- Tech billionaires top the lists of the world’s richest people; however, these big businessmen have also lost exorbitant amounts in the last year
The great fortunes that the technology billionaires amass have not only placed eight great technology leaders among the 20 richest people in the world, but also, contradictorily, places them on the list of the people who have asked for the most money in the world. last year.
Technology overwhelms the positions of the lists of the richest people in the world: eight of the richest entrepreneurs in the world amassed great fortunes in this sector.
But his hegemony in the listings goes further, since seven of the 10 positions of the richest people in the world, in the Bloomberg list, are occupied by big tech leaders.
Between these seven characters they accumulate a net worth of more than $936,000 million dollars.
However, among the technological leaders, there are also the 8 entrepreneurs who lost the most money in the last year.
The 8 tech billionaires who lost the most money
8. Steve Ballmer
With a fortune of $94.6 billion, Ballmer is the ninth richest person in the world, according to Bloomberg. This billionaire amassed his fortune as CEO of Microsoft, the tech giant he led from 2000 to 2014.
In the last year, this billionaire lost $11 billion.
7. Larry Ellison
He amassed his fortune through the tech giant Oracle, which he co-founded in 1977. Today this is the largest company for database management.
His fortune amounts to $88.8 billion dollars and he had a loss of $18.4 billion dollars in the last year, which places him at number 10 of the richest people in the world.
6. Sergey Brin
He is one of two co-founders of the world’s largest search engine: Google, where his $103 billion fortune comes from.
In the past year, he lost $20.9 billion, making him the 6th richest person in the world.
5.Larry Page
The other co-founder of Google also appears in both lists. With a fortune of $107 billion, Page is the fifth richest person in the world.
Yet in the past year, this tech leader lost $21.3 billion.
4.Bill Gates
It is perhaps the most mythical name associated with technology. Gates co-founded Microsoft, one of the giants in the sector, a company from which he made his fortune estimated at $ 116,000 million, which leaves him in the fourth place of the richest people in the world.
In the last year, Gates lost $22.4 billion.
3.Elon Musk
Without a doubt he is the most controversial technology leader and also the richest in the world. His net worth amounts to $223 billion dollars, a product of his Tesla electric car factory and the multi-million dollar contracts that SpaceX, his other company, has won from NASA.
Musk lost $47.8 billion in the last year and is now facing trial over the cancellation of the $44 billion Twitter purchase.
2.Jeff Bezos
The mastermind of the giant of online veins: Amazon. His fortune soared from the changes in consumption forced by the covid-19 pandemic and the confinements.
Currently, he is the second richest person in the world, with a net worth of $140 billion.
However, over the last year, Bezos has lost $52.5 billion.
1.Mark Zuckerberg
His fortune was achieved through the creation of Facebook, one of the first social networks that would set the course for many other platforms.
Zuckerberg ranks as the 17th richest person in the world on Bloomberg, with a fortune of $63.8 billion.
In the last year, he lost $61.7 billion.
In total, the Big Eight tech billionaires lost $256 billion.