Elon Musk still leads ranking of the 10 richest people in the world

The year 2024 is gone, but last year's billionaire, who was the richest person in the world, remains the richest in January 2025. The new year initiate brings Elon Musk, which besides being the biggest heritage Liquid on the planet, according to Forbes, in almost 40 years, no other has reached such a feat.

The mega businessman starts the year with its estimated wealth of US $ 421.2 billion (R $ 2.61 trillion). The amount, in a period of thirty days, suffered a significant increase of US $ 91 billion (R $ 564.2 billion). Musk's fortune was positively impacted with Spacex's agreement to repurchase actions by internal investor, post-assessment raising the company of rockets to $ 350 billion ($ 2.17 trillion), more than half the value Previous, estimated at US $ 210 billion (R $ 1.3 trillion). Musk, founder of Spacex in 2002, besides being CEO, today has about 42% stake.

Currently, Spacex is considered the most valuable company in the world, within the private sector, leaving behind the bytedance giants (Tiktok), OpenAi (ChatgPT) and the Stripe Online Payment Company. The billionaire leads Tesla, an electric vehicle manufacturer, and has participation in other companies such as Social X Network, Artificial Intelligence Xai and Tunnel Company Boring Co.

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Musk is not only the richest in the world, but also a great influence consultant in the current US government management. Following the victory of Donald Trump, elected president of the US country, the owner of Tesla, assumed the position of co-leader of the advisory body, the department of government efficiency (doge), created exclusively for reducing spending , increasing government efficiency.

_{Jensen Huang, new to Forbes's January 2025 list (Photo: Reproduction/Nvidia)}

Alternations in the financial ranking, it is more common than one might imagine, and this time, the stir on the richest board brings a stamped figure in the technological environment, Nvidia's CEO and co -founder Jensen Huang, appearing tenth with a fortune Estimated at US $ 118 billion (R $ 731.6 billion), leveraged by its shares at the chip manufacturer, post-elevation of 171% in 2024. Huang company, capitalized at US $ 3.28 trillion (R $ 20 , 3 trillion), ended the year with the value above Microsoft, losing only to Apple in the sector.

Jeff Bezos, founder and chairman of the Amazon Council, with 9% of the company, left behind none other than Oracle's chairman Larry Ellison, assuming the second position of the ten largest billionaires in January 2025.

_{Second place in the Forbes ranking in January 2025, Jeff Bezos (Photo: Reproduction/Amazon)}

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Forbes released the list of the ten largest billionaires on January 1, with the following order:

Elon Musk, 53 years old – US $ 421.2 billion (R $ 2.61 trillion)

Source: Tesla, Spacex, Xai, X

Jeff Bezos, 60 years – US $ 233.5 billion (R $ 1.45 trillion)

Source: Amazon

Larry Ellison, 80 years old – $ 209.7 billion ($ 1.30 trillion)

Source: Oracle

Mark Zuckerberg, 40 years – US $ 202.5 billion (R $ 1.25 trillion)

Source: Meta (Facebook)

Bernard Arnault, 75 years old – US $ 168.8 billion (R $ 1.05 trillion)

Source: LVMH / Luxury Goods

Larry Page, 51 years – $ 156 billion ($ 967.2 billion)

Source: Google

Sergey Brin, 51 – $ 149 billion ($ 922.8 billion)

Source: Google

Warren Buffett, 94 years old – USS 141.7 billion (R $ 878.5 billion)

Source: Berkshire Hathaway

Steve Ballmer, 68 – USS 124.3 billion (R $ 769.9 billion)

Source: Microsoft, Clippers, Investments

Jensen Huang, 61 years old – US $ 117.2 billion (R $ 725.4 billion)

Source: NVIDIA

The select list has the largest tycoons of recent times, and a sum of assets equivalent to $ 1.9 trillion (R $ 11.78 trillion). In this ranking of January, seven of the ten listed people have their assets larger than on December 1, 2024. According to Forbes, this ranking is unstable due to the instability of companies in the market.

PHOTO HIGHLIGHT: Elon Musk attend the 10th Annual Revelation Award at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on April 13, 2024 in Los Angeles, California (Reproduction/Getty Images Embed/Kevin Winter)