Berkshire Hathaway this year, despite rising oil prices. He was the driving force behind Berkshire Hathaway's $11.6 billion cash purchase of insurer Alleghany in March. Warren Buffet was named the top money manager of the twentieth century in a survey conducted by the Carson Group in 1999.

Net worth: $118 billion

He is the current Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Alphabet Inc., Google's parent company. Larry Page has a net worth of up to 63.7 billion dollars as of March 2020. He remains a member of the Alphabet Board of Directors and a majority shareholder, alongside Sergey Brin, the co-founder of the Google search engine, the world's most popular search engine.

He is a computer scientist who earned his Bachelor of Science (BS) and Master of Science (MS) degrees from the University of Michigan and Stanford University, respectively. Larry Page, a co-creator of PageRank, a Google search ranking algorithm, was born on March 26, 1973, in Michigan. In 2004, he and co-writer Brin shared the Marconi Prize.

The creation of Google brought them immense success, as it quickly became the world's most popular search engine, earning them billions of dollars. In 2002, Larry Page and his colleague Sergey Brin were selected as Global Leaders for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. Page and Brin received an MBA award from IE Business School the next year for exemplifying the entrepreneurial spirit and accelerating the formation of new firms. In August 2017, Page was granted honorary citizenship of Agrigento, Italy.

Net worth: $111 billion

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin is an American computer scientist and co-founder of Google, as well as the President of Alphabet, Inc., Google's parent company. For the first time since 2017, Google co-founders Page and Brin, who jointly own a majority stake in the firm and sit on its board of directors, began selling shares last year. According to Forbes, everyone has earned more than $1 billion since May 2021.

Sergey Brin was born in Moscow, Russia, but obtained US citizenship in 1979. He received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, before going on to Stanford University for his Master of Science degree. On August 21, 1973, Brin was born.

Sergey Brin has won numerous honors for his contributions to the worlds of technology and computers. Brin was recognized as one of the top 100 innovators under 35 years old in the MIT Technology Review TR100, along with his colleague Larry Page. Award Recipients and National Finalists for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year award went to Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Sergey is now one of the top ten richest people in America, with a net worth of $107 billion.

Net worth: $107 billion

Lawrence Joseph Ellison, better known as Larry Ellison, is the CEO of Oracle Corporation. He was born in the United States. In 1977, he started Oracle Corporation. Larry Ellison, a New York native, was recently named tenth on Forbes' list of the world's wealthiest people. He is the proud owner of Lanai, a Hawaiian island with a population of approximately 3000 people. He bought this island of Lanai for $300 million in 2012, and he owns at least ten residences on Malibu's swanky Carbon Beach. The island is ranked 41st among the United States' largest islands.

Oracle's chairman and former CEO are worth more than $10 billion this year, thanks to the company's successful shift to the cloud. In September, Ellison paid $345 million for a Lake Tahoe lodge. In 1997, the American Academy of Achievement presented Larry Ellison with the Golden Plate Award. The Bay Area Business Hall of Fame inducted Ellison in 2013. In 2020, he also started Sensei, a health company based on the Hawaiian Island of Lanai. He also joined the Tesla, Inc. board of directors after purchasing 3 million shares in 2018.

Net worth: $106 billion

Steve Ballmer is an American businessman who spent 14 years as the CEO of Microsoft Corporation. He is currently the owner of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers (National Basketball Association). In 2017, Ballmer established USA Facts. Org, a non-profit organization focused on providing information about US government revenue and expenditures, as well as other societal impacts.

Steve Ballmer was born in Detroit, Michigan, in the United States. On March 24, 1965, he was born. Following Roberto Goizueta, Steve Ballmer became the second person to become a billionaire in US dollars as a result of stock options he obtained while working for a company where he was neither the chairman nor a co-founder.

Forbes estimates that the Los Angeles Clippers, which the former Microsoft CEO purchased for $2 billion eight years ago, are now worth $3.3 billion. Not a bad profit margin. Ballmer's net worth has increased by more than $65 billion as a result of Microsoft stock, which has increased by more than 600 percent over the same period.

Net worth: $91.4 billion

Michael Bloomberg was born on February 14th, 1942, in Medford, Massachusetts, a small town near Boston. Bloomberg had to work as a security guard and take care of a car while at university to help pay for his tuition. Bloomberg began his career at Salomon Brothers New York after earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a master's degree in business administration from Harvard University.

After leaving Salomon, Michael Bloomberg decided to put what he had learned into practice by founding Innovative Market Solution. The firm was founded to assist stock market traders with data and information. In 1986, Bloomberg changed its name to its own. He paid $200 million for a third of Merrill Lynch's holding company in 1989. The corporation now has a market value of $2 billion. Bloomberg, which included Bloomberg News and Bloomberg TV, became one of the most popular media brands of the time.

In November, the guy behind the Bloomberg terminals, which power Wall Street, committed $120 million to battle drug overdoses and $750 million to fund charter schools. In the 2020 election season, New York's former mayor spent $1.2 billion supporting Democrats (including more than $1 billion on his own failed White House bid). In a recent opinion article, he warned Democrats that "without a quick course adjustment, the party is destined for a wipeout in November."

Net worth: $82 billion

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg had already become the world’s youngest self-made billionaire in 2007, at 23 years of age. He is a Facebook, Inc. co-founder. Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is also a co-founder of Breakthrough Starshot, a Solar Sail spaceship development project. Mark was born on May 24, 1984, in White Plains, New York, the United States.

On February 4, 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, a Harvard University graduate, started the Facebook Social Networking site. The rapid expansion of Facebook beyond colleges made Mark Zuckerberg take Facebook officially to the public after it had recorded up to one billion users in 2012.

In 2016, Mark Zuckerberg ranked 10th on Forbes of The World’s Most Powerful People. Today, he is the youngest in the top 10 richest people in America. In October, Facebook changed its name to Meta Platforms to focus on establishing a nebulously defined (and potentially undesirable) tech utopia known as the "metaverse." He has excellent cause to flee the physical world, where Meta stock has fallen by half since its peak in September. For the first time in six years, he has dropped out of the top ten richest people on the planet.

Net worth: $67.3 billion