{"id":45842,"date":"2026-04-27T08:40:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/45842\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:40:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:40:14","slug":"worlds-4-richest-people-are-already-100b-wealthier-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/45842\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s 4 Richest People Are Already $100B Wealthier in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world’s four richest people<\/a> are off to a roaring start in 2026. In just over three weeks, they’ve together added $100 billion to their fortunes \u2014 more than Nike, Robinhood, or UPS are worth.<\/p>\n

Musk has captured the lion’s share. The Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s net worth<\/a> has soared by $70 billion since the start of January, hitting $690 billion at Thursday’s close, the Bloomberg Billionaires Index shows.<\/p>\n

If Musk’s year-to-date wealth gain was someone’s entire net worth, they would rank among the world’s 25 richest people, just behind industrialist Charles Koch<\/a> on $71 billion.<\/p>\n

Musk’s fortune has ballooned this year primarily because of his stake in xAI<\/a>; the maker of AI chatbot Grok was valued at $250 billion earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Tesla stock also rallied 4% on Thursday, leaving it roughly flat year to date, following positive updates<\/a> about the EV maker’s robotaxis and Optimus robots. That fueled a $13 billion increase in Musk’s wealth on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The second- and third-richest people on the planet, Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin<\/a>, have added around $13 billion to their respective fortunes this year.<\/p>\n

That’s because fresh buzz<\/a> around Alphabet’s Gemini AI has boosted shares of Google’s parent company by about 6% this year, lifting Page and Brin to $283 billion and $263 billion each.<\/p>\n

Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos<\/a>, rounds out the quartet of wealth winners. His fortune has grown by about $3 billion this year, reaching $257 billion at Thursday’s close.<\/p>\n

Other tech titans have seen their net worths shrink this year as the buzz around their companies has cooled.<\/p>\n

A nearly 9% drop in Oracle’s stock price this month has knocked $16 billion off cofounder and tech chief Larry Ellison<\/a>‘s net worth, cutting it to $231 billion.<\/p>\n

Similarly, an almost 7% slide in Microsoft stock has reduced former CEO Steve Ballmer’s fortune by $11 billion to $158 billion.<\/p>\n

New year, same story?<\/p>\n

Musk, Page, and Brin have started 2026 with plenty of momentum after a stellar 12 months<\/a> for mega-billionaires.<\/p>\n

The world’s 10 richest people together gained $579 billion<\/a> last year, propelling their combined wealth past $2.5 trillion \u2014 roughly what Amazon is worth.<\/p>\n

Musk led the pack with an $187 billion increase in net worth, thanks to Tesla stock gaining 11% and SpaceX’s valuation leaping<\/a> from $350 billion to $800 billion over the course of the year.<\/p>\n

Page and Brin<\/a> were the next-biggest gainers last year, notching wealth increases of $101 billion and $92 billion each as Alphabet shares rose 65%. Bezos gained a more modest $15 billion.<\/p>\n

The four men could be in for another winning year if this month’s trend holds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world’s four richest people are off to a roaring start in 2026. In just over three weeks,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[8296,28934,816,8245,203,2105,15328,1814,614,5196,3108,1340,6281,1815,1022,512],"class_list":{"0":"post-45842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-larry-page","8":"tag-fortune","9":"tag-increase","10":"tag-larry-page","11":"tag-month","12":"tag-musk","13":"tag-net-worth","14":"tag-page","15":"tag-rich-people","16":"tag-sergey-brin","17":"tag-share","18":"tag-spacex-ceo","19":"tag-tesla","20":"tag-thursday","21":"tag-wealth","22":"tag-world","23":"tag-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116475777751864892","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}