Sino-Singapore Jingwei Client, January 8th. Driven by the rise in Tesla's stock price, Tesla CEO Elon Musk's net worth continued to soar.
The Bloomberg billionaire ranking shows that Musk surpassed Amazon founder Bezos to become the world's new richest man, with a net worth of nearly $195 billion. This is just over a month after Musk became the world's second richest man.
Screenshot of Bloomberg Billionaires Ranking
Public reports show that Musk's net worth at the beginning of 2020 is 27 billion US dollars, ranking only within 50.
According to Bloomberg News, Tesla's stock price surge prompted Musk to surpass Bezos and become the top of the Bloomberg Billionaires list, reaching $194.8 billion, surpassing Bezos by $9.5 billion.
In the early hours of the 8th Beijing time, Musk posted on Weibo, saying: "Okay, go back to work." Suspected of surpassing Bezos to become the world's richest man in response.
It is understood that since October 2017, the position of the world's richest man has always belonged to Bezos, before this position was held by Microsoft founder Bill Gates for many years.
Wind data shows that on Thursday, local time, Tesla's stock price rose 7.94% to close at $816.04 per share, a record closing high.
In addition, Tesla's stock price has risen 875.35% since 2020, and has soared 23901.18% since its listing.
It is worth noting that in July 2020, Musk surpassed Warren Buffett to become the seventh richest person in the world; in August, he surpassed LV owner and chairman of LVMH Bernard Arnott to become the fourth richest person. ; In September, surpassed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to become the third richest man; in November, surpassed Bill Gates to become the second richest man.
In the report, Bloomberg said that Musk's soaring net worth "may be the fastest wealth creation ever."
According to the latest Bloomberg Billionaire Rankings, the top three are Musk, Bezos and Bill Gates.
In addition, Zuckerberg ranked fifth, and Zhong Sui, chairman of Nongfu Spring, who had just become the richest man in Asia, ranked sixth, followed by "stock god" Buffett.
(Zhongxin Jingwei APP)