Effectively, that was fast.

Elon Musk is now price $187 billion, in keeping with the most recent installment of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making him the wealthiest man on the earth.

Final December, the chief of Area X, Tesla, and Twitter was dethroned because the world’s richest man by Bernard Arnault, the French tycoon who owns 48% of trend firm LVMH.

However Musk regained the highest spot in the present day, edging out Arnault by $2 billion. For these retaining rating at dwelling, the third richest man on the earth is Amazon govt chairman Jeff Bezos with a paltry $117 billion.

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begin to 2023 for Musk

Regardless of some monetary setbacks late final 12 months, together with breaking the Guinness World Report for the biggest lack of private fortune ever, Musk has obtained some excellent news over the previous few months.

First, Tesla inventory has rallied considerably after dropping nearly 70%. Musk additionally tweeted that Twitter is on tempo to interrupt even after struggling huge losses in 2022.

Final 3 months have been extraordinarily robust, as needed to save Twitter from chapter, whereas fulfilling important Tesla & SpaceX duties. Would not want that ache on anybody.

Twitter nonetheless has challenges, however is now trending to breakeven if we hold at it. Public help is far appreciated!

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 5, 2023

Musk has additionally had some authorized victories. Final month, Tesla shareholders sued him for making false statements in his tweets in 2018 about taking the corporate non-public. The jury sided with Musk, clearing him of any wrongdoing.