{"id":200479,"date":"2026-03-11T22:20:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/200479\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T22:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T22:20:13","slug":"13-austin-billionaires-are-the-richest-worldwide-per-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/200479\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Austin billionaires are the richest worldwide, per Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Forbes, there has \u201cnever been a better time to be a billionaire\u201d than in 2026, and the publication’s newest World\u2019s Billionaires List<\/a> has revealed the 13 Austin billionaires that have risen among the wealthiest worldwide.<\/p>\n

Austin billionaire Elon Musk was declared the world’s richest person for the second consecutive year, and Forbes said his \u201cgrip on the top spot is as strong as it\u2019s ever been.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cMusk became the first person to hit $500 billion in wealth, in October,\u201d Forbes said. \u201cThen $600 billion and $700 billion, within four days in December. Then $800 billion, in February.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI founder\u2019s current net worth has skyrocketed to $839 billion \u2014 a shocking $497 billion more than his 2025 net worth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell is Austin’s second-richest resident, whose fortune has grown from $97.7 billion to $141 billion this year. <\/p>\n

Here’s how the rest of Austin’s billionaires fared on this year’s list:<\/p>\n

Venture capitalist Robert F. Smith: ranked No. 341 with an estimated net worth of $10 billion, down from $10.8 billion in 2025Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia: No. 440; $8.2 billion, down from $8.3 billionTech entrepreneur Thai Lee: No. 509; $7.5 billion, up from $7 billionSoftware investor Joseph Liemandt: No. 623; $6.6 billion, up from $6.2 billionTito’s Vodka baron Bert Beveridge: No. 762; $5.5 billion, up from $4.8 billionVenture capitalist and early Facebook investor Jim Breyer: No. 1325; $3.2 billion, up from $1.8 billionPatr\u00f3n Spirits founder John Paul DeJoria: No. 1406; $3 billion, unchanged since 2024GoodLeap co-founder Hayes Barnard: tied for No. 1440; $2.9 billion, down from $3.3 billionVenture capitalist and data mining entrepreneur Joe Lonsdale: tied for No. 1440; $2.9 billion, up from $2 billionFinance chief executive David Booth: No. 1560; $2.7 billion, up from $2.5 billionSoftware tech magnate James Truchard: No. 3017; $1.2 billion, up from $1 billion<\/p>\n

Other Texas billionaires in 2026
Elsewhere in Central Texas, Temple-based billionaire Drayton McLane, Jr., who is the chairman of holding company McLane Group, ranked No. 908 this year with a net worth of $4.7 billion, up from $4 billion last year.<\/p>\n

In Dallas-Fort Worth, Walmart heiress Alice Walton has maintained her elite status as the world\u2019s richest woman<\/a> for the third year in a row. Walton is the 14th richest person on the planet with a current net worth of $134 billion, an eye-catching $33 billion higher than her 2025 net worth<\/a>. She is the first<\/a> American woman worth $100 billion, and one of only 20 \u201ccenti-billionaires\u201d worldwide claiming 12-figure fortunes, also known as the “$100 Billion Club<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Koch Inc. stakeholder Elaine Marshall and her family are the richest Dallas residents, ranking No. 71 globally with an estimated net worth of $30.9 billion. Her net worth has grown by $2.6 billion since last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to Forbes, there has \u201cnever been a better time to be a billionaire\u201d than in 2026, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,7150,36975,62711],"class_list":["post-200479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-billionaires","tag-forbes","tag-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}