80 California Billionaires Make Forbes 400 List Of Super Rich

CALIFORNIA — For the first time since the Great Recession, the 400 richest Americans didn’t get wealthier this year, according to the 2022 Forbes 400, which includes 80 billionaires from California.

As a group, the net worth of super-rich Americans was down $500 billion, or 11 percent, to $4 trillion, Forbes said. The Forbes list is based on stock prices from Sept. 2.

In California, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both of Google, are among the top 10 wealthiest people in the country, according to Forbes.

Still, some of the Golden State's super-rich took a financial hit over the last year.

Facebook founder and Meta Platforms co-founder Mark Zuckerberg was knocked out of the top 10, coming in at No. 11, down from No. 3 last year. His real-time net worth Thursday was $51.2 billion, down from $57.7 billion when the list was released.

Forbes said Zuckerberg has lost more than half of his fortune, $76.8 billion, since September 2021. No one on the Forbes 400 lost more money in the past year than Zuckerberg, the financial news outlet said.

“The rich don’t always get richer,” Chase Peterson-Withorn, Forbes’ deputy wealth editor said, noting that like many Americans, the wealthiest 400 people in the country are feeling the stock market slowdown.

“But they’re doing just fine,” he added. As a group, they are $1 trillion richer than they were in 2019 before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Elon Musk, who co-founded six companies, including California's electric carmaker Tesla and rocket producer Space X, topped the real-time list of super-rich Americans for the first time with a real-time net worth Thursday of $263.2 billion. That’s up from $251 billion on Sept. 2.

He unseated Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who had topped the list for four years. Bezos’ real-time net worth is $141.4 billion, down from $151 billion when the list was compiled.

Former president Donald Trump returned to the list after falling out of the ranking in 2021. Forbes lists his real-time net worth at $3.2 billion. Of note, Forbes noted, New York Attorney General Letitia James is suing Trump, three of his children and the Trump Organization for $250 million, claiming they had repeatedly and grossly inflated the value of his properties to obtain loans.

The other eight billionaires in the Top 10 and their real-time wealth Thursday are:

• No. 3, Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation co-founder, $103 billion.
• No. 4, Larry Elison, Oracle founder and CTO, $89.9 billion.
• No. 5, Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway CEO, $95 billion.
• No. 6, Larry Page, Google co-founder and board member, $86.6 billion.
• No. 7, Sergey Brin, Google co-founder and board member, $83.1 billion.
• No. 8, Steve Ballmer, Los Angeles Clippers owner, $78.8 billion.
• No. 9, Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg LP CEO, $76.8 billion.
• No. 10, Jim Walton, Arvest Bank Group Inc. chairman and CEO, $57.9 billion

According to Forbes, California’s 80 wealthiest people are:

• No. 6, Larry Page, Google, $93 billion

• No. 7, Sergey Brin, Google, $89 billion

• No., 11, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, $57.7 billion

• No. 34, Eric Schmidt, Google, $18.4 billion

• No. 37, Robert Pera, Wireless Networking Gear, $17.6 billion

• No. 39, Donald Bren, Real Estate, $17.4 billion

• No. 47, Jan Koum, WhatsApp, $13.6 billion

• No. 48, Jensen Huang, Semiconductors, $12.9 billion

• No. 50, Laurene Powell Jobs & family, Apple, Disney, $12.6 billion

• No. 56, John Doerr, Venture Capital, $11 billion

• No. 60, Charles Schwab, Discount Brokerage, $10.5 billion

• No. 69 Marijke Mars, Candy, Pet Food, $9.3 billion

• No. 73 Eric Smidt, Hardware Stores, $9 billion

• No. 74, Brian Chesky, Airbnb, $8.9 billion

• No. 83, Dustin Moskovitz, Facebook, $8.1 billion

• No. 83, George Roberts, Private Equity, $8.1 billion

• No. 87, Steven Rales, Manufacturing, Investments $7.9 billion

• No. 93, Nathan Blecharczyk, Airbnb, $7.7 billion

• No. 93, David Geffen, Movies, Record Labels, $7.7 billion

The least wealthy billionaires in California are:

