Tesla & SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Is Now World's Richest Person

Update: 2021-01-08 04:48 GMT
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world. On Thursday, the 49-year-old entrepreneur overtaken Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to become the richest person in the world.

This is the first time since 2017 that the Amazon CEO has been surpassed by another person in the top list. Musk dethroned Jeff with more than 1.5 billion. As per reports, a 4.8 per cent rise in Tesla's share price on Thursday took Musk past Bezos, with a net worth of $188.5 billion. Bezos currently sits second at a net value of $187 billion.

Reacting to a tagged tweet from an account called "Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley" with the text "@elonmusk is now the richest person in the world at $190 billion", he simply said, "How Strange". He also continued and further said in another Tweet, "Well, back to work."

While most of the world was badly hit by the pandemic and has had a bad 2020, Musk has managed to boost his overall net worth over $150 billion during the past 12 months.
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