Top 10 Richest Persons in USA 2023

As of 30 January 2023, there will be 2,755 billionaires worldwide with an estimated total net worth of $13.1 trillion. When we look at Forbes’s new list of the world’s wealthiest persons in 2023, Americans sitting in the top positions, seven of the ten richest men in America have in the inventory of the ten most affluent globally. The wealthiest people in America have a surprising amount of factors in common. They mostly work in Tech and have made their fortunes by starting their own companies and maintaining ownership.

 Everyone has a dream of gaining wealth. Unless you were born into a wealthy family, Building wealth could be very hard. To achieve your goals, you may have to choose a difficult path with many hardships and struggles. It helps you to pursue your dream.

Many of today’s billionaires have had a very struggling past. Most successful people have come from humble beginnings, and they, too, struggled to reach massive success. Here, you will get some inspiration to start your own business. If you want to learn How they become a billionaire, the ten people are currently the wealthiest in the USA.

Sl.No.	Name	Net Worth	Residence
1	Jeff Bezos	$201 B	SEATTLE
2	Elon Musk	$190.5 B	AUSTIN, TEXAS
3	Mark Zuckerberg	$134.5 B	PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA
4	Bill Gates	$134 B	MEDINA, WASHINGTON
5	Larry Page	$123 B	PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA
6	Sergey Brin	$118.5 B	LOS ALTOS, CALIFORNIA
7	Larry Ellison	$117.3 B	LANAI, HAWAII
8	Warren Buffett	$102 B	OMAHA
9	Steve Ballmer	$96.5 B	HUNTS POINT, WASHINGTON
10	Rubens Bloomberg	$96.5 B	HUNTS POINT, NEW YORK

Jeff Bezos

“A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well”.-Jeff Bezos-

Jeffrey Preston Bezos is an American entrepreneur, media proprietor, investor, and computer engineer born on January 12, 1964. He was the founder of Amazon in 1994 out of his garage in Seattle. Amazon is the world’s number one company that sells electronics, household goods and other products. Initially, he had an idea of an online bookstore, but his former boss, David E. Shaw, wasn’t interested. He stepped down as CEO to become executive chairman on July 5, 2021.

According to both Forbes and Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index, he is either the wealthiest or second-wealthiest person globally, with a net worth of almost $200.1 billion as of September 2021. Bezos was named the “richest man in modern history” after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018. Bezos owns the Washington Post and Blue Origin, an aerospace company developing rockets for commercial use.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Amazon revenues grew 38% to $386 billion as people stayed home and made online purchases.

In April 2020, Bezos said he would give $100 million to Feed America, a nonprofit that operates food banks and food pantries across the country.

• NET WORTH: $ 177 BILLION
• COMPANY: AMAZON
• RESIDENCE: SEATTLE

Elon Musk

“People will work better when they know the goal is and why.”Elon Musk-

Elon Reeve Musk is an entrepreneur and business magnate born on 28 of 1971 in Pretoria, South Africa. Musk was the second richest person globally on both Forbes and Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index in September 2021. Unlike many of today’s multi-millionaires, Elon Musk wasn’t born with a silver spoon. His mom was a dietician, and his father was an electromechanical engineer. In his childhood, he faced a lot of adversities. But he proved he could rise above it and became one of the world’s wealthiest and most exciting entrepreneurs. 

In 2002, Musk founded SpaceX, an aerospace manufacturer and interstellar travel company; he made several high-profile contracts with NASA and the US Air Force. In 2004, he joined electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors, Inc. (now Tesla, Inc.) and seized management control as CEO and product architect.

In 2006, he helped create SolarCity, a solar energy services company later acquired by Tesla and became Tesla Energy. Currently, this company produces two rechargeable solar batteries. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI, a nonprofit research company that upgraded artificial intelligence. In 2016, he co-founded Neuralink, a neurotechnology company focused on developing brain-computer interfaces, and founded The Boring Company, a tunnel construction company.

