The net worth of Elon Musk, founder of the electric car company Tesla and CEO of SpaceX, is now around $300 billion, according to Forbes’ rankings of the world’s richest people.
This means that 50-year-old Elon Musk is more than $100 billion ahead of Jeff Bezos, the founder and owner of Amazon. Blue Origin The competition for a mask in space.
CNN said that Musk, the newest member of Twitter’s board of directors, is worth more than twice the fortune of the legendary investor and CEO of Twitter Berkshire Hathaway (BRKB) Warren Buffett, who started investing in 1941 when he was 11 and now has a net worth of about $125 billion “only”.
Musk is also worth more than the fortunes of the two previous Microsoft CEOs, with Bill Gates having a fortune of $136 billion while Steve Ballmer has a fortune of $100 billion.
Musk could buy all 32 MLS teams (currently worth more than $112 billion, according to the data site Sporty) and still has nearly $190 billion left.
Musk’s net worth is only about $35 billion less than the GDP of South Africa, which has a GDP of $335 billion, according to the World Bank, and Musk’s net worth exceeds the GDP of Colombia, Finland, Pakistan, Chile and Portugal.
It’s clear that Elon Musk is in uncharted territory when it comes to wealth. He is the richest person ever, according to Forbes magazine, however, some historical experts argue that other American industrialists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie, as well as kings and rulers such as Mansa Musa of the 13th century Mali Empire and Augustus Caesar – who ruled from 27 BC until his death in AD 14 – they may have had more wealth when adjusting to inflation.