{"id":1041013,"date":"2026-10-06T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041013"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:04:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T02:34:41","slug":"the-only-billionaires-making-money-this-year-are-in-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/06\/the-only-billionaires-making-money-this-year-are-in-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"The only billionaires making money this year are in tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If 2026 feels like a banner year for the world\u2019s tech billionaires, the numbers bear it out. <\/p>\n<p>The roughly 100 technology fortunes among the world\u2019s 500 richest people gained a combined $845 billion through Sept. 30, the most ever for the first nine months of a year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. <\/p>\n<p>Fueling that surge were the same forces driving global markets: the artificial intelligence boom and soaring technology stocks, particularly in the US. Tech billionaires are now worth a combined $4.6 trillion, accounting for 36% of the index\u2019s wealth despite making up only about a fifth of its members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If 2026 feels like a banner year for the world\u2019s tech billionaires, the numbers bear it out. The roughly 100 technology fortunes among the world\u2019s 500 richest people gained a combined $845 billion through Sept. 30, the most ever for the first nine months of a year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Fueling that surge were the same forces driving global markets: the artificial intelligence boom and soaring technology stocks, particularly in the US. Tech billionaires are now worth a combined $4.6 trillion, accounting for 36% of the index\u2019s wealth despite making up only about a fifth of its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041047,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041013\/revisions\/1041047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}