At the start of the new decade, Jeff Bezos once again topped Forbes’ Billionaires list of 2019 with a net worth of $131 billion ($162bn/£125bn today), a figure that had decreased in part due to his divorce settlement with his now ex-wife Mackenzie Scott. But in recent years, the top spot has been increasingly occupied by Elon Musk, who currently boasts a staggering fortune of $263 billion (£203bn).

Tech titans continue to reign supreme in 2024, with seven of the 10 spots on the Forbes real-time billionaires list occupied by the likes of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Ellison. It seems inevitable that one of them will take the crown for richest person of the 2020s, but has a new contender yet to emerge?

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