Musk entered the top three richest people in the world

The Tesla and SpaceX founder’s fortune exceeded $ 111.3 billion.

American businessman Elon Musk ranked third on the list of the world’s richest people, ahead of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in this indicator. This was reported by Bloomberg.

According to its experts, on August 31, the fortune of the founder of Tesla and SpaceX exceeded $ 111.3 billion. Musk got richer than the founder of Facebook, which, according to Bloomberg calculations, has assets worth $ 110.5 billion.

The second place is occupied by the founder of the American corporation Microsoft Bill Gates with 125,000 million dollars, and the first place is occupied by the founder of the world’s largest online retailer, Amazon, Jeff Bezos. Bloomberg estimates his fortune at $ 200 billion.

Bloomberg emphasizes that the main factor in the growth of Musk’s fortune was a sharp increase in the price of Tesla shares. According to the agency’s estimates, since the beginning of the year, its value has increased by 475%, enriching the founder of the company by 76,000 million dollars.

Musk has previously revealed new details about the Neuralink project, which is developing chips for implantation in the brain.

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