Elon Musk overtakes Jeff Bezos to become 'the richest man in the world'



Elon Musk, who works on electric car maker Tesla and space venture company SpaceX, has surpassed Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos to become the number one in the world.

Bloomberg Billionaires Index

https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/



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According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which is updated daily on the New York stock market, Elon Musk's total assets were $ 195 billion at the close of trading on January 7, 2021 local time. ). Jeff Bezos is $ 185 billion (about 19.22 trillion yen), so it is the first place with a difference of about 1 trillion yen.

Mr. Musk's ranking has risen tremendously, surpassing prominent investor Warren Buffett in July 2020 to 7th place, and in November 2020, Bill Gates, who was once the richest man in the world. I overtook and was in second place.

According to CNBC, Mr. Musk's assets in 2020 will surpass Gates' total assets of $ 132 billion (about 13.70 trillion yen).

Mr. Musk, who learned that he became the richest man in the world in a tweet from Tesla's official owner club, tweeted, 'It's strange.'



Then I went back to work.



As of January 7, 2021, when Mr. Musk ranked first, the top 10 people and total assets are as follows.

1st place: Elon Musk (founder of Tesla) / $ 195 billion (about 20.25 trillion yen)
2nd place: Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon.com) / $ 185 billion (about 19.22 trillion yen)
3rd place: Bill Gates (founder of Microsoft) / $ 134 billion (about 14 trillion yen)
4th place: Bernard Arnault ( LVMH and Christian Dior Chairman and CEO) / $ 116 billion (about 12.6 trillion yen)
5th place: Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook founder) / $ 102 billion (about 10.6 trillion yen)
# 6:鍾睒睒(China's largest beverage manufacturers farmer Yamashimizu founder) / 93.1 billion US dollars (about 9 trillion 682 billion yen)
7th place: Warren Buffett (Chairman and CEO of investment company Berkshire Hathaway) / $ 88.2 billion (about 9,172 billion yen)
8th place: Larry Page (Google founder) / $ 83.6 billion (about 8.692 trillion yen)
9th place: Sergey Brin (Google founder) / $ 81 billion (about 8,422 billion yen)
10th place: Larry Ellison (founder of Oracle) / 80 billion dollars (about 8.318 trillion yen)

Among Japanese, Tadashi Yanai, Chairman and President of FAST RETAILING, is ranked 27th for $ 43.1 billion (about 4,481 billion yen).

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