The top 10 richest people in the world (July 2026)
There’s a new member of the $300 billion club and a second sibling from America’s richest family among the planet’s ten wealthiest people.
Billionaires
Larry Ellison’s net worth plunges $100 billion amid Oracle slide
The Oracle chairman ranked the world’s second-richest person earlier this month.
Airwallex mega raise nearly doubled its valuation in a year
Titans of finance including Baillie Gifford and T. Rowe Price have backed Airwallex in the startup’s US$320 million Series H, which values the Australian-born startup at $16 billion.
Elon Musk is no longer a trillionaire
A slump in SpaceX’s stock price and new restrictions on $116 billion of Musk’s Tesla shares have dropped him from the four-comma-club.
Elon Musk’s net worth drops $350 billion in massive SpaceX selloff—but he’s still a trillionaire
A selloff for Musk’s rocket maker wiped out roughly $900 billion in market value.
Elon Musk-Mark Zuckerberg fight talks were ‘real’, says UFC’s Dana White
The UFC CEO said a proposed fight at Rome’s Colosseum would have cost an estimated $150 million.
Musk’s net worth hits $1.4 trillion—SpaceX passes Amazon as fifth-largest company
Shares of Elon Musk’s rocket maker have soared by more than 30% since their trading debut.
Australian billionaires’ Sigma Healthcare walks away from U.K’s. Boots $10 billion deal
Sigma Healthcare has been seeking to expand in the U.K. and had last month partnered with British pharmacy chain Greenlight Healthcare to rollout Chemist Warehouse-branded stores in London.
‘The future’: What sparked Gina Rinehart’s billion-dollar SpaceX investment
Australia’s richest person joins forces with the world’s richest to leverage local critical mineral assets and strengthen the Australia/US relationship. They will both potentially make billions more in the process.
I’ve interviewed more than 100 entrepreneurs. Here’s the biggest myth about success
Most successful businesses don’t begin with a master plan, argues Bernadette Schwerdt, who has interviewed more than 100 entrepreneurs.