{"id":823461,"date":"2025-02-01T07:12:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T13:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/mark-zuckerberg-the-biggest-gainer-of-the-worlds-top-ten-richest-february-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T07:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T13:12:39","slug":"mark-zuckerberg-the-biggest-gainer-of-the-worlds-top-ten-richest-february-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/01\/mark-zuckerberg-the-biggest-gainer-of-the-worlds-top-ten-richest-february-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Zuckerberg The Biggest Gainer Of The World&#8217;s Top Ten Richest (February 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3>This ultra-rich group is now worth more than $2 trillion. At least five of them attended Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration.<\/h3>\n<h4><sub>Last update: February 1, 2025, 12 A.M. EDT<\/sub><\/h4>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Lifted <\/strong>by a post-presidential-inauguration surge in stocks, the world\u2019s ten richest people got a collective $107 billion wealthier in the past month. Altogether they are worth $2.03 trillion, per Forbes estimates.<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk is still the world\u2019s wealthiest person, per Forbes, worth a remarkable $421 billion. It\u2019s the second month in a row he\u2019s started off with a fortune greater than $400 billion \u2013 a level no other billionaire has reached in the nearly four decades Forbes has been tracking the world\u2019s wealthiest people.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest gainer in the past month was Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who overtook Larry Ellison to become the world\u2019s third richest; he is now worth nearly $238 billion. Zuckerberg\u2019s fortune jumped by $35 billion in the past month as Meta shares popped up by 16%. Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan were featured guests at Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration on January 20, standing next to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fianc\u00e9e Lauren Sanchez and just feet away from Musk. Also in the crowd there: Google cofounder Sergey Brin, now ranked No. 7, and LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault, ranked No. 5.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos also got a notable bump in his fortune in the past month. The world\u2019s second richest person is $16.6 billion richer\u2013now worth $250 billion\u2013thanks to a rise in Amazon\u2019s stock price.<\/p>\n<p>One person not in the top ten this month: Nvidia cofounder and CEO Jensen Huang. News in late January about Chinese AI firm DeepSeek sent some tech stocks tumbling, including Nvidia\u2019s. Huang, who ranked No. 10 as of January 1 with a $117 billion fortune, has fallen to No. 16, worth $105 billion, due to the drop in Nvidia\u2019s shares.<\/p>\n<p>Replacing Huang in the top ten: Spanish clothing retail tycoon Amancio Ortega, who at No. 9 is worth $123.3 billion. Former Microsoft CEO and current LA Clippers owner Steve Ballmer fell from ninth last month to No. 10, with an estimated $122.9 billion fortune\u2013 just a few hundred million behind Ortega. Ballmer is the only one of the current top 10 whose fortune declined in the past month\u2013 a $1.4 billion drop.<\/p>\n<p><em>Forbes<\/em> has been keeping track of the world\u2019s billionaires since 1987. In April 2024 we found<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/billionaires\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/billionaires\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/billionaires\/\" aria-label=\"2,781 of them\"> 2,781 of them <\/a>for our annual list.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the 10 richest people on earth as of February 1, 2025 at 12 a.m. Eastern time, according to <em>Forbes<\/em>. Stock prices fluctuate routinely, so these net worths may change on a daily basis. <em>Forbes<\/em> tracks the daily changes on our<a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/real-time-billionaires\/#3971e7433d78\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/real-time-billionaires\/#3971e7433d78\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/real-time-billionaires\/#3971e7433d78\" aria-label=\"Real Time list of billionaires\"> Real Time list of billionaires<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><fbs-ad position=\"top\" progressive ad-id=\"article-0-top\"><\/fbs-ad><\/p>\n<hr>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Key Facts\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n <strong>Elon Musk <\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n is the richest person in the world, a title he reclaimed in late May 2024. His fortune surpassed $400 billion in December.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n \n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n <strong>Jeff Bezos <\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n the founder and chairman of Amazon, remains the world\u2019s No. 2 richest.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n \n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n <strong>Bill Gates<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n dropped out of the top 10 richest in October 2024 after Forbes obtained new information about a significant contraction in his fortune.