Elon Musk surpasses Jeff Bezos to become the richest in the world

Elon Musk

is the richest man in the world.

To crown the patron of Tesla for the first time is the ranking of the Scrooge of Forbes, according to which Musk is worth

.

In second place is Amazon founder

with

, while in third position - for the third consecutive year - with

is

owner of the LVMH group which includes many fashion brands, including Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior, jewelery and publishing.

and 

follow ,

and there are also some new entries: Melanie Perkins, the 34-year-old co-founder and CEO of Canva, and Vlad Yatsenko, the 38-year-old co-founder of the digital bank Revolut.

But also

and

director of Lord of the Rings.

Twelve under 30 in the rankings including the youngest billionaire in the world,

, 19, heir to the German pharmacy chain, and

, 28, of the cryptocurrency exchange platform FTX, based in the Bahamas.

The only millennial in the top 20 is

creator of Facebook and current CEO of Meta Platforms, the company that controls Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp.

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Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Bernard Arnault

The Musk-Bezos challenge

The ranking data refers to March 11 and therefore, in Musk's case, does not take into account his

. 

remote challenge

is not played only on bank accounts.

In the rivalry that has distinguished them for months, Bezos challenges him in

by announcing a billionaire investment to bring the fleet of Project Kuiper, Amazon's division for broad bank networks, into low Earth orbit.

Musk with his Starlink takes the lead in the challenge for the internet via satellite, but Bezos does not intend to stand by and pushes on the accelerator to recover the lost ground and attempt the big overtaking.   

While Bezos throws the gauntlet at him, however, Musk is concentrated on

, in which he bought a

, raising many concerns on the part of the SEC for the timing of the official communication.

The Tesla patron will sit on Twitter's board of directors until 2024. In his new role, he will not be able to increase his stake in the company beyond 15%.

Parag Agrawal, the number one of the company, says he is "excited" by Musk's entry: "he believes in the service and is also critical of it. This is what we need to be stronger in the long term".

, the founder of Twitter, was 

also satisfied with the entry on the board : "I'm very happy".

How many billionaires are there in the world

were registered

, 87 fewer than in 2021. War, the pandemic and the collapse of the stock markets have weighed.

However, 40% of billionaires have increased their wealth.

The United States leads the table with

and

, followed by

with

and $2.3 trillion.

Then there are India, Germany and Russia which has lost 34 billionaires and over 260 billion dollars.

Women are only 327: in the ranking there are

, after her divorce from Bill Gates.

the richest is

of L'Oreal, in 14th place with 74.8 billion dollars. 

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The Italians in the standings

Among the Italians on the list, who are 52, the richest is always

, in 36th place among the 2,668 billionaires in the world, with

.

Followed

52nd in the general classification, with

Giorgio Armani with

and

with

.

Then there are also

the owner of the pharmaceutical company Menarini who is the richest woman in Italy,

, president of the household appliances group of the same name,

, vice president and owner of 10% of the car company founded by his father, with 4.2 billion, the

brothers

, owners of the Italian-Dutch brand candy giant and

.

, daughter of the founder of Esselunga, Bernardo Caprotti, is also among the 16 women in the standings

, with assets of 1.5 billion dollars.

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