In 2023, the stock market took off, and the wallets of tech pros also swelled. The combined wealth of the 10 richest people in the world increased by $465.4 billion last year—this figure exceeds the entire market capitalization of Walmart ($424.4 billion).

Musk tops the list with $229 billion, earning $92 billion in a year; Zuckerberg saw the most significant relative increase, adding $82.5 billion, nearly reaching $128 billion; Bezos also added $69.9 billion.

The S&P 500 rose 24% for the whole year, and these pros made an average net profit of 46.5 billion each. Even more exaggerated is that the total assets of these 10 people (1.47 trillion) can already rank among the top 6 companies in the world by market capitalization.

Interestingly, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, although ranked outside the top 42, has seen a rapid increase in wealth as a beneficiary of the chip frenzy, placing him among the top gainers. On the other hand, Adani became the only billionaire to suffer significant losses (a decrease of 36.2 billion) due to the impact of a short-selling report, dropping to rank 15.