The Top 10 Richest People In The World (September 2024)
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🗓️ 4 September 2024
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Elon Musk remains at No. 1. But the ups and downs of tech stocks shuffled the ranks of others among the world’s top 10 richest, with Larry Ellison falling a notch while Bill Gates overtook the Google cofounders.
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| 0:00.0 | Here is your Forbes Daily Briefing for Wednesday, September 4th. |
| 0:05.0 | Today on Forbes, the top 10 richest people in the world, September 2024. |
| 0:12.0 | For the second month in a row, gyrating tech stocks rearranged the ranking of more |
| 0:17.0 | than half of the world's ten richest people. |
| 0:20.1 | As a result, Meta-Cseeo Mark Zuckerberg swapped places with Larry Ellison |
| 0:25.1 | to become the world's fourth richest person again. |
| 0:28.0 | Warren Buffett moved ahead of Google co-founder Larry Page |
| 0:31.5 | and Bill Gates overtook both of the Google co-founders |
| 0:34.1 | to become the world's seventh richest person up two spots in a month. |
| 0:38.3 | Elon Musk maintained his spot as the world's richest person, worth an estimated $243.7 billion, |
| 0:47.0 | $3 billion more than a month ago, following an increase in the value of rocket firm SpaceX. |
| 0:53.0 | Lately, Musk has been a vocal critic of a Brazilian Supreme Court judge |
| 0:57.5 | over a ruling that froze bank accounts for a star-length satellite internet business. Regulators in Brazil moved to shutdown X, |
| 1:05.3 | formerly known as Twitter, on August 30th to comply with the Brazilian judges order. |
| 1:11.5 | The biggest gainer in the past month was Mark Zuckerberg. |
| 1:15.0 | His fortune rose by nearly $14 billion to an estimated $180.5 billion |
| 1:21.0 | as Meta Platform's shares climbed 9% during August. |
| 1:25.0 | That gain moved him ahead of Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison |
| 1:29.0 | to rank the Meta CEO as number four richest in the world. |
| 1:32.0 | He's traded places with Ellison several times |
| 1:34.9 | throughout the year so far. The biggest loser of this elite cohort in the past |
| 1:40.0 | month was Amazon Chairman Jeff Bezos. His fortune fell by 7.8 billion dollars to |
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