A question of months later and Muschus, the richest man on the planet, was out of the White House. He left the government’s efficiency, which he made to create Tesla when creating boycotting and a shaky share price.
Then came the Almighty case between Musk and Trump, and the latter threatened to draw contracts for Musk’s private business.
Musk’s net assets had a similar volatile year. While he maintains his position as the richest person on the planet, only a few people come near the eyes who lost his assets in 2025.
On the last day of 2024, Musk’s net assets were $ 432 billion far from his all-time high of $ 486 billion, but far from his deep. At the time of the writing of Musk’s net assets, US $ 357 billion is in accordance with the Bloomberg billionaires indexA decrease of $ 75 billion.
Conversely, many other people on the rich list of the world saw in the markets due to an AI-controlled rally. Larry Ellison von Oracle, for example, rose from $ 192 billion to currently $ 303 billion at the end of last year. Mark Zuckerberg from Meta rose to 272 billion US dollars at the time of the letter of 207 billion US dollars.
Further down on the list, Amazon At the time of writing, founder Jeff Bezos achieved a loss of 239 billion US dollars at 234 billion US dollars -a fraction of the reduction that Musks has seen rich.
The former CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, made a profit in 2025, and alphabet The co-founder Larry Page is slightly after its end of 2024 with a current value of $ 174 billion.
Gates gives away
The only person who comes close to a significant reduction in net assets as Musk is the co-founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates and he gives away.
The BLOOMBERG’s Milliardaires Index shows that Gates’ assets have dropped from $ 175 billion to $ 124 billion on July 2, even though this has been due to a recalculation. The index explained the number Reduced “better gates” outside of the non -profit giving “better reflect”. “”
The illustration, added Bloomberg, was also updated to reflect this Termined gates made at the beginning of this year in which he confirmed that he would give his foundation all his assets practically.
Gates said the donation of his net assets – an incredible 100 billion US dollar – was with a restriction: the work of the foundation, and 200 billion US dollars (including the current foundation and the projected growth) will have to be spent in the next 20 years. Then the Gates Foundation becomes Finally close its doors.
Despite the amazing sum, Gates continues to ask other individuals and governments with high net assets to join his work. He said Assets: “Our resources are far from enough to achieve what the world should do.”
Why did Musk Wealth suffer such a hit?
Tesla share (from which Musk derives the vast majority of his net assets) has decreased by more than 18% in the year.
His problems came from many sides. Have analysts further questioned the basics of the business with sales in Europe and China weaker despite discounts on its EVs.
It is Q2 The results divided last month, for example, showed 16% by 16% compared to the previous year. In addition, an increase in energy storage, services and other companies could not meet the defect, so that the total turnover due to percentage low-double percentages decreased. The headwind sent the net profit, which sang 17% to $ 1.17 billion, which has dropped about two thirds of what Tesla netted in 2022 per quarter.
Tesla was also the focus of Political protests against Musk’s relationship with Trump. Tesla cars, exhibition rooms and charging points were damaged not only in the USA, but also throughout Europe. Molotov cocktails be thrown on vehicles in Las Vegas, Shots fired on one Showroom in Portland, OregonAnd on fire loading points in Boston, Massachusetts.
In support for the support, President Trump said that he bought a Tesla for his own collection and parked a number of vehicles on the lawn of the White House.
Representatives of Musk did not react immediately Fortune’s Request for comment.
