What moved it
Measured on 18 March 2020, in the middle of the Covid market crash.
That year’s milestones
- $100B, August 2020. Passes $100 billion for the first time. Business Insider, August 2020, reporting Bloomberg
Against today
Our checkpoint at the close on 15 October 2026 was $924.3 billion, which is 38 times his March 2020 figure. Against the $22 million he took from selling Zip2 in 1999, the 2020 figure was 1,118 times as much.
Where the figure comes from
His entry on the Forbes World’s Billionaires list, published each March and measured a few weeks before: Forbes, 6 April 2021 . Every year is on History.