The 10 richest personalities in the tech world have lost some $578 billion in one year. This incredible sum represents more than the GDP of Belgium or Singapore. We reveal the TOP 10 of those who have lost the most this year.
It is no surprise that we find at the top of our ranking the current CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and Twitter. With losses estimated at $132 billion, Elon Musk is the personality having lost the most money this year. Its losses represent a sum greater than the GDP (gross domestic product, ie the wealth of a country) of Serbia or Croatia. At the same time, he lost the title of the richest man on the planet when he was overtaken by French billionaire Bernard Arnault, owner of LVMH.
Right behind the new owner of Tesla is the founder and CEO of Amazon. Jeff Bezos lost, in 2022 more than $85 billion or the equivalent of Bolivia’s GDP. An equally impressive deadweight loss partly explained by the difficulties encountered by certain technology companies abandoned by customers due to inflation. Changpeng Zhaoco-founder of cryptocurrency Binance also lost a whopping $100 this year. $83.3 billion. A sum almost identical to that lost by Mark Zuckerberg. The hitherto unsuccessful bet of the metaverse imagined by Zuckerberg has indeed ended in a heavy commercial failure having caused its leader to lose nearly $80 billion. Former sixth in the ranking of the richest people in the world, the creator of Facebook is now relegated to 25th place.
The losses of Steve Ballmer, Zeng Yuqun, Bill Gates, MacKenzie Scott, Sergey Brin and Larry Page do not exceed the symbolic mark of 50 billion dollars
At the bottom of our ranking we find various entrepreneurs who are “luckier” than the others. They each lost less than $50 billion. Steve Ballmerthe former CEO of Microsoft, for example, lost “only” $19.4 billion. A pittance for the current owner of an NBA basketball club. The losses of Bill Gatesco-founder of Microsoft are valued at $28.6 billion. The two co-founders of Google Sergey Brin and Larry Page have both lost nearly $45 billion this year.
Source : businessinsider.com
