It’s not news that Elon Musk is a wealthy stallion, but just how wealthy is his variant of wealthy?
As of recent news, he’s been crowned as not only the richest person in the world currently, but in the history of the world and all the ancestors of wealth, as per Forbes.
He’s also so wealthy that he could keep the entire South African government running for two years by himself without worry of bankruptcy. In fact, he’d still be wealthier than South Africa;s richest person, Nicky Oppenheimer as Business Insider reports.
This week, Mr Musk’s riches were valued to reach for the stars at a stacking R4.25 trillion.
Not long before he was valued to be worth a small fortune of just R3.7 trillion, but the massive spike in his wealth came in just under 24 hours.
It’s being called the largest one-day gain in history and it’s mostly to do with Tesla’s share prices going on a steep hike. Tesla stock jumped nearly 13%, and more than 16 million new stock options worth billions in dollars also didn’t hurt the jump in numbers. Additionally, Hertz purchased a very large order of electric vehicles – the largest ever, and as a result Tesla is now sitting lavishly at above $1 trillion.
As Musk owns 21% of Tesla shares, it was a pretty good 24-hours for the space cadet.
Musk has now well-lapped past Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates.
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