Musk keeps the top position while Zuckerberg exceeds Bezos

Significant changes were taken in the global ranking of the richest people in the world. Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, has overtaken the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos according to the latest data from the Bloomberg Millionaires Index in order to become the secondary person in the world. Tesla boss Elon Musk has firmly maintained his position at the top.

According to the Bloomberg Billiaraires Index, Mark Zuckerberg's fortune of 212 billion US dollars has reached and exceeded Jeff Bezos, whose net assets have dropped to 209 billion US dollars. During the trade on May 5, Zuckerberg's assets rose by $ 846 million, while Bezos had a loss of 2.90 billion US dollars. An important factor for this shift is the increase in the equity value of over 16% last month compared to only one increase in Amazon's shares in the same period. So far, Zuckerberg's assets have increased by US dollars of 4.63 billion.

Meta's strong financial results have also contributed to the growth of the Zuckerberg wealth. In the first quarter, reported on May 1, Meta generated sales of $ 42.31 billion and exceeded the expectations of the analysts of $ 41.39 billion. For the second quarter, the company predicted sales between $ 42.5 billion and $ 45.5 billion.

In the meantime, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, continues to hold the title of the world's richest person with a net asset of 331 billion dollars. On April 23, Musk's net assets increased by US dollars of 7.5 billion. He confirmed that he would shorten the time that was assigned to government matters and instead concentrated more intensively on Tesla operations, which led to an increase in Teslas by 5%.