According to Bloomberg's wealth index, Elon Musk has become the richest person in history with assets amounting to $348 billion (€333 billion).
Always higher. Already holding the record for the richest man in the world three years ago with assets amounting at the time to 338 billion dollars (323 billion euros), Elon Musk further inscribes his name in the 'History.
The native of Pretoria, South Africa, once again comes to the top of a Bloomberg ranking, published this Sunday, November 24, and which lists the 500 largest fortunes in the world, with a capital of 348 billion dollars (333 billion euros) currently in its possession.
In just one year, the CEO of SpaceX has raked in nearly 130 billion dollars (124 billion euros). And his recent support for Donald Trump would have a lot to do with it. Indeed, according to the American economic magazine Forbes, only a few hours after the Republican's victory in the presidential election was made official, the increases in his company's shares would have brought him an additional 15 billion dollars (around 14.3 billion euros). ).
A personal investment, therefore, but also financial since the South African billionaire, just appointed head of a ministry of “governmental efficiency”, has injected more than 100 million dollars (around 96 million euros) in the campaign of the man who is preparing to serve a second term in the White House.
Far ahead of its competitors
Elon Musk is now far ahead of three global tech figures. The founder of the giant Amazon Jeff Bezos, with 219 billion dollars to his assets (around 210 billion euros), the co-founder of the Oracle company Larry Elison with 206 billion dollars (197 billion euros) in his possession, as well than Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his 198 billion dollars (189 billion euros).
A Frenchman ranks in 5th position, Chairman and CEO Bernard Arnault of the luxury group LVMH and his capital of 163 billion dollars (around 156 billion euros).
