Some new female billionaires on the list are musical artist and fashion mogul Rihanna Melanie Perkins, co-founder of design company Canva and Melinda French Gates, who is now listed separately after her divorce from Bill Gates in 2021. See also: Tom Brady net worth: How Brady made his $475 million fortune Of those women, 101 are “self-made” billionaires, meaning they started a company or established their own fortune, as opposed to inheriting it in some way, as defined by Forbes. The 327 count is down from 328 last year. This figure includes individuals who share their net worth with a spouse, according to Forbes. Of the 2,668 billionaires in the world, just 327 are women. The data and figures were as of March 11, and do not include Musk’s recent net-worth jump from his Twitter equity purchase, which quickly gained some $1 billion in value.
See also: Twitter stock sinks after Elon Musk says he could ‘terminate’ the deal Maybe these guys, and fellow billionaire space enthusiast Elon Musk, ought to tuck their space phalluses away for a couple of decades and focus on some of our more immediate concerns.Musk was helped by an uptick in Tesla’s stock price, which gained about 50% in 2021.
Mostly, though, this has proven an irresistible occasion to vent frustrations about billionaires doing billionaire things instead of focusing their resources on the pandemic, or climate change, or any of the other rolling crises here on Earth. Some have celebrated the engineering and persistence required to fly a bunch of humans into space and bring them back safely, or the wonder of pushing the boundaries of possibility. These two voyages have generated an awful lot of takes. Individuals, if they’re wealthy enough, are no longer beholden to government craft when they want to leave the planet for a little while. Rich people have done this sort of thing before, but Branson and Bezos didn’t just pay for a ticket-they paid for the spaceships.
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