Tesla boss Elon Musk is now the second richest person in the world - he has replaced Bill Gates.
Only one man is richer.
Elon Musk
is now richer than
Microsoft co-
founder Bill Gates.
The
Tesla
boss is benefiting in particular from the upturn on the
stock market
.
Business
magazine Forbes still
sees Musk behind
Bill Gates
.
Kassel - Entrepreneur and
Tesla
boss
Elon Musk
is
one of the two richest people in the world
according to the latest calculations of the “Bloomberg Billionaires Index”, a
billionaire ranking
.
He even overtook
Microsoft co-
founder
Bill Gates
and is now only behind
Amazon
founder and major shareholder
Jeff Bezos
.
Thanks to the soaring
US electric car developer
Tesla on the stock exchange,
Elon Musk's
fortune
continues to grow.
Musk, who is also
CEO of
the US aerospace company
SpaceX
, is now the second richest person in the world due to the sharp rise in Tesla shares.
Fnp.de * also reports on it.
7.2 billion US dollars thanks to Tesla shares: Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates
Musk's net worth rose
7.2 billion
in a single day
after
Tesla stock rose
6.5.
In addition, Musk's wealth is said to have increased by a whopping $ 100.3 billion since the beginning of the year.
With the French
Bernard Arnault
, a
European
is also represented
in the top 5 richest people in the world:
Jeff Bezos | 182 billion |
Elon Musk | 128 billion |
Bill Gates | 128 billion |
Bernard Arnault | 105 billion |
Mark Zuckerberg | 102 billion |
Jeff Bezos ahead of Elon Musk and Bill Gates - Tesla's stock market value continues to rise
Bill Gates, who ranks third in Bloomberg's billionaires ranking, is considered a
philanthropist
.
In 2018, he said in an
interview
with Spiegel Online that he was “on a list of the rich” would show that he was “probably not giving away his money quickly enough”.
Amazon
boss Jeff Bezos
is still standing in
front of Gates and
Elon Musk
.
The exchanges ensure that the richest men in the world get even wealthier, especially Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
He overtook former Microsoft boss Bill Gates.
#BillGates #ElonMusk https://t.co/CAksYmTBzY
- W&V (@wuv) November 24, 2020
As
major shareholders of
their companies, the three benefit above all from the strong price development on the
stock exchange
.
So that is
Tesla
's share price increased over the last twelve months by as much as 675 percent.
Despite relatively low production figures so far, the group is
by far the most heavily traded car manufacturer in the world
with a market value of around
500 billion US dollars
.
Other values at Forbes Magazine: Tesla boss Elon Musk only in 31st place
It should be said, however, that the figures in the billionaire ranking are only
estimates
.
The same applies to the “Billionaires List” of the business
magazine Forbes
.
These estimates are based on publicly available assets such as
stocks
, luxury goods,
real estate
and works of art.
But how exactly the estimated assets will ultimately be composed cannot be exactly said.
So is
Tesla
boss
Elon Musk
estimates of Forbes magazine with a fortune of 24.6 billion US dollars ranked only 31 of the richest people in the world, far behind
Jeff Bezos
and
Bill Gates
.
(Nail Akkoyun)
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