Creator of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk has become the second richest man in the world after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, according to Bloomberg. Capital Mask rose to $128 billion after Tesla shares rose sharply on the news about adding them to the S&P 500 index in December.
Elon Musk, 49-year-old CEO and co-founder of Tesla (TSLA) and SpaceX founder, on Tuesday was named the second richest man in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Capital gains Mask increased by $7.2 billion on Monday and the whole $100,3 billion since the beginning of 2020 to $128 billion At the beginning of the year, Musk took 35th place in the rankings, and last week third place, ahead of the General Director of Facebook (FB) Mark Zuckerberg.
Now the three of leaders looks so: the first place every year from the beginning of 2017 is Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon (AMZN), whose capital Bloomberg estimated at 182 billion pounds, is the second Mask, the third founder of Microsoft (MSFT) bill gates, with a capital of $127,7 billion.
This year the company Mask Tesla has achieved great success, having increased the production of electric vehicles in difficult conditions of a pandemic coronavirus. Achieving the Tesla market capitalization of more than $535 billion made it the most expensive car company in the world, and making a profit for five months has enabled the company to qualify for inclusion in the S&P 500, to be held in December.
In September, the heads Tesla revealed its long-term ambitious plans to build new factories, Assembly lines and create their own batteries. The company warned investors that in the next year or two will lose a lot of cash.
Cost that the Mask is his private company SpaceX, which works not only on space programs and is a division of Starlink with ambitious plans for a network of satellites to provide high speed Internet for the entire population of Earth. Read more in the article Marketinfo.pro “the Company of satellite Internet Starlink Elon musk could become public through a “few years””.
Jeff Bezos also owns a private space company Blue Origin, which requires large investments.
Given that the data is Bloomberg talking about the incredible growth of the capital of the 500 richest people in the world at 23%, or $1.3 trillion, the news may cause a contentious relationship with the public, as millions of ordinary workers face financial difficulties due to the ongoing pandemic coronavirus.
