Tesla CEO Elon Musk is now the richest man in the world. The billionaires index of the Bloomberg news agency shows this. The increase in Musk’s net worth is mainly due to the ever-rising Tesla stock price.
Today, Musk’s net worth is around $ 188.5 billion (€ 153 billion), Bloomberg said. That makes him about one and a half billion dollars richer than Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon. Tesla has had a record year last year and this is also evident from the stock price, which is now well above $ 800 (€ 651). Musk himself owns about a fifth of all Tesla shares, which are now worth eight times more than at the beginning of this year. In addition, Musk owes the increase in his assets to the fact that he received options on shares of Tesla in 2012 and 2018. That right now earns him a paper profit of $ 42 billion.
Musk himself prefers to focus his attention on his work, according to a response from him on Twitter: “Very strange. Well, time to go back to work,” said the South African. At least there is more than enough work to be done at Tesla at the moment. The brand is working hard on the development of Full Self Driving (FSD), which should become available to the first customers next year. In addition, Tesla is currently busy with the construction of the new factory in Berlin and the freak Cybertruck is also still in the pipeline. Enough to look forward to for Tesla shareholders and enthusiasts.