15 members of the US$100 billion club – net worths, ranked: from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg to luxury mogul Bernard Arnault and financier Warren Buffett – but who’s the richest?

Oct 15 , 2024

Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and Tesla founder Elon Musk are all worth over US$100 billion. Photos: Reuters/AP

From the pioneering tech founders behind Google and Microsoft to the industry titans behind Walmart and Reliance, these founders and CEOs are worth over US$100b – here’s how they made their fortunes

Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg are among the handful of people on the planet with a net worth above US$100 billion.

Members of this elite group have amassed 12-digit fortunes by owning huge amounts of stock in some of the world’s most valuable companies. Most are founders and either current or former CEOs, and some, such as Warren Buffett, would be much richer if they didn’t give billions to charity.

There may be only 15 centibillionaires, but their combined wealth is around US$2.2 trillion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. That’s more than the US$1.9 trillion market capitalisations of Amazon and Google’s parent company, Alphabet.

Here’s the list of billionaires worth at least US$100 billion, showing Bloomberg’s estimate of their net worth at the time of publication, how much it’s changed this calendar year and the source of their wealth.

(All figures are correct as of September 12, 2024.)

1. Elon Musk

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X, attends the Viva Technology conference in Paris, France, in June 2023. Photo: Reuters

Net worth: US$248 billion

YTD change in wealth: +US$18.8 billion

Source of wealth: Tesla and SpaceX stock

Musk is the CEO of the electric vehicle maker Tesla and the spacecraft manufacturer SpaceX. He’s also the owner of X, the social network formerly known as Twitter.

His other businesses include The Boring Company, Neuralink and xAI.