Elon Musk | $79 BILLION

Elon Musk is credited to be the self-made billionaire who recently stepped down as Tesla’s chairman yet still gets to keep his billions. His current net worth is $150 billion, and he ranks as the second richest person on the planet, according to Forbes. He earned his first million when he and his brother sold their brainchild, Zip2, a web software company. The sale already happened when he founded his next business, an online banking company, X.com. Later, the company merged with its competition Confinity and became PayPal Inc, which was sold to eBay after a few years, making Musk richer.

His next money-making company is the rocket maker SpaceX, for which he owns 54% of the shares and will sure make Musk even wealthier. As of 2020, his net worth rose to $150 billion, thanks to Tesla’s surging shares and increasing sales of electric vehicles in the whole world.