Top 20 richest people — September 2026 # Person Age* Main company / source Education How they reached their first $1B 1 Elon Musk 55 Tesla, SpaceX University of Pennsylvania ~41 — PayPal/X.com exit plus rising Tesla/SpaceX valuations. His first billionaire status came around 2012. 2 Larry Page 53 Google/Alphabet Michigan; Stanford MS ~30–31 — Google IPO in 2004 transformed his equity into a multibillion-dollar fortune. 3 Michael Dell 61 Dell Technologies University of Texas — dropped out ~35–36 — Dell Computer's rapid growth and IPO made his founder stake worth billions. He started with just $1,000 from his dorm room. 4 Jeff Bezos 62 Amazon Princeton 34–35 — Amazon's explosive stock appreciation in 1998 made him a billionaire; contemporary reporting noted he crossed $1B after only about four years of building Amazon. 5 Sergey Brin 53 Google/Alphabet Maryland; Stanford MS ~31 — Google's 2004 IPO made his founder stake worth several billion dollars. 6 Mark Zuckerberg...
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