The Top 10 Richest People In The World (January 2025)
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🗓️ 4 January 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Elon Musk kicks off 2025 as the world’s richest person—and the only billionaire to date worth more than $400 billion.
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| 0:00.0 | Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Saturday, January 4th. |
| 0:05.0 | Today on Forbes, the top 10 richest people in the world, January 2025. |
| 0:12.0 | The top 10 richest people in the world have a lot to smile about. |
| 0:16.0 | Together, the world's 10 richest people are worth $1.9 trillion, up from $1.8 trillion on December 1st. |
| 0:24.5 | Seven of the 10 are richer than they were a month ago. These numbers are according to Forbes |
| 0:29.4 | as of January 1st, 2025 at 12 a.m. Eastern Time. Stock prices fluctuate routinely, so these |
| 0:36.2 | net worths may change on a daily basis. |
| 0:39.0 | Forbes tracks the daily changes on our real-time list of billionaires. |
| 0:43.8 | Elon Musk kicks off the new year not only as the world's richest person, but also the only |
| 0:48.7 | billionaire Forbes has tracked in nearly four decades to be worth more than $400 billion. |
| 0:55.1 | Musk begins the new year worth $421.2 billion per Forbes's estimates, a $91 billion increase |
| 1:03.1 | since December 1st. The big jump in his fortune came after SpaceX agreed to buy back |
| 1:08.5 | insider's shares in a deal valuing the rocket company at $350 |
| 1:13.0 | billion, a deal first reported by Bloomberg. The company had previously been worth $210 billion. |
| 1:20.9 | Musk founded SpaceX in 2002, runs it as the CEO, and owns an estimated 42% stake in the company. |
| 1:28.5 | The new valuation made SpaceX the most valuable private company in the world, |
| 1:32.7 | more than TikTok parent, bite dance, payments firm Stripe, or chat GPT creator OpenAI. |
| 1:39.7 | Musk also runs EV maker Tesla and owns stakes in social media firm X, AI firm XAI, and Tunnel Company, |
| 1:47.0 | the Boring Company. Musk, who started 2024, worth an estimated $251 billion, has gained extra |
| 1:54.8 | media attention since Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election in November. |
| 1:59.4 | Trump named Musk the co-head of a new advisory body, |
| 2:01.6 | the Department of Government Efficiency, or Doge, |
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