South African-born US entrepreneur Elon Musk is now the world’s richest person, with a net worth of $195 billion.
He overtakes Amazon’s Bezos to become the world’s richest person a net worth of more than $188.5 billion, $1.5 billion more than Bezos.
Musk, the chief executive officer (CEO) of SpaceX and Tesla, in his underwhelming response to his crowning glory moment, tweeted, “How strange” and added, “Well , back to work.”
A 4.8% rally in the electric carmaker’s share price Thursday boosted Musk past Amazon.com Inc. founder Jeff Bezos on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the world’s 500 wealthiest people.