The only person whose net value has dropped as much as that of Elon Musk is Bill Gates – and he gives it

A question of months later and Musk, the richest man on the planet, was out of the White House. He left the government’s ministry for efficiency, which he helped to create, to refocus on Tesla because he suffered boycotts and a course in fragile action.

Then came the all-powerful one that falls between Musk and Trump, the latter threatening to draw contracts for private companies from Musk.

Musk’s net value had an equally volatile year. Although he keeps his position as a richest person on the planet, few people get closer to the attractive sum that his fortune lost in 2025.

On the last day of 2024, the net value of Musk amounted to $ 432 billion, which is in addition to its top of $ 486 billion, but far from its hollow. When writing Musk’s net value, $ 357 billion, according to the Bloomberg billionaire index, representing a drop of $ 75 billion.

Conversely, many other people on the rich list of the world have seen their fortune hovering due to a rally based on AI on the markets. Larry Ellison d’Oracle, for example, is up $ 192 billion at the end of last year at $ 303 billion at present. Mark Zuckerberg de Meta increased from $ 207 billion at the end of 2024 to 272 billion dollars at the time of the editorial staff.

Further from the list, the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, aroused a loss of 239 billion dollars at the end of 2024 to 234 billion dollars at the time of writing – a fraction of the reduction observed at the Musk Empire.

Microsoft’s former CEO Steve Ballmer achieved a gain in 2025, and the net value of the co -founder of the Larry Page alphabet is slightly up compared to its late 2024 with a current value of $ 174 billion.

Gates gives it

The only person who is even closer to a net reduction as significant as that of Musk is the co -founder of Microsoft Bill Gates – and he gives it.

The Bloomberg billionaire index shows that Gates’s fortune increased from $ 175 billion to $ 124 billion overnight on July 2, although this is due to a recalculation. The index explained that the figure was lowered “to better reflect the carriers of doors”.

The figure, added Bloomberg, was also updated to reflect the announcements of announcements made earlier this year in which he confirmed that he would give almost all his wealth to his foundation.

Gates said that the donation of its net value – about 100 billion dollars – obtains a warning: the work of the Foundation and its 200 billion dollars (including its current allocation and its projected growth), must be spent over the next 20 years. Then the Gates foundation will close its doors for good.

Even with the astonishing sum, Gates continues to call on other individuals and governments with a knotter to join his work. He said Fortune:: “Our resources are far from sufficient to achieve what everyone should want the world to do.”

Why did Musk’s richness have such a success?

The Tesla action (from which Musk derives the vast majority of its net value) has dropped by more than 18% of the year to date.

His problems came from many sides. Analysts continued to question the fundamental principles of the company with sales in Europe and China, despite the reductions in its electric vehicles.

Its results of the T2 shared last month, for example, revealed that automobile income had dropped by 16% compared to the same quarter a year ago. In addition, an increase in energy storage, services and other companies has failed to make up for the deficit, so that overall revenues fall by low -digit percentages. The opposite winds have brought in net profits from 17% to $ 1.17 billion, about two -thirds of what Tesla marked in quarter in 2022.

Tesla was also at the center of political demonstrations against Musk’s relationship with Trump. Tesla cars, exhibition halls and charging points have been damaged beyond not only in the United States but also through Europe. Molotov cocktails are launched on vehicles in Las Vegas, shots fired in an exhibition hall in Portland, Oregon, and charging points set fire to Boston.

In a demonstration of support, President Trump said he bought a Tesla for his own collection and parked a number of vehicles on the lawn of the White House.

Musk representatives did not immediately respond to Fortune’S Request for comments.