Elon Musk is still one of the world’s richest people, despite plunking down $44 billion in 2022 to buy Twitter. But who were the top locals to grace Forbes’s billionaires list and secure their place in the three-comma club?
Note: These numbers were pulled from Forbes’s Real-Time Billionaires List in January 2023. And billions come and go, apparently.
Jeff Bezos
$107.3 billion
We all know the origin story: From a Bellevue garage, Bezos launched the e-commerce giant to rule them all. Today he’s expanded beyond Amazon into space travel, biotech, venture capital, and (gulp) media.
Bill Gates
$106 billion
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