With Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jensen Huang leading the group of billionaires to a new milestone: a collective $10 trillion net worth,
The 500 wealthiest individuals in the world became much wealthier in 2024. The wealth of the three, as well.
As the fortunes of Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell, and Larry Ellison, was greatly boosted by an unstoppable surge in US technology stocks.
Over $600 billion was made by the eight IT giants alone this year, accounting for 43% of the $1.5 trillion rise in the 500 wealthiest individuals tracked by the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
However, Musk, the so-called “first buddy” of President-elect Donald Trump during his historic reelection campaign, was the one who controlled the richest people in the world in 2024.
