Fictional Entrepreneurs vs Real-life Billionaires

1) Bernard Arnault - net worth: £232 billion

Bernard Arnault manages an empire of over 70 brands including Louis Vuitton and Sephora. His holding company, LVMH, completed the biggest luxury brand acquisition in recent times, completing a deal for Tiffany & Co for £11.50 billion.

2) Elon Musk - net worth: £195 billion

Tesla’s +1102% increase in share price since 2018 has rocketed Elon Musk up the real-life rich list, due to his 22.4% share in the company. Elon Musk’s unconventional and eccentric nature doesn’t put him far out of place with some of the comic book heroes in this list!

3) Mark Zuckerberg - net worth: £177 billion

Zuckerberg’s wealth comes from making Facebook public in 2012, which valued the company at £79 billion – the largest valuation to date for a newly public company.

However, the long-term longevity of Mark Zuckerberg on rich lists is in doubt – with him and his wife, Priscilla Chan, pledging to give away 99% of their Facebook stakes over their lifetime.

4) Jeff Bezos - net worth: £194 billion

Ahead of both Bruce Wayne (Batman) and Tywin Lannister (Game of Thrones) is the real-life richest entrepreneur, Jeff Bezos. His monumental wealth mainly comes from his 10.3% stake in Amazon. Putting Bezos’ wealth into proportion: he makes £110k per minute and £1,845 per second, very close to what the average UK salary is per month (£1,950).

5) Tony Stark - net worth: £173 billion

Tony Stark, Ironman, leads our fictional characters in terms of wealth, due to majority shareholdings in the massively successful Stark Industries. A monopoly in clean energy, the Ark Reactor, alongside the invention of flesh healing serum and continued supply of international arms would put him ahead of Bezos in the real world.

6) Bruce Wayne - net worth: £155 billion

Bruce Wayne (Batman) is touted as being 'richer than countries' in End Game. His wealth includes Wayne Enterprises, an international conglomerate with activity in the majority of the sectors of the economy. Wayne Tech in particular specialises in nanite and nanotechnology.

7) Bill Gates - net worth: £128 billion

Despite Bill Gates’ recent divorce from Melinda, the tech giant is still in our rich-list top 10 primarily due to his historical shares in Microsoft. 

8) Tywin Lannister - net worth: £96 billion

At the beginning of Game of Thrones we learn that Robert Baratheon puts the crown into a 3million gold debt to the Lannisters. Converting this into real money, alongside assets like Casterley Rock and the Golden Tooth mine, we think Tywin Lannister would be one of the richest men in the world.

9) Charles Foster Kane - net worth: £38 billion

The Kane family were initially poor, however received a mine which turned out to be full of gold. Charles Foster Kane capitalises on this massively by turning the gold into a media conglomerate. The story is loosely based upon William Randolph Hearst, a real-life media baron with a $3billion wealth in the 1940s.

10) John Hammond - net worth: £34 billion

From the Jurassic Park books we know that John Hammond had several previous scientific ventures to give him the wealth to build his final park. The cost of his Jurassic Park and the research involved would require more than a few billion in the bank.