The owner of Tesla and Twitter, Elon Musk, has broken a record that is already reflected in the Guinness Book.

However, he is one with undoubtedly negative connotations: he is the person who has experienced the greatest loss of personal fortune.

According to Forbes' own publication,

Musk lost some 165,000 million dollars in just over a year

, although they believe that it could be even more money.

Guinness estimates that the fortune of the businessman, one of the creators of Paypal, went from a maximum of 320,000 million dollars in November 2021 to a not inconsiderable 155,000 million in December of last year.

It would suppose, therefore, a reduction of 51.5% in the 'portfolio' of him.

The cause of this loss is, mainly, that Tesla's shares have plummeted after the purchase of Twitter by the South African magnate.

The manager's fortune is supported by the large number of shares of the electric car firm that he owns, and in recent months they have not stopped falling.

In fact, some of Tesla's shareholders have already made public their concern about the time Musk spends on the social network and the controversies in which the businessman is famous, among other things, for posting memes on his account.

In any case, the Guinness book also acknowledges that the estimate that has led to its appearance on its pages could be modest, since there are sources that place the losses at

around 200,000 million dollars

, which would mean almost two thirds of his fortune.

Both amounts are, in any case, enough to pulverize the previous mark, the 58,600 million left by the Japanese investor

Masayoshi Son

during the dot-com crisis.

The Japanese businessman went from having 78,000 million dollars in February 2000 to only 19,400 million in July of the same year, dragged down by the loss of value of Softbank.

At one point, the firm's situation was so difficult that it was estimated that Son was losing about $5 billion a day, while Musk's was losing about $4 billion a day.

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