Elon Musk 4.04X Richer than Second Place. Gates Never Did It. (opens in new tab)

Forbes Real-Time Billionaires and Bloomberg listed Elon Musk at ~$1.3 / $1.27 trillion, with Larry Page (second) at ~$314 billion → ratio ≈ 4.04X richer. Bill Gates never reached 4X. He dominated the top spot for many years (roughly 13 consecutive years from ~1995–2007 per Forbes). The gap was smaller. In 1999, the ratio over ... Read more