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n \n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n <strong>8\/10<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n of the richest people in the world are Americans. The two non-U.S. citizens: France\u2019s Bernard Arnault and Spain\u2019s Amancio Ortega\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n \n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n <strong>All <\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\n of the top ten richest people as of February 1 are men. Each of them is worth $120 billion or more.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p><fbs-ad position=\"topx\" progressive ad-id=\"article-0-topx-1\"><\/fbs-ad><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>1. Elon Musk<\/h3>\n<h3>2. Jeff Bezos<\/h3>\n<h3>3. Mark Zuckerberg<\/h3>\n<h3>4. Larry Ellison<\/h3>\n<h3>5. Bernard Arnault<\/h3>\n<h3>6. Larry Page<\/h3>\n<h3>7. Sergey Brin<\/h3>\n<h3>8. Warren Buffett<\/h3>\n<h3>9. Amancio Ortega<\/h3>\n<h3>10. Steve Ballmer<\/h3>\n<h4><sub>*As of February 1, 2025 at 12 a.m. ET<\/sub><\/h4>\n<hr>\n<p><fbs-ad position=\"topx\" progressive ad-id=\"article-0-topx-2\"><\/fbs-ad><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure role=\"presentation\"><figcaption><small>Marlena Sloss\/Bloomberg<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>1. Elon Musk<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Net worth: <strong>$421.6 billion<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Source: <strong>Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, X<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Age: <strong>53<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Residence: <strong>Austin, Texas<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Citizenship: <strong>U.S.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Musk\u2019s fortune grew by $400 million in the past month\u2014a rounding error for someone worth more than $400 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, who donated more than $100 million to support Donald Trump in the November 2024 presidential election, was named by Trump as co-head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), an advisory group that will recommend cuts to government jobs, programs and spending. There are potentially significant conflicts of interest at play, given Musk\u2019s companies\u2019 ties to the federal government, including SpaceX (a customer of the Department of Defense) and Tesla (regulated by the Department of Transportation).<\/p>\n<p>Musk is CEO of electric car company Tesla and rocket firm SpaceX; chairman and chief technology officer of social media company X, formerly known as Twitter; and founder of artificial intelligence firm xAI. He owns 13% of Tesla stock and has pledged some of his stock as collateral for loans. The electric car maker\u2019s shareholders voted in June in favor of Musk keeping nearly $50 billion of performance based stock options in what a Delaware judge had earlier called \u201cthe largest potential compensation opportunity ever observed in public markets,\u201d when she voided the award this January and affirmed the ruling in December. But the matter won\u2019t be resolved anytime soon. A lengthy appeal of the Delaware ruling is likely to follow. Until Musk receives those options, <em>Forbes<\/em> will<strong> <\/strong>continue to discount the Tesla options from the pay package by 50%.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from South Africa, Musk moved to Canada before his 18th birthday, worked a variety of jobs, enrolled at Queen\u2019s University in Ontario and then transferred to University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in economics.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, he merged an online bank he cofounded, X.com with a similar outfit cofounded by Peter Thiel to form PayPal, which eBay bought in 2002 for $1.4 billion. He founded SpaceX in 2002 in El Segundo, near Los Angeles. In 2004 he joined Tesla as an investor and chairman, a year after it was founded; he was later granted the cofounder title. Musk, who became CEO of Tesla in 2008, took the company public in 2010. In September 2021, Musk became the world\u2019s richest person. Musk was also the world\u2019s richest person for most of 2022\u2014until December 2022, when a drop in Tesla\u2019s share price pushed down the value of his fortune. Musk became the world\u2019s richest person <em>again<\/em> on June 8, 2023 and held onto the number one spot for the remainder of 2023. He fell to No. 2 on January 31, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Musk became the world\u2019s richest person <em>yet again<\/em> in late May 2024, after his startup xAI raised $6 billion from private investors at a $24 billion valuation. xAI raised an additional $5 billion from investors in November, valuing the startup at $50 billion. He owns an estimated 54% of the company.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure role=\"presentation\"><figcaption><small>Michael Prince for Forbes<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>2. Jeff Bezos<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Net worth: <strong>$250.1 billion<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Source: <strong>Amazon<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Age: <strong>60<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Residence: <strong>Miami, Florida<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Citizenship: <strong>U.S.