Amazon-Founder Jeff Bezos (60) is back at the top of the ranking of the world’s richest people. The head of the car manufacturer Tesla and other companies, Elon Musk (52), had overtaken Bezos in 2021. According to an update of the Bloomberg billionaire ranking published on Monday, Bezos is now back in front with around $200 billion (184 billion euros), while Musk is behind with $198 billion.
Bezos founded the mail order company Amazon in 1994. In 2021 he handed over management of the group. According to Bloomberg, his wealth growth resulted primarily from the good development of the Amazon share price. If Bezos were to sell his shares, he would lose first place because of the taxes that would be due, as the “Wall Street Journal” reported.
Tesla share price decline reduces Musk’s wealth
Musk’s fortune, on the other hand, had recently decreased by around $30 billion due to a brief fall at Tesla. He also lost 56 billion euros because a judge in the US state of Delaware at the end of January canceled a Tesla stock compensation plan that had been granted to him in 2018. declared null and void.
In addition, four former top managers at Twitter, whom the tech billionaire fired when he bought the service, currently want to sue Musk for more than $128 million in severance pay. In more than a year, Musk’s side was only able to give flimsy reasons for the termination, according to a lawsuit filed on Monday by, among others, former boss Parag Agrawal (39) and the former legal manager Vijaya Gadde (50). There was initially no reaction from Musk.
The third richest person in the world is the head of the French luxury goods group LVMH, Bernard Arnault (75), with assets of $197 billion.