China News Service, Guangzhou, March 25 (Reporter Wang Hua) Hurun Research Institute released the "2024 Hurun Global Rich List" on the 25th, showing that the number of billion-dollar entrepreneurs increased by 5% compared with the previous year, and total wealth increased by 9%. ; More than half of the new wealth comes from AI (artificial intelligence).
This is the 13th consecutive year that Hurun Research Institute has released the "Global Rich List". The rich list has 3,279 billion-dollar entrepreneurs from 73 countries and 2,435 companies on the list.
The deadline for wealth calculation is January 15, 2024. In the past year, the world added 167 billion-dollar entrepreneurs, an increase of 5% from the previous statistical year; total wealth increased by 9%, reaching 108 trillion yuan. The main sources of wealth are the financial services industry (10.1% of the population) and the consumer goods industry (8%); the food and beverage and real estate industries tied for third. 67% of the rich are self-made and 33% inherited their wealth. The average age is 66 years old.
According to the list, 52-year-old Elon Musk has regained the title of richest man with a wealth of 1.67 trillion yuan, thanks to Tesla's record delivery volume, which has caused its stock price to soar. At the same time, the valuation of Musk’s space exploration technology company SpaceX reached new heights.
Jeff Bezos, 60, rose to second place with a fortune of 1.33 trillion yuan, a 57% surge driven by Amazon's cloud computing gaining market share. The 74-year-old "King of Luxury Goods" Bernard Arnault lost 190 billion yuan, falling to third place with a wealth of 1.26 trillion yuan, due to the poor performance of the luxury goods industry.
The top ten richest people in the world include Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffett, Steve Ballmer, Bill Gates, Larry Page, Mukesh Ambani family. The threshold for entering the top ten is RMB 830 billion.
China and the United States are home to nearly half of the world’s known billion-dollar entrepreneurs. China is still the country with the most billion-dollar entrepreneurs in the world, with 814, and their average age is 60 years old. China also has the largest number of self-made female billion-dollar entrepreneurs in the world. From a city perspective, New York has once again become the world’s “billion-dollar entrepreneur capital.”
Hurun Report, chairman and chief research officer of Hurun Report, said that AI has had a profound impact on the "Global Rich List" for the first time this year, and more than half of the new wealth comes from AI. The wealth of cloud computing-related entrepreneurs such as Meta, Amazon, Google parent company Alphabet, Oracle, and Microsoft has increased significantly. Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s wealth has increased significantly, ranking among the top 30 in the world.
Others engaged in the semiconductor industry, such as Chen Tianshi of Cambrian, Cai Mingjie of MediaTek, and Dai Wenyuan of Beijing-based AI company 4Paradigm, have also seen their wealth grow rapidly. It is worth mentioning that although OpenAI has a valuation of nearly US$100 billion, its founder Sam Altman is said to have no shares and is therefore not on the list. (over)