• No. 104, Gordon Moore, Intel, $7.5 billion

• No. 112, Don Hankey, Auto Loans, $7.2 billion

• No. 115, Jack Dangermond, Mapping Software, $7 billion

• No. 119 Edythe Broad & family, Homebuilding, Insurance, $6.9 B

• No. 128, Henry Samueli, Semiconductors, $6.7 billion

• No. 138, John A. Sobrato & family, Real Estate, $6.5 billion

• No. 138, John Tu, Computer Hardware, $6.5 billion

• No. 143, Marc Benioff, Business Software, $6.4 billion

• No. 143, Edward Roski, Jr., Real Estate, $6.4 billion

• No. 143, David Sun, Computer Hardware, $6.4 billion

• No. 153 Tom Gores, Private Equity, $6.1 billion

• No. 155, Michael Milken, Investments, $6 B

• No. 158, Antony Ressler, Finance, $5.8 billion

• No. 160, Douglas Leone, Venture Capital, $5.7 billion
• No. 160, Patrick Soon-Shiong, Pharmaceuticals, $5.7 billion

• No. 169, Henry Nicholas, III, Semiconductors, $5.6 billion

• No. 171 Archie Aldis Emmerson & family, Timberland, Lumber Mills, $5.5 billion

• No. 181, Vinod Khosla, Venture Capital, $5.4 billion

• No. 181, George Lucas, Star Wars, $5.4 billion

• No. 184, Rick Caruso, Real Estate, $5.3 billion

• No. 184, Lynda Resnick Agriculture, $5.3 billion

• No. 184, Stewart Resnick, Agriculture, $5.3 billion

• No. 196, Romesh T. Wadhwani, Software, $5.1 billion

• No. 196, Ken Xie, Cybersecurity, $5.1 billion

• No. 227, Dagmar Dolby & family, Dolby Laboratories, $4.6 billion

• No. 227, Gwendolyn Sontheim Meyer, Cargill, $4.6 billion

• No. 234, Jack Dorsey, Twitter, Square, $4.5 billion

• No. 234, Michael Moritz, Venture Capital, $4.5 billion

• No. 241, Neal Blue & family, Defense, $4.4 billion

• No. 241, Jeff Skoll, eBay, $4.4 billion

• No. 244 Scott Cook, Software, $4.3 billion

• No. 244, Behdad Eghbali, Private Equity, $4.3 billion

• No. 244, Jose E. Feliciano, Private Equity, $4.3 billion

• No. 252, Lynsi Snyder, In-N-Out Burger, $4.2 billion

• No. 252, Peter Thiel, Facebook, Investments, $4.2 billion

• No. 261, Rupert Johnson, Jr., Money Management, $4.1 billion

• No. 261, Jay Paul, Real Estate, $4.1 billion

• No., 261, Donald Sterling, Real Estate, $4.1 billion

• No. 271, Travis Kalanick, Uber, $4 billion

• No. 271, Steven Spielberg, Movies, record labels, $4 billion

• No. 285, Eric Yuan & family, Zoom Video Communications, $3.9 billion

• No. 296, Jean (Gigi) Pritzker, Hotels, Investments, $3.8 billion

• No. 303, Anthony Pritzker, Hotels, Investments $3.7 billion

• No. 310, Jim Coulter, Private Equity, $3.6 billion

• No. 310, Peter Gassner, Software, $3.6 billion

• No.317, Jeff T. Green, Digital Advertising, $3.5 billion

• No. 332 Rodney Sacks, Energy Drinks, $3.3 billion

• No. 332, Thomas Siebel, Business Software, $3.3 billion

• No. 343, David Filo, Yahoo, $3.2 billion

• No. 351 Nicolas Berggruen, Real estate/Investments, $3.1 billion

• No. 351, Meg Whitman, eBay, $3.1 billion

• No. 369, Haim Saban, TV network, Investments, $2.9 billion

• No. 369, Michael Xie, Cybersecurity, $2.9 billion

• No., 380, Chris Larsen, Cryptocurrency, $2.8 billion

• No. 380, Sean Parker, Facebook, $2.8 billion

• No. 380, Evan Spiegel, Snapchat, $2.8 billion

• No. 388, Brian Armstrong, Cryptocurrency, $2.7 billion

• No. 388, David Baszucki, Online Games. $2.7 billion

• No. 388, Reed Hastings, Netflix, $2.7 billion

• No. 388, Bobby Murphy, Snapchat, $2.7 billion

• No. 388, Richard Peery, Real Estate $2.7 billion