The world’s richest man has changed in three years… Musk overtakes Bezos
(New York = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kang Gun-taek = CEO Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla, an American electric car company, has become the richest man in the world.
CNBC Broadcasting reported that as of the 7th (local time), Musk CEO’s net worth was $185 billion (about 202 trillion won), surpassing Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos, who was $184 billion (about 201 trillion won).
Since October 2017, the title of the world’s richest man, monopolized by Bezos, has changed in three years and three months.
Musk barely reached the top 50 with a net worth of $27 billion at the beginning of last year, but since then, Tesla’s stock price soared more than 740% and jumped to the top in an instant.
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