Elon Musk’s fortunes are now estimated at more than $180 billion (roughly Rs. 13,20,940 crore).





Whether the topic is transforming the automobile or conquering the next frontier of space, Elon Musk has shown a knack for captivating an audience beyond investors and science geeks.

The brash Tesla CEO, now the World's Wealthiest person following the electric automaker's meteoric rise, was the quintessential Silicon Valley disruptor - except he no longer lives in California.

The norm-shattering entrepreneur, who has more than 41 million followers on Twitter and a fortune now estimated at  more than $ 180 billion (Rs. 13,19,700 crores), announced last month he had relocated to TExas and could not resist one last dig at the West Coast state.

"If a team has beeen winning for too long, they do tend to get a little complacement, a little entitled, and then they don't win the championship anymore, 

Musk  said at a conference hosted by the Wall street journal . California has been winning for a long time...and they are taking it for granted.

 

On Thursday, Musk surpassed Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos  as the world's wealthiest person.


In the past year alone, Musk has added $165 billion (approximately Rs 12.1 lakh crore) to his fortune, the report said.

However, Forbes said that Musk was not yet the richest man in the world and estimated his net worth to be around $175.2 billion (approximately Rs 12.8 lakh crore), while it said Bezos has a net worth of $186.8 billion (approximately Rs 13.7 lakh crore).

The 49-year-old South African engineer’s first reactions to reports that he was the richest man in the world included “how strange” and “well, back to work”.

Bezos had become the richest man in the world in 2017, ending Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ decades-long run at the top. One of the reasons for the decrease in Bezos’ wealth is reportedly his divorce settlement. Bezos transferred stocks worth around $36 billion when he finalised his divorce with his wife MacKenzie Bezos in April 2019. It was said to be the biggest divorce settlement in history.