Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is the richest person in the world, with a net worth of $1.05 trillion. After Musk is Larry Page, co-founder of Alphabet (Google). Other billionaires with some of ...

When SpaceX went public yesterday, Elon Musk became the first trillionaire ever (in Australian dollars). But the IPO also allowed Musk to pass another milestone: the richest man in history. Adjusted ...

Mansa Musa was the ruler of the Mali Empire in the early 14th century—and he was no backwater baron. Thanks to salt, gold, and copper, he had untold, incalculable, immeasurable wealth. Some historians ...

Only two of the world’s ten wealthiest people got richer over the past month amid a broad sell-off of tech stocks. One of them is the world’s first trillionaire.