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Jeff Bezos created e-commerce giant Amazon in 1994 and ran it as CEO until July 2021 (he remains chairman); that same month he went to space on a rocket built by private rocket company Blue Origin, which he founded and has funded with billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon shares rose by about 7% during January, adding $16.6 billion to Bezos\u2019 fortune.<\/p>\n<p>Before founding Amazon.com in his garage in Seattle, he worked in New York at hedge fund D.E. Shaw. Amazon began as an online bookseller at a time when few people bought goods online. The company also grew to dominate cloud storage and moved into movie and series production to feed Amazon Prime Video.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos was the world\u2019s richest person on <em>Forbes<\/em>\u2019 list of the World\u2019s Billionaires from 2018 through 2021; he dropped to second richest on the 2022 billionaires list and No. 3 on the 2024 list.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Bezos and his wife MacKenzie divorced; as part of the settlement, she got 4% of Amazon\u2019s shares and he kept 12%. He has since sold and given away more of his stake and owns just under 10% of the company. Since Amazon went public in 1997, <em>Forbes<\/em> calculates that he has sold more than $38 billion worth of his stock. Through his Bezos Expeditions he has invested in an array of companies, including Airbnb and software firm Workday.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure role=\"presentation\"><figcaption>\n<p><small>Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>3. Mark Zuckerberg<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Net worth: <strong>$237.9 billion<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Source: <strong>Meta (Facebook)<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Age: <strong>40<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Residence: <strong>Palo Alto, California<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Citizenship: <strong>U.S.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Zuckerberg was the biggest gainer of the top 10 during January. His fortune grew $35.4 billion in the past month, as Meta shares climbed 16%.<\/p>\n<p>Zuckerberg cofounded Facebook\u2014now called Meta Platforms\u2014when he was a student at Harvard University in 2004. It has grown to be the world\u2019s largest social network, with several billion users globally. The company also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, both of which it acquired and greatly expanded. Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, took the company public in 2012 and still owns about 13% of it.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure role=\"presentation\"><figcaption>\n<p><small>Jamel Toppin for forbes<\/small><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>4. Larry Ellison<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Net worth: <strong>$213.4 billion<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Source: <strong>Oracle<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Age: <strong>80<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Residence: <strong>Woodside, California<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Citizenship: <strong>U.S.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Despite his fortune rising $3.7 billion during January, Ellison dropped one notch in the ranking from No. 3 last month as he was overtaken by Zuckerberg, who had a much bigger gain.<\/p>\n<p>On January 21, the day after Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, Ellison was on hand when Trump announced the Stargate Project, a venture with Ellison\u2019s firm Oracle, Chat GPT creator OpenAI, Japan\u2019s Masayoshi Son and his firm Softbank and MGX of the UAE. The group says it will spend $500 billion over four years to build AI infrastructure\u2014mainly data centers\u2014in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Ellison cofounded software firm Oracle in 1977 and ran it as CEO until 2014; he now serves as chairman and chief technology officer of the company.<\/p>\n<p>In 2012, Ellison bought 98% of the Hawaiian island of Lanai for $300 million. He also owns homes in California, Nevada and Florida. Ellison invested in Tesla and served on the board of the electric vehicle company from 2018 through August 2022.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><fbs-ad position=\"topx\" progressive ad-id=\"article-0-topx-3\"><\/fbs-ad><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure role=\"presentation\"><figcaption><small>Jamel Toppin for Forbes<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>5. Bernard Arnault<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Net worth: <strong>$189.2 billion<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Source: <strong>LVMH\/ luxury goods<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Age: <strong>75<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Residence: <strong>Paris<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Citizenship: <strong>France<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Bernard Arnault, CEO and chairman of luxury goods group LVMH, got $20 billion richer in the past month thanks to a nearly 12% increase in the price of the company shares. The group announced 2024 results on January 29; though revenue increased slightly, its profits fell 17% compared to the prior year. Shares fell on the news but still ended the month higher than when it started.