What moved it
First place on the annual list for the first time.
That year’s milestones
- −$200B, December 2022. The first person in history to lose $200 billion from his fortune, in the year he bought Twitter. Bloomberg, 30 December 2022
Against today
Our checkpoint at the close on 15 October 2026 was $924.3 billion, which is 4.2 times his March 2022 figure. Against the $22 million he took from selling Zip2 in 1999, the 2022 figure was 9,955 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: The World's Billionaires, Wikipedia, citing Forbes . Every year is on History.