It was in fact Jeff Bezos who was set to become the first trillionaire. However, he is now forecasted to reach US$1.06 trillion in 2030, six years behind Musk in sixth place. Gautam Adani and Zhang Yiming are anticipated to be the next to amass more than US$1 trillion after Musk, according to the study.
Currently, no one has yet claimed trillionaire status, although some of the world's richest individuals may only be a few years away from this milestone..
No one has yet claimed the title of trillionaire, although the speed at which the world's wealthiest individuals have grown their fortunes suggests that it could happen in just a few years.
The Pennsylvania PR executive's account balance had swelled to not just a six or seven figure sum, but a ridiculous 17-figure sum of $92,233,720,368,547,800. That's $92 quadrillion – with a bit left over – and meant that he was briefly richest person in the world and the only quadrillionaire on Earth.
It was in fact Jeff Bezos who was set to become the first trillionaire. However, he is now forecasted to reach US$1.06 trillion in 2030, six years behind Musk in sixth place. Gautam Adani and Zhang Yiming are anticipated to be the next to amass more than US$1 trillion after Musk, according to the study.
Story highlights. When Chris Reynolds opened his June PayPal e-mail statement, something was off. The Pennsylvania PR executive's account balance had swelled to a whopping $92,233,720,368,547,800. That's $92 QUADRILLION (and change).
Tech mogul Elon Musk is the world's richest person, with an estimated net worth of $239 billion. His estimated fortune peaked at around $340 billion in November 2021 as Tesla shares soared. Musk is currently $38 million richer than LVMH's Bernard Arnault, the world's second-wealthiest person.
If you stacked $100 bills totaling $1 trillion on top of each other, the stack would be 631 miles high. This is what $1 trillion in spending look like.
Genghis Khan
Much of the wealth came from plunders, taxes and control of caravan routes along the Silk Road and provide the Mongols with valuable revenue. He owned 270,000 horses and precious stones diamonds worth $1 trillion and gold deposits weighing in at a whopping 2 million tons totaling $11 trillion alone.
To probably no one's surprise, Mukesh Ambani tops the list, and it goes on to include eminent personalities like Gautam Adani and Uday Kotak. In this post, we bring you a list of the top 10 richest people in India courtesy of Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires rankings, which keeps an eye out for billionaires globally.
Forbes' real-time data shows that as of June 2023, there are 48 Australian billionaires on the list of the world's richest people.
Now, after a trillion, there comes a number known as quadrillion, and then we have other numbers following it. These numbers are quintillion, sextillion, septillion, octillion, nonillion, and decillion.
And in fact, there exists yet another billionaire census, done by a research company called Wealth-X, that is considerably less so. In 2021, it counted 927 billionaires in the United States — some 203 more than Forbes did. It doesn't name any of them. Perhaps they're right about these 203 unnamed billionaires.
It isn't easy to become a billionaire especially if you haven't already made millions. You will need time, patience, investment savvy, and entrepreneurship to become a billionaire unless you are born into a family with billions that you stand to inherit.
What are the odds of becoming a billionaire? There are only slightly more than 500 billionaires in America, making your odds of becoming one roughly one in 578,508. Worldwide, there are 2,043 billionaires among 7.4 billion people. Still, the racial wealth gap continues: Only 11 of them are black.
As of July 1, 2023, the richest man in the world is Elon Musk, the CEO of electric car company Tesla; he's worth $237.7 billion. He moved into the number one spot in June, overtaking Bernard Arnault of France.
The President of the Pan-African Conglomerate, the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has again been ranked as the richest man in Africa for 12 years, according to Forbes. This was disclosed in a statement on Tuesday titled 'Forbes 2023 Index: Dangote Still Africa's richest for 12th consecutive year'.
2025. Gautam Adani & family would be a year behind Musk, with Adani reaching trillionaire status in 2025 at age 62 following his current rate of growth. Adani is the chairman of the commodity trading business Adani Group, founded in 1988.
Zimbabwe, the country that brought the world the one-hundred-trillion-dollar bill, has reached a new stage of monetary dysfunction. Because of a lack of small change, businesses have started printing their own “money”—scraps of paper, sometimes handwritten, that customers can use to pay for future purchases.
Augustus Caesar — Potentially the richest man of all time, he was the first emperor of the Roman Empire and valued at a rough estimate of $4.6 trillion in today's dollars. He personally owned a fifth of the wealth of an empire that accounted for about 30% of the gross domestic product of the whole world.
Augustus Caesar ($4.6 Trillion)
Now imagine having one-fifth of that amount as your personal wealth. As if that wasn't enough, Stanford professor Ian Morris concluded that Caesar personally owned all of Egypt, for a while.