{"id":944730,"date":"2025-07-09T07:41:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944730"},"modified":"2025-07-09T07:59:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T02:29:43","slug":"bill-gates-no-longer-among-worlds-top-10-billionaires-elon-musk-still-on-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/09\/bill-gates-no-longer-among-worlds-top-10-billionaires-elon-musk-still-on-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates no longer among world\u2019s top 10 billionaires; Elon Musk still on top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates is no longer one of the world&#8217;s top 10 richest people, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His net worth has fallen even below former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, to $124 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Gates\u2019 current wealth marks a drop of nearly 30% from over $175 billion, placing him in 12th position, while Ballmer holds 5th position.<\/p>\n<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk retains his position as the world\u2019s richest person, with a net worth of $346 billion, according to the index.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates is no longer one of the world&#8217;s top 10 richest people, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. His net worth has fallen even below former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, to $124 billion. Gates\u2019 current wealth marks a drop of nearly 30% from over $175 billion, placing him in 12th position, while Ballmer holds 5th position. Tesla CEO Elon Musk retains his position as the world\u2019s richest person, with a net worth of $346 billion, according to the index.<\/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-944730","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\/944730","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=944730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}