Effectively, that was fast.
Elon Musk is now price $187 billion, in accordance with the most recent installment of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making him the wealthiest man on this planet.
Final December, the chief of Area X, Tesla, and Twitter was dethroned because the world’s richest man by Bernard Arnault, the French tycoon who owns 48% of vogue firm LVMH.
However Musk regained the highest spot at this time, edging out Arnault by $2 billion. For these protecting rating at dwelling, the third richest man on this planet is Amazon government chairman Jeff Bezos with a paltry $117 billion.
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A very good begin to 2023 for Musk
Regardless of some monetary setbacks late final yr, together with breaking the Guinness World Report for the biggest lack of private fortune ever, Musk has obtained some excellent news over the previous few months.
First, Tesla inventory has rallied considerably after dropping nearly 70%. Musk additionally tweeted that Twitter is on tempo to interrupt even after struggling massive losses in 2022.
Final 3 months had been extraordinarily powerful, as needed to save Twitter from chapter, whereas fulfilling important Tesla & SpaceX duties. Would not want that ache on anybody.
Twitter nonetheless has challenges, however is now trending to breakeven if we hold at it. Public help is way appreciated!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 5, 2023
Musk has additionally had some authorized victories. Final month, Tesla shareholders sued him for making false statements in his tweets in 2018 about taking the corporate non-public. The jury sided with Musk, clearing him of any wrongdoing.