World's Richest People and Families, 1988 - 2026.

 

There are now 2,850 billionaires globally (2024-2025), and 30% of them are from the United States. This video shows the early rise of Japanese, American, European, and Arab billionaires and families and how tech billionaires rose in the modern era.

In the early years, Bill Gates and the Walton family became wealthy through their work in technology and retail. You can feel something about Japan when everything was going well in Japan back then.

In the mid-years, leaders like Carlos Slim and Li Ka-Shing grew their businesses in telecommunications and real estate. In the Modern Era, tech moguls catapulted to the highest, transforming the digital world.

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