The year that is coming to a close has been a bloodbath for the tech billionaires, who have burnt a total of over 433 billion dollars. The data was disclosed by the Washington Post.
The Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg he was one of the entrepreneurs who saw his assets decrease the most (by two thirds) to $44.8 billion, burning $80.7 billion. With this decline, the number one of the social network fell from sixth to 25th position in the overall ranking.
Elon Musk lost $132 billion instead due to the collapse of the Tesla stock, but despite this he kept assets of 139 billion dollars.
Jeff Bezosthe founder of Amazon and former CEO of the e-commerce giant, saw his assets drop to 108 billion dollars, while Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google totally lost almost 88 billion dollars (about 44 each) and they now have a nominal wealth of $80 billion each.
Bill Gates instead he reported a decline of 28.7 billion dollars and now his fortune is equal to 109 billion dollars.
Over the course of the year, Elon Musk lost the title of richest man in the world and was ousted by Bernard Arnault.
