Elon Musk overtakes Jeff Bezos to become world's richest person (Putin, companies)

[Suburban_Guy]

Congrats!

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...hrt?li=BBnbfcN

Elon Musk edged past Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to grab the title of world's richest person, according to Bloomberg.

A 6% rise in Tesla shares early Thursday lifted the value of its CEO's stock holdings and options by $10 billion, taking his net worth to about $191 billion. A more modest rise of less than 2% lifted Bezos' Amazon shares by about $3 billion, putting his net worth at $187 billion.

Bloomberg's real-time billionaire tracker still has Bezos about $3 billion ahead of Musk. But the tracker doesn't update until the end of the trading day. Bloomberg posted an article confirming Musk's title.

Bill Gates is now a distant third at $132 billion, according to Bloomberg.

[kaimuki]

The world's biggest dirtbags. Nothing to celebrate.

[Allan Trafton]

I doubt he the world's richest. I'm sure the King of Saudi Arabia and Putin are worth far more.