Forbes reveals list of the richest men in the US

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MEXICO CITY (SUN).- Forbes released its annual list of the richest Americans. Within that count, the top 20 include personalities with fortunes valued at more than 36 billion dollars.

The top 20 are made up of businessmen who own transnational chains such as Walmart or Nike; to financial investors and, of course, CEOs of technology giants such as Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Facebook, Google and Microsft, among others. Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Bill Gates top the Forbes list, in which eight billionaires have a net worth of more than $100 billion.

Here are the 20 fun facts about the 20 richest American billionaires in the world:

1. Jeff Bezos.- He is the executive president of Amazon, an electronic commerce giant, whose assets are 201 billion dollars. He is also the first person on Forbes' annual list with a fortune greater than 200 billion.

2. Elon Musk.- The owner of the Tesla and SpaceX companies, revolutionaries in land transport and space rockets, has a net worth of 190.5 billion dollars. Thanks to the sale of emission credits, he registered a very high income that boosted his fortune by almost 120 billion, since in the 2020 ranking he had a fortune of 68 billion.

3. Mark Zuckerberg.- At 37, the CEO of Facebook, a leading company in social networks (also a conglomerate of WhatsApp and Instagram), is the youngest billionaire in the count. His wealth in 2021 is valued at $134.5 billion. His wealth increased by almost 50 billion compared to 2020; However, after the worldwide interruption of its services and a scandal over unethical practices, Facebook lost 5.9 billion on the Wall Street stock market, which represented a 4.9% drop in its shares.

4. Bill Gates.- The co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist owns 134 billion dollars. And this 2021 is the first time that he has come out of the dispute for the first two places in the ranking of the richest; the cause is his separation from Malinda French Gates, his spouse, to whom he transferred a fortune of 5.7 billion in shares.

5. Larry Page.- Member of the board and majority shareholder of Google has a fortune of 123 trillion (thousands of millions) of dollars. In just one year he managed to double his wealth, since in 2020 Forbes reported that he had 67.5 billion dollars. Larry Page stepped down as CEO of Alphabet, Google's parent company, in December 2019.

6. Sergey Brin.- The 48-year-old Californian, like Larry Page, Sergey Brin resigned from Alphabet, Google's parent company, in December 2019, but remains a controlling shareholder and board member. This 2021 accumulates a fortune of 118 thousand 500 million dollars, that is, 53 thousand 200 million more than in 2020.

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7. Larry Ellison.- He is president, CTO and co-founder of the software giant Oracle, of which he owns around 35.4%. It accumulates 117 thousand 300 million dollars. He owns the yacht "Rising Sun", one of the largest pleasure boats in the world, with a length of 138 meters.

8. Warren Buffett. He is 91 years old and is known as the "Oracle of Omaha", he is one of the most successful investors of all time. It owns 102 billion dollars. He has said that he started too late in his investments in the stock market, being that he was 11 years old when he bought his first share, eight decades ago.

9. Steve Ballmer. Who was CEO of Microsoft from 2000 to 2014, is the ninth-richest American in the world with $96.5 billion in his coffers. He also owns the Los Angeles Clippers NBA team. His net worth increased according to the Forbes count by 27 thousand 500 million dollars this year.

10. Michael Bloomberg The co-founder of the financial information company Boomberg LP, at age 79, has a fortune estimated at 70 billion dollars, 15 billion more than last year. Michael Bloomberg has been the boss of many things: CEO of a financial data company, mayor of New York, the most populous city in the United States, head of a national gun control group, and founder of a news agency that carries his name. name. Now according to a BBC note, the 10th richest man "seeks to occupy the most powerful seat in the country (the presidency): this time as a Democrat."

11. Jim Walton The youngest son of Sam Walton, founder of Walmart, accumulates 68.8 billion dollars. Walton is also president of the family's Arvest Bank, which today has assets of more than 20 billion dollars.

12. Alice Walton Another member of the wealthy Walton family, who is in fact the only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton. In his coffers he has 67.9 billion dollars, which implies 5.6 billion more than in 2020 when his wealth was estimated at 62.3 billion. She is the woman with the highest position in the Forbes ranking. In 2011, he opened the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in his hometown of Bentonville, Arkansas, showcasing works by artists including Andy Warhol, Norman Rockwell, and Mark Rothko.

13. Rob Walton The eldest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton has $67.1 billion in his accounts. Being of the children of Sam Walton the one with the least wealth. In 1992, he assumed the chairmanship of WalMart upon the death of his father, retiring in 2015. He and other Sam Walton heirs collectively own approximately half of Walmart's shares.

14. Phil Knight The founder of Nike, one of the most recognized sportswear and footwear brands on the planet, has a fortune of 59.9 billion dollars. In the last year, its income increased by 20.7 billion dollars. Knight retired as president of Nike in June 2016 after 52 years with the company. He has said he will donate $500 million to both the University of Oregon and the Stanford Graduate School of Business, his alma maters.

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15. MacKenzie Scott The second woman in the Forbes count, it is estimated that she owns 57 billion dollars. She is the author of two novels and was a student of author Toni Morrison at Princeton. She is the ex-wife of Jeff Bezos, to whom she was married for 25 years. They divorced in mid-2019, and Scott received 25% of Bezos's stake in Amazon, which was 4% of the company.

16. Charles Koch He was president and director of the largest private company in the United States, by revenue, since 1967: Koch Industries. Its capital stands at $51 billion, up $6 billion from 2020. Diversified Koch Industries has about $115 billion in revenue from businesses that include pipes, chemicals, Dixie cups and Stainmaster carpeting.

17. Julia Koch Wife of the late David Kock -brother of Charles Koch-, in 2019 she, together with her three children, inherited 42% of the shares of Koch Industries. She went from being worth $51 billion in 2019 to $51 billion in 2021. With her late husband, she donated $10 million to Mount Sinai Medical Center and $10 million to Stanford Children's Hospital to study food allergies.

18. Michael Dell The Chairman and CEO of Dell Technologies owns $50.1 billion. In 2016 Dell merged with EMC, a computer storage company, an operation that had an estimated cost of 60 billion, which was completed in 2016. It is considered the largest technology acquisition in history.

19. Stephen Schwarzman The son of a dry goods store owner, he founded the private equity firm Blackstone with fellow billionaire Peter Peterson in 1985. He accumulates $37.4 billion. His company: Blackstone became the world's largest acquisition firm, with $684 billion in assets.

20. Len Blavatnik With $36.7 billion to his credit, Len Blavatnik is the 20th richest American. He was born in the Ukraine and raised north of Moscow, however, he later immigrated to the United States in 1978 to attend school; studied computer science at Columbia University. He made a fortune selling his stake in Russian oil company TNK-BP for $7 billion in 2013. After buying Warner Music in 2011 for $3.3 billion, he took the company public in June 2020, quadrupling the value.