Businessman and inventor, CEO and founder of Tesla Elon Musk became the richest person in the entire history of calculations of the richest. This is reported by the authoritative edition of Forbes.
This happened thanks to a sharp increase in Tesla shares by 13% and more than 16 million options on Tesla shares worth $16,1 billion. Thanks to this, Tesla's market capitalization exceeded $1 trillion.
Forbes estimated Musk's fortune at $271,3 billion at the time of market close on Monday, which is about $41,7 billion more than on Friday. According to the Forbes Real-Time rating, as of Wednesday morning, the billionaire's capital is $253,8 billion.
Former record holder, founder and former CEO of Amazon Jeff Bezos was the richest person with a fortune of $212 billion.
Musk's 21% share in Tesla (excluding credit obligations) is the main part of his fortune, but he also owns a minority share in SpaceX, which he founded in 2002. After the February round of financing, this business was valued by investors at $74 billion.
Experts believe that Elon Musk has a chance to become the first trillionaire in the history of mankind thanks to his SpaceX space company.
