American hi-tech scrooges became impoverished in 2022 and, overall, saw $433 billion go up in smoke.
It is the Washington Post that accounts for the big names in Silicon Valley.
Elon Musk has lost, on paper, 132 billion dollars with the collapse of Tesla shares.
Despite this Musk is worth 139 billion.
Jeff Bezos instead saw 84.1 billion go up in smoke with the decline of almost 50% of Amazon shares.
Even if poorer Bezos continues to be worth more than 100 billion, 108 to be exact.
Mark Zuckerberg burned 80.7 billion and slipped from sixth position of the world's scrooges to 25th, worth 'only' 44.8 billion.
The two founders of Google are also poorer: Larry Page and Sergey Brin have lost a total of almost 88 billion (44.8 billion Page and 43.4 billion Brin) and are now worth just over 80 billion each.
Things are no better for Bill Gates: the founder of Microsoft has become impoverished by 28.7 billion and his fortune is now 109 billion.