<\/p>\n<p>Arnault\u2019s father made millions in the construction business; to get his start, Arnault used $15 million of that fortune to buy Christian Dior. He has since built the largest luxury goods company in the world with some 70 fashion and cosmetics brands, including Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior, Moet &#038; Chandon, Sephora and jeweler Tiffany &#038; Co.<\/p>\n<p>All five of Arnault\u2019s children work in parts of the LVMH empire. Earlier this year, Arnault nominated two of his sons\u2014Alexandre and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric\u2014to the board of LVMH and in November Alexandre was named deputy CEO of LVMH\u2019s wine and spirits division. His daughter Delphine, who runs Dior, and son Antoine, already sit on the board. In June he named son Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric as head of LVMH\u2019s family holding group. His youngest son, Jean, is director of watches at Louis Vuitton.<\/p>\n<p>Arnault was the world\u2019s richest person for most of the first half of 2023 and again from February through late May 2024.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure role=\"presentation\"><figcaption>\n<p><small>Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>6. Larry Page<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Net worth: <strong>$167.6 billion<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Source: <strong>Google<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Age: <strong>51<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Residence: <strong>Palo Alto, California<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong> <\/strong>Citizenship: <strong>U.S.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Page\u2019s fortune expanded by $11 billion in the past month, supported by a nearly 7% rise Google-parent Alphabet\u2019s shares.<\/p>\n<p>In late November the Department of Justice said Google should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/siladityaray\/2024\/11\/21\/force-sale-of-chrome-and-big-changes-to-android-search-the-dojs-proposal-to-crackdown-on-googles-search-monopoly\/\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/siladityaray\/2024\/11\/21\/force-sale-of-chrome-and-big-changes-to-android-search-the-dojs-proposal-to-crackdown-on-googles-search-monopoly\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/siladityaray\/2024\/11\/21\/force-sale-of-chrome-and-big-changes-to-android-search-the-dojs-proposal-to-crackdown-on-googles-search-monopoly\/\" aria-label=\"sell its Chrome browser\">sell its Chrome browser<\/a> in order to reduce the company\u2019s dominance online. In response, Google said in a statement that such a move would hurt consumers and America\u2019s technological leadership. The decision may have been one reason that Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai attended Donald Trump\u2019s inauguration.<\/p>\n<p>Page cofounded search engine Google with fellow Stanford PhD student Sergey Brin in 1998 and served as CEO until 2001 and from 2011 to 2015. He now serves as a board member of Google\u2019s parent Alphabet and continues to be a controlling shareholder.<\/p>\n<p>Page was a founding investor in asteroid mining company Planetary Resources, which was acquired by blockchain firm ConsenSys in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><fbs-ad position=\"topx\" progressive ad-id=\"article-0-topx-4\"><\/fbs-ad><\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure role=\"presentation\"><figcaption>\n<p><small>GETTY IMAGES<\/small><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>7. Sergey Brin<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Net worth: <strong>$159.8 billion<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Source: <strong>Google<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Age: <strong>51<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Residence: <strong>Los Altos, California<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Citizenship: <strong>U.S.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Like his Google cofounder Larry Page, Brin\u2019s fortune also rose in the past month \u2014up $10.8 billion\u2014as Alphabet shares rallied.<\/p>\n<p>Brin cofounded search engine Google with fellow Stanford computer science PhD candidate Larry Page. Like Page, he currently serves as a board member of Google\u2019s parent company Alphabet and is a controlling shareholder.<\/p>\n<p>Brin came out of semi-retirement to submit changes to Google\u2019s Gemini AI chatbot last year and was listed as a \u201ccore contributor\u201d when the model was released in December.