Elon Reeve Musk

$435B

Jeffrey P Bezos

$255B

Lawrence E Page

$246B

Sergey Brin

$230B

Mark E Zuckerberg

$213B

William Henry Gates, Iii

$118B

Thomas Pechy Peterffy

$75.9B

Yiming Zhang

$59.6B

Yuqun Zeng

$58.8B

Kenneth C Griffin

$48.3B

Masayoshi Son

$39.6B

Jun Lei

$35.8B

Robert J Pera

$32.8B

Henry Samueli

$31.6B

Hasso Plattner

$27.7B

Chuanfu Wang

$23.4B

Jan Boris Koum

$20.4B

James Dyson

$17.1B

Piaoyang Sun

$14.2B

Michael Cannon-Brookes

$13.8B

David R Cheriton

$12.6B

Patrick Soon-Shiong

$11.8B

Mark Cuban

$9.10B

Georg Schaeffler

$8.29B

Laurence Graff

$7.71B

Brian Lange Acton

$6.33B

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

$277B

Steven A Ballmer

$175B

Jensen Huang

$162B

Michael R Bloomberg

$96.3B

Shanshan Zhong

$78.9B

Huateng Ma

$69.3B

Giovanni Ferrero

$55.2B

Ka-Shing Li

$36.4B

Dilip Shanghvi

$26.5B

Zhidong Zhang

$25.5B

Peter Thiel

$25.4B

John R Menard

$23.8B

Ray Dalio

$19.3B

Jay Chaudhry

$17.5B

James Howard Goodnight

$15.5B

Ralph Lauren

$15.5B

Andreas Struengmann

$15.1B

Thomas Struengmann

$15.1B

Cyrus Soli Poonawalla

$14.9B

Pierre M Omidyar

$14.2B

Taiming Gou

$12.8B

Dustin Moskovitz

$11.8B

Steven Spielberg

$11.1B

Shilin Huang

$10.9B

Brian Joseph Chesky

$10.6B

George B Kaiser

$10.4B

Nathan Blecharczyk

$10.3B

Marc Benioff

$10.2B

Scott Farquhar

$9.99B

Joseph Nicholas Gebbia

$9.4B

Giorgio Armani

$9.16B

John J Ricketts

$8.62B

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

$8.20B

Brian D Armstrong

$11.0B

John Sall

$7.76B

Reid Hoffman

$2.5B

The net worth information is based on publicly available information from Bloomberg, Forbes and other sources as of November 18, 2025.

Billionaire Inventor Rank: 1

Total net worth: $435B, YTD change: +$2.14B

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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