The decline in the US stock markets, where nearly $2 trillion evaporated yesterday, led to major erosions in the fortunes of the rich dollar billionaires. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg were among the names that suffered the most losses.
While the ‘Magnificent 7’ formed by Amazon, Apple, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla fell by more than $1 trillion, losses were also reflected in the owners of these companies.
Bezos has the biggest loss…
According to the news of Forbes from the US media; The name that saw the biggest loss was Amazon founder and owner Jeff Bezos. Bezos’ net asset value fell by 5% and melted $8 billion. Bezos’ total wealth is currently around $179 billion.
For Jensen Huang, CEO of chipmaker Nvidia, the ‘most rising star’ company of this year, the loss was $7.9 billion. Huang’s fortune dropped to $87 billion.
The loss in the richest Musk is $6 billion
Elon Musk, known as the richest person in the world and the owner of Tesla, Space X and X, also had his share of declines. Musk’s fortune fell to $221 billion with a $6 billion meltdown.
One-day losses of other dollar billionaire business people are as follows:
- Mark Zuckerberg: $7bn
- Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison: $6bn
- Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page: $4bn each
- Microsoft founder Bill Gates: $4bn
- Investor Warren Buffet: $4bn
- Louis Vuitton founder Bernard Arnault (Europe’s richest man): $4bn
- Indian businessman Mukesh Ambani (Asia’s richest man): $3bn