Best Of 2024: This Tech Entrepreneur Is The Richest Black Person In America

Elon Musk kicks off 2025 as the world’s richest person—and the only billionaire to date worth more than $400 billion. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A plummeting stock price, criminal charges or simply strategic blunders can cause an otherwise exemplary career to tumble. Our annual list of career crashes illustrates how even the mightiest can fall. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Ramon Ang’s food and beverage conglomerate San Miguel has loaded up on debt and is remaking itself into an infrastructure giant. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Françoise Bettencourt Meyers, the richest woman in the world for the last four years, now has a 12-figure fortune after L’Oréal’s stock reaches record highs. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

More than a dozen Black billionaires live in the U.S., but only these four made the 2024 Forbes 400 list. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.