It takes money to make money. There is hardly a better example of this than the French billionaire Francoise Bettencourt Meyers.
In late December, she broke through the $100-billion threshold and became the first woman to ever amass so much wealth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. In 2023, she added $28.6 billion (€26.1 billion) on top of the billions she already had.
