At the start of the new decade, Jeff Bezos once again topped Forbes’ Billionaires list of 2019 with a net worth of $131 billion ($167bn today), a figure that had decreased in part due to his divorce settlement with his now ex-wife Mackenzie Scott. But in recent years, the top spot has been increasingly occupied by Elon Musk.

Tech titans continue to reign supreme in 2026, with seven of the 10 spots on the Forbes real-time billionaires list occupied by the likes of Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison. Meanwhile, Musk has become the world's first dollar trillionaire. It seems inevitable that one of them will take the crown for richest person of the 2020s, but could a new contender emerge in the latter half of the decade?

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