His wealth increased by $92 billion to $229 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
No one did better than Elon Musk, who reclaimed the title of the world's richest man from French luxury magnate Bernard Arnault. The CEO of Tesla Inc. has become $92 billion richer since the beginning of the year, based on the price of his shares at the close of trading on Friday. Elon Musk lost $138 billion last year.
Last year's list leader, Frenchman Bernard Arnault, chairman of the LVMH group (Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy), slipped back to second place, whose fortune rose by $17 billion to $179 billion.
The founder of Amazon.com Inc., Jeff Bezos, increased his fortune by $69.9 billion to $177 billion this year, which was enough for third place. Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, is fourth on the list of super-rich with $141 billion, which is $31.5 billion more than last year.
The ex-CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, is fifth on the list, his fortune increased by $45 billion to $131 billion. The driving force behind the list of the 500 richest people is the Swiss Thomas Straumann, a businessman active in the field of health care, whose fortune increased by $1.37 billion to $5.55 billion in one year.
Featured image: Elon Musk, CEO of American electric vehicle maker Tesla Motors and private American space exploration company SpaceX, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala on May 2, 2022, in New York. MTI/EPA/Justin Lane
