Elon Musk – $38.2 Billion

Elon Musk could be the model from rags to riches. He is the epitome of the self-made billionaires, starting from nothing and now having everything. On the Forbes list of the top 400 richest Americans in 2019, he ranked 23rd with $19.9 billion in assets. In the 2020 “Forbes” US 400 richest list, he ranked seventh with assets of 70 billion US dollars. With such huge net worth, what can Elon not buy?

Although he already stepped down as Tesla’s chairman, Elon remained to be on the top. He started to be a millionaire when he sold Zip2, the software company that he built with his brother. He then found the online banking company, X.com, which merged with Confinity that eventually became PayPal, Inc. When he sold this, he once again became a more affluent millionaire. From here, he made investments in Tesla Motors and established the rocket-making company, SpaceX.