• NET WORTH: $151 BILLION
• COMPANY: TESLA, SPACEX
• RESIDENCE: AUSTIN, TEXAS

Mark Zuckerberg

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk. … In a world that is changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” -Mark Zuckerberg-

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is an American media magnate, internet entrepreneur, and philanthropist born on May 14, 1984. Mark Zuckerberg first developed Facebook alongside fellow students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes in 2004. As Facebook began to be used at other universities, Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to focus entirely on his flourishing business. Facebook is the world’s largest social networking service, allowing users to create a personal profile to connect with their friends and family.

Now he serves as company chairman, chief executive officer, and controlling shareholder. Facebook has more than 2.8 billion monthly active users today. Facebook is also host to several other brands, including photo-sharing app Instagram, which it acquired in 2012, WhatsApp and virtual-reality–headset producer Oculus, Portal, and Novi; its digital wallet for the Diem payment system etc. Since 2008, Time magazine has named Zuckerberg among the 100 most influential people in the world.

• NET WORTH: $97 BILLION
• COMPANY: FACEBOOK
• RESIDENCE: PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA

Bill Gates

“If you are born poor, it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor, it is your mistake.”

William Henry Gates is an American business magnate, software developer, investor, author, and philanthropist born on October 28, 1955. Gates was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. In 1975, he and his childhood friend Allen founded Microsoft in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

It became the world’s largest personal computer software company. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), president and chief software architect. He was the largest individual shareholder in the world until May 2014. He is regarded as one of the well-known entrepreneurs of the microcomputer revolution of the 1970s and 1980s.

 In June 2008, Gates shifted to a part-time role at Microsoft and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It is the charitable foundation established in 2000 by him and his wife, Melinda Gates. In March 2020, Gates left his board position at Microsoft to focus on his philanthropic ventures, including climate change, global health and development, and education. Through the foundation, he led an early 21st-century vaccination campaign that significantly contributed to eradicating the wild poliovirus in Africa.

Since 1987, Gates has been included in the Forbes list of the world’s wealthiest people. As of September 2021, Gates had an estimated net worth of US$129 billion, making him the fourth-richest person in the world. 

• NET WORTH: $124 BILLION
• SOURCE OF WEALTH: MICROSOFT
• RESIDENCE: MEDINA, WASHINGTON

Larry Page

“Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting.” Larry Page

Larry Page is an internet entrepreneur and computer scientist who was born on March 26 1973. Larry Page’s parents were both computer specialists. Following in their path, he studied computer engineering at Stanford University. Who launched the search engine Google tied up with his school buddy Sergey Brin in 1998.

 Page and Brin later took charge of Google’s new parent company, Alphabet, until stepping down from their everyday roles in late 2019. He has served as a member of Google’s board of directors since its inception in September 1998 and as Google’s Chief Executive Officer from April 2011 to October 2015. Larry Page is the Chief Executive Officer of Alphabet and has served on Alphabet’s board of directors since October 2015.

Google has since become the world’s most popular search engine, receiving an average of 5.9 billion searches per day in 2013. By 1999, Google was processing around 500,000 queries every day and became one of the fastest-growing tech companies.

• NET WORTH: $91.5 BILLION
• SOURCE OF WEALTH: GOOGLE
• RESIDENCE: PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin

“Solving big problems are easier than solving little problems.” Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin

Sergey Mikhaylovich Brin was born on August 21, 1973, is an American business magnate, computer scientist, and Internet entrepreneur. Together with Larry Page, he co-founded Google, the most unique and innovative work in the world. Their stated mission was “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” In 2000, they began selling text-based advertisements associated with search keywords.

 Brin was the president of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc., until stepping down from the role on December 3, 2019. Brin is a co-founder of Alphabet, the holding company that owns Google, the world’s largest search engine operator.

He and Page remain at Alphabet as co-founders, controlling shareholders, board members, and employees. As of September 2021, Brin is the 6th-richest person globally, with an estimated net worth of $118.5 billion. 

• NET WORTH: $89 BILLION
• SOURCE OF WEALTH: GOOGLE
• RESIDENCE: LOS ALTOS, CALIFORNIA

Larry Ellison

“Life is a journey. It is a journey about discovering limits.” Larry Ellison

Larry Ellison was born on August 17, 1944, in New York. He is an American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist who is a co-founder, executive chairman, and chief technology officer of information software giant Oracle Corporation.

