Elon Reeve Musk

$368B

Jeffrey P Bezos

$253B

Mark E Zuckerberg

$252B

Lawrence E Page

$173B

Sergey Brin

$162B

William Henry Gates, Iii

$123B

Thomas Pechy Peterffy

$78.2B

Yiming Zhang

$59.6B

Kenneth C Griffin

$48.3B

Jun Lei

$46.8B

Yuqun Zeng

$43.1B

Hasso Plattner

$30.6B

Robert J Pera

$27.4B

Chuanfu Wang

$25.2B

Henry Samueli

$24.4B

Masayoshi Son

$22.6B

Jan Boris Koum

$19.4B

James Dyson

$18.8B

Piaoyang Sun

$14.0B

Michael Cannon-Brookes

$13.8B

David R Cheriton

$11.8B

Patrick Soon-Shiong

$11.7B

Mark Cuban

$8.70B

Laurence Graff

$6.86B

Brian Lange Acton

$6.33B

Georg Schaeffler

$6.18B

Jeffrey Rothschild

$5.6B

Michael Jerry Saylor

$4.6B

George Robert Kurtz

$4.5B

Melanie Joy Perkins

$4.4B

Michael Xie

$4.2B

Jack Dorsey

$4.2B

W Reed Hastings

$4.1B

Thomas M Siebel

$3.9B

Travis Cordell Kalanick

$3.6B

Sean N Parker

$2.8B

Jincheng Liu

$2.6B

Palmer Freeman Luckey

$2.3B

Cameron Knox Adams

$2.2B

Samuel H Altman

$2.0B

Cameron Howard Winklevoss

$1.4B

Tyler Howard Winklevoss

$1.4B

Vinod Khosla

$9.8B

Lawrence J Ellison

$299B

Steven A Ballmer

$176B

Jensen Huang

$154B

Michael R Bloomberg

$96.3B

Shanshan Zhong

$67.2B

Huateng Ma

$61.2B

Giovanni Ferrero

$51.9B

Ka-Shing Li

$36.4B

Dilip Shanghvi

$26.2B

Peter Thiel

$23.8B

John R Menard

$23.8B

Zhidong Zhang

$23.0B

James Howard Goodnight

$18.2B

Jay Chaudhry

$17.1B

Cyrus Soli Poonawalla

$16.1B

Ray Dalio

$16.0B

Thomas Struengmann

$15.7B

Andreas Struengmann

$15.6B

Ralph Lauren

$14.6B

Pierre M Omidyar

$13.5B

Scott Farquhar

$12.6B

Dustin Moskovitz

$11.8B

Taiming Gou

$11.1B

Shilin Huang

$10.9B

Marc Benioff

$10.7B

Steven Spielberg

$10.6B

Brian Joseph Chesky

$10.6B

Nathan Blecharczyk

$10.3B

George B Kaiser

$10.1B

Joseph Nicholas Gebbia

$9.4B

Giorgio Armani

$9.16B

John Sall

$9.12B

John J Ricketts

$8.39B

Judith R Faulkner

$7.8B

Qunfei Zhou

$5.8B

Romesh Wadhwani

$5.1B

Liquan Fu

$3.3B

Benjamin Chestnut

$5.0B

Timothy Dean Sweeney

$5.7B

Kelcy Lee Warren

$8.25B

Brian D Armstrong

$11.0B

Reid Hoffman

$2.5B

The net worth information is based on publicly available information from Bloomberg, Forbes and other sources as of July 29, 2025.

Billionaire Inventor Rank: 1

Total net worth: $368B, YTD change: -$64.1B

Industry: Technology

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Elon Reeve Musk

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Elon Musk, a prolific inventor and visionary, has founded and led several groundbreaking companies. Notably, he co-founded PayPal, revolutionizing online payments, and founded SpaceX, the first private company to successfully launch a rocket into space. Additionally, Musk is at the helm of Tesla, a trailblazer in electric vehicle technology, and has ventured into artificial intelligence with his new company, xAI. His innovative spirit extends to projects like The Boring Company, which aims to solve traffic challenges through underground tunnels.

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Billionaire inventors stand as towering figures in the pantheon of modern innovation, blending astute business acumen with groundbreaking technological advancements. These visionaries have not only mastered the art of turning abstract ideas into tangible realities but have also adeptly navigated the complex pathways of commercialization to build vast fortunes. From Elon Musk’s revolutionary strides in electric vehicles and space travel with Tesla and SpaceX, to Jeff Bezos' transformative work in e-commerce and cloud computing through Amazon and Blue Origin, these individuals redefine industries and push the boundaries of what’s possible. Their work often sparks debates on the ethical implications and societal impacts of rapid technological progress, yet their contributions remain integral to driving forward the engine of global innovation. In the process, they inspire a new generation of entrepreneurs and inventors to dream big and challenge the status quo, further fueling the cycle of invention and discovery.

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