here's your Forbes daily briefing for Sunday March 3rd today on Forbes the top 10 richest people in the world March 2024 Forbes has been keeping track of the world's billionaires since 1987 last year we found 2,640 of them for our annual list throughout the year we update their fortunes on a daily basis many billionaires hold much of their net worth in the stock of the company they founded or co-founded as that stock price moves their Fortune moves along with it the reporting in the story and the numbers cited are as of Friday March 1st 2024 at 12:00 a. m. eastern time you might remember that billionaire Elon Musk lost his title as world's richest person in January as shares of his electric car maker Tesla slid and a judge in Delaware voided musk's 51 billion pay package leading Forbes to Discount his package of options while his fortune has now rebounded above $200 billion from 182.
5 billion he's still at number two but he's closed the gap between him and the richest person on Earth luxury goods Tycoon Bernard Arno of France Arno had a very good month adding $19 billion to his net worth now at $29. 8 billion but not quite as good as musk whose Fortune jumped 27 billion to$ 29. 7 billion neither had as good a month though as Mark Zuckerberg whose Fortune Rose by nearly $35 billion the biggest gain of any of the top 10 richest this was thanks to a big jump in the price of meta's stock it was enough to move Zuckerberg to number four in the world up from number five in February switching spots with Oracle Larry Ellison Zuckerberg's net worth is now $ 172.
2 billion Larry Ellison now at number five is worth $39. 48 replacing Google co-founder Sergey Brin at number 10 his Reliance Industries which had recently spun off its Financial Services arm hit an all-time high on February 15th on February 28th Disney announced that it would merge its operations in India with Amani's Reliance Industries in an 8. 5 billion dollar deal Amani is worth $14.
4 billion as of midnight on March 1st nine of the world's top 10 richest people are wealthier than they were a month ago together they are worth a combined 1. 56 trillion $15 billion more than a month ago at number three is Amazon founder Jeff Bezos with a net worth of $ 1995. 5 billion in July 2017 Bezos overtook Bill Gates to become the richest person in the world Bezos was the world's richest person on forbes' list of the world's billionaires from 2018 through 2021 during February 2024 his fortune Rose by $18 billion as the result of an uptick in Amazon shares rounding out the top 10 are some familiar names Warren Buffett Bill Gates Steve Balmer and Larry Page for full coverage and to see the whole list in detail check out the Forbes wealth teams piece on forbes.
