Tesla’s market value exceeds 50 trillion yen, and CEO Earon Musk surpasses Bill Gates in total assets ranking to become the second largest in the world – GIGAZINE

by Thomas Hawk

The market value of Tesla, an electric car maker, has finally reached 515 billion dollars (53.8 trillion yen), and the ranking of total personal assets announced by Bloomberg from the economic media. ”Bloomberg Billionaires IndexWith CEO Earon Musk’s total assets reaching $ 136 billion, he surpassed Bill Gates to become the second richest person in the world.

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Tesla’s stock price, which was about $ 86 (about 9,000 yen) a share around January 2020, rose to about $ 555 (about 58,000 yen) a share at the time of writing, more than 6 times. in less than 11 months. did.

In July 2020, Tesla’s market value reached $ 207.2 billion (22.26 billion yen), surpassing the market value of Toyota Motor and becoming the world’s highest-valued automaker. I did.

Tesla overtakes Toyota to become the world’s most valuable automaker-GIGAZINE

Musk owns a 20% stake in Tesla, with a significant increase in total assets. According to Bloomberg, about three-quarters of Musk’s net assets are Tesla shares.

Musk, who was ranked 35th in the total assets ranking in January 2020, surpassed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on November 17, 2020 to become third in the world, and Microsoft together on November 24, 2020. 2020. He has surpassed Bill Gates, the founder who has total assets of 129 billion dollars (about 13.48 trillion yen) at the time of writing, to jump to second place in the world.

The world’s number one is Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, with total assets of $ 183 billion (about 19.12 trillion yen).