Elon Musk Surpasses Jeff Bezos to Become World’s Richest Person
January 8, 2021 9:50AM CST
BEVERLY HILLS, CA – FEBRUARY 26: Maye Musk (L) and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk attend the 2017 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on February 26, 2017 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now the richest person on the planet. According to Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index, Musk’s net worth surpassed 188-billion-dollars today.
This comes after a boost in Tesla’s share price. This now puts him ahead of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, whose net worth is around 185-billion-dollars.
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