Elon Musk becomes world's richest person
bill gates now world's second richest person Tesla co-founder overtakes Amazon’s Jeff Bezos as car firm’s shares soar after ‘blue Senate’ victory the maverick boss of Tesla, has overtaken Amazon’s Jeff Bezos to become the world’s richest person, after shares in the electric car company he co-founded soared on hopes that a Democrat-controlled US Senate would usher in a new green agenda. A 4.8% rise in Tesla’s share price was enough to push Musk into the top spot according to the Bloomberg billionaires index , which tracks the daily changes in the fortunes of the world’s 500 wealthiest people. The 49-year-old entrepreneur’s net worth hit $186bn (£136bn) at 10.15am in New York on Wednesday, making him $1.5bn richer than Bezos, who had held the top spot since October 2017. Musk responded to the news of his status as the world’s richest person with tweets stating “how strange” and “well, back to work …” Musk said he intended to use half of his fortune to “help problems on Earth”...
