Elon Musk
Tech leaders continue to dominate the global wealth rankings, holding nine of the top 10 positions on the Forbes billionaires list released on November 1. However, a downturn across technology stocks over the past month erased a combined $273 billion from the fortunes of the world’s eight wealthiest individuals. A wave of disappointing corporate earnings and escalating market concerns over massive artificial intelligence (AI) expenditures pushed the tech-heavy Nasdaq down nearly 5%, triggering widespread declines among the industry’s most prominent founders and executives. Notably, 9 out of 10 in list are tech executives, with Warren Buffett the only exception. 1): The planet’s richest individual absorbed the steepest hit, shedding an estimated $68 billion. Musk’s net worth stood at $869 billion. The decline came as an 11% drop in SpaceX shares, which outpaced a 13% gain in Tesla stock. 2): Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has seen his net worth drop by an estimated $8 billion to $361 billion after Amazon shares fell 4%. 3) and Sergey Brin (No. 5): Alphabet’s cofounders saw steep losses after shares of Google’s parent company fell by more than 18%. Page dropped roughly $53 billion to sit at $233 billion, while Brin’s wealth shrank by about $49 billion to $214 billion. 4) and Mark Zuckerberg (No. 6): The bleeding continued for Dell Technologies and Meta. With Dell shares tumbling 21% and Meta sliding 15%, both Michael Dell and Mark Zuckerberg lost an estimated $40 billion each. Their net worths now sit at $229 billion and $211 billion, respectively. 9): Microsoft’s former CEO saw his fortune tick up by $1 billion to an estimated $162 billion, supported by a 2% rise in Microsoft stock.
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