These billionaires have gotten the richest over the past year: Forbes400
, are worth 8% more on average compared to a year ago. A select group of these billionaires have been even more fortunate: The 15 biggest gainers this year saw their already-massive net worths skyrocket by at least 40%.used closing stock prices from Friday July 24 to calculate the size of the fortunes on the list, our 39th annual ranking of the country’s richest people.
he signed with the electric carmaker in 2018. Tesla stock has been on a tear, rising 520% by the timetook a final measure of net worths on July 24 — helping add $48.1 billion to Musk’s net worth since last year’s list. He was the 23rd wealthiest person in America on the 2019 ranking, worth $19.9 billion; this year he’s up to number 7, worth $68 billion.
Cybersecurity mogul Jay Chaudhry had a huge year as well, with shares of his cloud-based security firm ZScaler rising 90%. Chaudhry grew up in a village in the Himalayas without running water or electricity before immigrating to the U.S. in 1980. He and his family own about 45% of the company, which he took public on the Nasdaq in 2018. His net worth is up 92% this year to $6.9 billion.
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