Musk is engaged in rocket electric vehicles, Arnault is selling luxury goods, and Zhong is selling mineral water
Musk became the world's richest man again with $259.4 billion, and his fortune has skyrocketed by $108.4 billion this year. According to the current trend, Musk will be the richest man in the world for many years to come.
Just look at his business layout, Tesla's current sales of electric vehicles are far ahead in the world. Tesla's global deliveries in 2023 will be about 1.82 million vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 37%; Of these, approximately 473,000 units were delivered in the fourth quarter.
Tesla is also different from other electric car manufacturers, everyone else is currently in the stage of burning money, and Tesla has begun to make a lot of money. Tesla's profit in 2022 will be as high as $12.5 billion.
In addition to Tesla, Musk is also actively laying out many future technologies, such as Starlink, brain-computer interfaces and rockets. It's really cool that Musk is doing big rockets. Before this, rocket research was based on the country, but who knew that now Musk has really succeeded, and his SpaceX technology is currently the world's leading.
This year, SpaceX successfully launched 96 rockets, and the previous explosion of the SpaceX Starship caused a sensation around the world. The explosion was a failure in the eyes of others, but it proved to be a success in Musk's eyes, because they knew what the problem was, and it was an attempt in the first place.
Musk has what he has achieved now, and he really deserves it. Over the years, he has even sold his house in order to start a business, and he is not like Zuckerberg, he has no big estate, no luxury yacht. Musk's mind is on entrepreneurship.
His ex-girlfriend once complained that Musk took all the money to start a business, and he was reluctant to replace the mattress at home if it was broken. For a long time, in order to start a business, Musk did not have his own house, lived in a friend's house for a long time, he invited his girlfriend to dinner, and had to borrow money from friends.
In fact, Musk is not without making money, he sold his company in his 20s and has earned $25 million, but he always keeps putting his own money into entrepreneurship, and Musk is also a big entrepreneur who is not greedy for enjoyment. When he came to China, he also ate pancakes and steamed buns on the street with the staff, and there was no shelf at all.
Elon Musk, the richest man in the United States, is engaged in rocket and electric vehicles, so what is the richest man in Europe doing? This year's richest man in Europe is still France's Arnault. The owner of the LVMH group owns almost half of the world's luxury brands, and the brands we are familiar with, such as LV, Hennessy, etc., are owned by him.
His personal assets also exceed 100 billion dollars. In recent years, Arnott's wealth has also grown very rapidly, and he once surpassed Musk to become the richest man in the world. However, he still lost to Musk this year.
The richest man in the United States is engaged in high-tech, while the richest man in Europe is engaged in luxury goods. This seems to explain why Europe's economy is not as good as that of the United States. In recent years, in the high-tech field, there are fewer and fewer emerging companies in Europe. For example, in the automotive sector, which used to be the leader in Europe, they are not as good as before. Nowadays, there is no electric car brand in Europe that can be called Tesla.
Most of the luxury brands on the market today are from Europe, and that's because of the European heritage. In fact, Europe can still be so rich today, and it is also because of their centuries of heritage.
So what is China's richest man doing? This year's richest man in China is Zhong Xuxu, the boss of Nongfu Spring. He did a mineral water business. Compared with Musk, Zhong is not high-tech. The mineral water business, which is a fast-moving consumer product, is nothing remarkable.
However, Zhong Xuxu has another company - Wantai Biotechnology. This company is a domestic cervical cancer vaccine giant, with a market value of more than 100 billion at one time. In fact, it is better for Zhong Xuxu to be the richest man in China than a real estate tycoon to be the richest man in China.
A few years ago, China's richest man was either Xu Jiayin or Wang Jianlin. Zhong once said that real estate is not good for China. There are very few rich people in the U.S. who are in the real estate industry, and they can't do it at the same scale.
Most of the super-rich in the United States today are tech tycoons, and they are real tech tycoons, not Internet tycoons. There are very few tech tycoons in China, and even if there are, they are all Internet tycoons.
In the past two years, the market value of many Internet companies has shrunk a lot, so the net worth of many Chinese Internet tycoons has also shrunk a lot. In fact, in today's global Internet field, it is still American companies that basically provide the underlying services. China can get its hands on Huawei.
In fact, there are quite a few businessmen in China who have such an idea, for example, Mu Zhong, who once proposed to blow up the Himalayas and introduce the Pacific Ocean Current, and he also said that he would launch satellites. But in the end, all of his statements were just talking, and he said this for money.