Here are the current richest people in the world in 2021 as of March. In looking at this list it is clear that founding and building a business while keeping a large amount of equity ownership in the company is the path to world class wealth. Nothing creates net worth on a larger scale than the leverage of building a business that can be taken public. Surprising that no one is on the top 20 list through real estate investments, but it does not create the same level of opportunity of scale. Steve Balmer is the only employee on this list as he was able to use his position as Microsoft employee #30 and CEO to get a large amount of equity in Microsoft early in its growth cycle. Other members of this list were founders or related to those who did. We all have the opportunity to invest in and trade the stocks of the public companies that these capitalists founded and grew to create their own mega net worths.
- Jeff Bezos $182.5 Billion, Amazon Founder, USA
- Elon Musk $165.5 Billion, Paypal, SpaceX, Tesla Founder, USA
- Bernard Arnault & family $159 Billion, Louis Vuitton Chairman and CEO, France
- Bill Gates $126.2 Billion, Microsoft Founder, USA
- Mark Zuckerberg $107 Billion, Facebook Founder, USA
- Warren Buffett $95.7 Billion, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO, USA
- Larry Ellison $90 Billion, Oracle Founder, USA
- Larry Page $88.8 Billion, Co-founder of Google, USA
- Sergey Brin $86.2 Billion, Co-founder of Google, USA
- Mukesh Ambani $81.6 Billion, Father founded Reliance Industries, India
- Amancio Ortega $77.1 Billion, Founder of Zara fashion chain, Spain
- Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family $76.5 Billion, Granddaughter of L’Oreal’s founder, France
- Steve Ballmer $69.9 Billion, Former CEO of Microsoft, USA
- Carlos Slim Helu & family $65.4 Billion, controls America Movil, Mexico
- Zhong Shanshan $64.9 Billion, chairs Nongfu Spring Water, controls Beijing Wantai Biological Pharmacy, China
- Alice Walton $63.1 Billion, Father founded Wal*Mart, USA
- Jim Walton $61.4 Billion, Father founded Wal*Mart, USA
- Ma Huateng $61.2 Billion, Cofounded Tencent, China
- Rob Walton $60.7 Billion, Father founded Wal*Mart, USA
- Michael Bloomberg $59 Billion, cofounded Bloomberg LP in 1981, USA
