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Matt Durot, Forbes Staff

Hired-hand billionaires 2025: These 48 executives got rich working for others

You don’t have to start a company or grow up wealthy to become a billionaire.

  • By Matt Durot
  • Forbes Staff

The $100 billion club: These 15 people have 12-figure fortunes

From Elon Musk to Alice Walton, the number of people worth a dozen digits keeps growing.

  • By Matt Durot
  • Forbes Staff
Tesla has been the single biggest part of his ever expanding fortune for years. No more, as Tesla’s stock comes crashing down. Samuel Corum/Stringer/Getty Images

Tesla is no longer Elon Musk’s most valuable asset

The EV maker has been the single biggest part of his ever expanding fortune for years. No more, as Tesla’s stock comes crashing down.

  • By Matt Durot
  • Forbes Staff

Rob Walton just joined the $100 billion club for the first time

The eldest son of Walmart founder Sam Walton is the first member of America’s richest family to boast a 12-figure fortune.

  • By Matt Durot
  • Forbes Staff

Asides

Alice Walton just became the world’s wealthiest woman

The only daughter of Walmart founder Sam Walton overtook French heiress Francoise Bettencourt Meyers on Wednesday morning.

  • By Matt Durot
  • Forbes Staff

Elon Musk is the world’s richest person again thanks to his new AI startup

Move over Bernard Arnault. There’s a new wealthiest person on the planet.

  • By Matt Durot
  • Forbes Staff

Decabillionaire Dynasties: These are the 10 richest families in America

Forbes introduces the first ever ranking of decabillionaire families, who are worth $10 billion or more. Some famous families make the cut; others like the Kennedys and Gettys fall short.

  • By Matt Durot
  • Forbes Staff

Elon Musk no longer world’s richest person after judge voids $51 billion pay package

A decision by a Delaware judge late Tuesday afternoon has multibillion-dollar implications regarding Musk’s fortune.

  • By Matt Durot
  • Forbes Staff

These billionaires sold the most stock so far in 2023

Twenty-one of the world’s richest people, including Larry Ellison and Rob Walton, have unloaded shares worth more than $9 billion combined in the first half of this year.

  • By Matt Durot
  • Forbes Staff

Tesla’s market cap dips, widening gap between Musk and world’s No.1 billionaire

On Tuesday, the electric vehicle maker’s equity valuation dipped below US$500 billion in mid-day trading for the first time since November 2020.

  • By Matt Durot
  • Forbes Staff
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