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure role=\"presentation\"><figcaption><small>TIMOTHY ARCHIBALD FOR FORBES<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>8. Warren Buffett<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Net worth: <strong>$146.2 billion<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Source: <strong>Berkshire Hathaway<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Age: <strong>94<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Residence:<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Omaha, Nebraska<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Citizenship: <strong>U.S.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Buffett\u2019s fortune rose $4.5 billion during January amid an uptick in Berkshire Hathaway\u2019s A shares.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the &#8220;Oracle of Omaha,&#8221; Buffett is one of the most successful investors of all time. He runs investing conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, which owns dozens of companies, including insurer Geico, battery maker Duracell and restaurant chain Dairy Queen. The son of a U.S. congressman, he first bought stock at age 11 and first filed taxes at age 13.<\/p>\n<p>Buffett created the Giving Pledge with Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates in 2010, asking billionaires to commit to give away at least half their fortune to charitable groups. Buffett has said he would donate 99% of his fortune. So far he\u2019s give more than $60 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill &#038; Melinda Gates Foundation and foundations run by his children and one started by his late first wife. That includes $5.3 billion in June 2024.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure role=\"presentation\"><figcaption>\n<p><small>Getty Images<\/small><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>9. Amancio Ortega <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Net worth: <strong>$123.3 billion<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Source: <strong>Zara-parent Inditex<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Age: <strong>88<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Residence: <strong>La Coruna, Spain<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Citizenship: <strong>Spain<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Amancio Ortega rejoins the top ten richest after falling short at the beginning of January. At the start of December 2024, he was ranked No. 10, worth $123.8 billion. Shares of Inditex rose about 5% in January, giving Ortega\u2019s fortune a boost.<\/p>\n<p>Ortega, one of the pioneers of fast fashion, founded Inditex\u2014parent of the Zara chain of stores\u2014in 1975 with his then-wife Rosalia Mera. (They later divorced and she died in 2013.) He owns about 60% of Madrid-listed Inditex, which has eight brands including Massimo Dutti and Pull &#038; Bear, and 5,000 stores around the world. In 2022, after working at Inditex for 15 years, his daughter Marta Ortega P\u00e9rez became chairperson of the company.<\/p>\n<p>Ortega has invested dividends from the clothing business into commercial real estate in Europe and North America.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<figure role=\"presentation\"><figcaption>\n<p><small>mark lennhan\/ap<\/small><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>10. Steve Ballmer <\/strong><\/h2>\n<h4>Net worth: <strong>$122.9 billion<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Source: <strong>Microsoft, LA Clippers, investments<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Age: <strong>68<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Residence: <strong>Hunts Point<\/strong>, <strong>California<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4>Citizenship: <strong>U.S.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Ballmer fell from No. 9 in early December to No. 10 richest as a result of weakness in Microsoft shares, which dropped following its quarterly earnings report on January 29, reportedly because the company issued weaker-than-expected guidance for the next quarter. Ballmer\u2019s fortune fell $1.4 billion over the month.<\/p>\n<p>Ballmer, a classmate of Bill Gates\u2019 at Harvard University, joined Microsoft as employee number 30 in 1980 after dropping out of the MBA program at Stanford University. He ran Microsoft as its CEO from 2000 to 2014.<\/p>\n<p>When Ballmer retired from Microsoft, he purchased the Los Angeles Clippers team for $2 billion\u2014a record high for an NBA team at the time. <em>Forbes<\/em> now values the team at $5.5 billion. The new home for the Clippers, the Intuit Dome in Inglewood\u2014not far from Los Angeles International Airport\u2014opened in August 2024.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><fbs-ad position=\"topx\" progressive ad-id=\"article-0-topx-5\"><\/fbs-ad><\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong>Who is the richest man in the world?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>As of February 1, 2025, the richest person in the world is Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. He\u2019s worth $421.6 billion. He moved into the number one spot in late May 2024, overtaking Bernard Arnault of France.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2><strong>Who is the richest woman in the world? <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The richest woman in the world is Alice Walton, daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton. 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