According to the Forbes index, Ellison is now the 7th-wealthiest person in the United States, with a fortune of $117.3 billion.

Ellison never finished college, but he founded his own company, Oracle, with $1,200 at age 33. The company that would become Oracle now has some 135,000 employees across the globe. Ellison stepped down from his position as CEO of Oracle in 2014.

He is the wealthiest person and a generous philanthropist through partnerships with wildlife conservation groups and the Lawrence Ellison Foundation. He’s also a member of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett’s Giving Pledge, committing to give away at least half of his fortune.

• NET WORTH: $93 BILLION
• SOURCE OF WEALTH: ORACLE
• RESIDENCE: LANAI, HAWAII

Warren Buffett

“We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.” Warren Buffett

Warren Buffett is one of the world’s wealthiest people, born in Omaha, Nebraska, on August 30, 1930. Buffett is known as a businessman and philanthropist. But he’s probably prominent for being one of the world’s most successful investors.

First Entrepreneurial Venture By 13, Buffett ran his business as a paperboy and sold his horseracing tip sheet. 

He has given half of his vast fortune to charity and plans to unload most of the rest during his lifetime or upon his death. 

• NET WORTH: $96 BILLION
• SOURCE OF WEALTH: BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY
• RESIDENCE: OMAHA

Steve Ballmer

-“Great companies start with great leaders in the way they work.” Steve Ballmer

Ballmer was born in March 1956, and he grew up near Detroit, where his father worked as a manager at Ford Motor Company. 

Steve Ballmer is a former director of Microsoft Corporation. He joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the company’s first business manager. Ballmer retired as Chief Executive Officer on February 4, 2014.

In 1980, he left school to become a business manager for Bill Gates, a friend from Harvard who had dropped out of school and co-founded Microsoft.

Over the next two decades, Ballmer held various posts as Microsoft grew into one of the most influential and profitable companies in American history. Much of its initial success was due to the dominance of its operating systems, MS/DOS and Windows.

In 1998, Ballmer became president of Microsoft, and two years later, he became the company’s CEO after Gates stepped down from that position to become chairman. Under Ballmer’s leadership, Microsoft diversified its focus through new products such as the electronic game console system Xbox, first released in 2001, and the Zune family of portable media players introduced in 2006.

• NET WORTH: $68.7 BILLION
• SOURCE OF WEALTH: MICROSOFT
• RESIDENCE: HUNTS POINT, WASHINGTON

 Michael Rubens Bloomberg

“Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.” Michael Rubens Bloomberg

On February 14, 1942, Michael Rubens Bloomberg was an American businessman, politician, philanthropist, and author. He is the majority owner and co-founder of Bloomberg L.P. He was the Mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013 and was a candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination for president of the United States.

He began his career at the securities brokerage Salomon Brothers before forming his own company in 1981.

That company, Bloomberg L.P., is a financial information, software, and media firm known for its Bloomberg Terminal. In the 1990s, he expanded the company to form Bloomberg News and TV. 

Bloomberg spent the next twenty years as its chairman and CEO. In 2021, Forbes ranked him as the 10th-richest person in the US, with an estimated net worth of $70 billion as of October 15, 2021. Since signing The Giving Pledge, Bloomberg has given away $8.2 billion to philanthropic causes.

Bloomberg is pretty generous with his wealth and is known to donate to social issues like gun control and climate
change. He contributed over $3 billion of his fortune in 2019.

• NET WORTH: $68.7 BILLION
• SOURCE OF WEALTH: BLOOMBERG LP
• RESIDENCE: HUNTS POINT, NEW YORK

Conclusion

Unless you were born into a wealthy family, Building wealth could be very hard. To achieve your goals, you may have to choose a difficult path with many hardships and struggles. It helps you to pursue your dream. Here only mentioned those are the Top 10 Richest Persons in USA 2023 (as of January 2023).