Indian tycoon Gautam Adani has surpassed Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to become the world’s fourth richest person, with a net worth of $115.5 billion, according to Forbes’ list of real-time billionaires.
Adani’s ranking climbed after Gates announced last week that he would donate $20 billion to his philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to address “huge global setbacks.”
Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX, has the highest net worth with $253 billion, followed by Louis Vuitton’s Bernard Arnault with $157.8 billion, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos with $150.3 billion.
Gates, whose current net worth is $105.3 billion, pledged to “return” his resources to improve lives, citing the COVID-19 pandemic, gender equality, and the Russia–Ukraine war as some of the major issues facing the world….