There are 2,668 billionaires in 2022, the youngest being 19 years old. Among the new entries are Rihanna and the director of The Lord of the Rings. Among the Italians on the list, which are 52, in first place is Giovanni Ferrero
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Elon Musk Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. To crown the patron of Tesla for the first time and the ranking of the scroungers of Forbes, according to which Musk is worth 219 billion dollars . In second place is the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos with 171 billion , while in third position – for the third consecutive year – with 158 billion is Bernard Arnault,owner of the LVMH group which includes many fashion brands, including Louis Vuitton and Christian Dior, jewelery and publishing.
Followed by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett and there are also 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 Rihanna and Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of the Rings. Twelve under-30s in the rankings including the world’s youngest billionaire, Kevin David Lehmann , 19, heir to the German pharmacy chain, and Gary Wang , 28, of the Bahamas-based cryptocurrency exchange FTX.
The only millennial in the top 20 is Mark Zuckerberg, 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 is for March 11 and therefore, in Musk’s case, does not take into account his massive purchase of Twitter shares . However, the Musk-Bezos
remote challenge is not only played on bank accounts. In the rivalry that has distinguished them for months, Bezos challenges him in the internet satellitesannouncing a billion-dollar investment to bring the fleet of Project Kuiper, Amazon’s division of wide-bank networks, into low Earth orbit. Musk with his Starlink takes the lead in the challenge for the satellite internet, but Bezos does not intend to stand by and pushes on the accelerator to recover the lost ground and attempt the great overtaking.
While Bezos throws Musk the gauntlet and focuses on Twitter , in which he bought a 9.2% stakeraising quite a few perplexities on the part of the SEC regarding the timing of the official communication. Tesla’s boss 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 company’s number one, says he is “thrilled” by Musk’s entry: “He believes in service and is also critical of it. This is what we need to be stronger in the long term.” Jack Dorsey , the founder of Twitter, is also satisfied with the entry on the board : “I’m very happy”. How many billionaires are there in the world In 2022, 2,668
were registered, 87 fewer than 2021. War, pandemic and stock market crashes weighed. 40% of billionaires, however, have increased their assets. The United States leads the ranking with 735 billionaires and $ 4.7 trillion , followed by China with 607 billionaires and $ 2.3 trillion. Then there are India, Germany and Russia which lost 34 billionaires and over 260 billion dollars.
There are only 327 women: in the ranking there are Rihanna and Melinda French Gates , after her divorce from Bill Gates. the richest is Francoise Bettencourt Meyers of L’Oreal, in 14th place with 74.8 billion dollars.
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RihannaThe Italians in the ranking
Among the Italians on the list, which are 52, the richest and always Giovanni Ferrero , in 36th place among the 2,668 billionaires in the world, with 36.2 billion dollars . Followed by Leonardo del Vecchio, 52nd in the general classification, with 27.3 billion, Giorgio Armani with 7.8 billion and Silvio Berlusconi with 7.1 billion .
Then there are also Massimiliana Landini Aleotti, the owner of the pharmaceutical company Menarini who is the richest woman in Italy, Giuseppe De ‘Longhi , president of the homonymous household appliances group, Piero Ferrari, vice president and owner of 10% of the car company founded by his father, with 4.2 billion, the Perfetti brothers , owners of the Italian-Dutch brand candy giant and Patrizio Bertelli and Miuccia Prada . Among the 16 women in the ranking also Marina Caprotti , daughter of the founder of Esselunga, Bernardo Caprotti, with assets of 1.5 billion dollars.
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Giovanni Ferrero, Leonardo del Vecchio, Giorgio Armani and Silvio Berlusconi
