SpaceX will launch Elon Musk to become world’s first TRILLIONAIRE – Morgan StanleyĮven before Monday’s gains, his lead over Bezos had grown to $55 billion, according to Forbes. The South Africa-born entrepreneur surpassed Amazon’s Jeff Bezos as the world’s richest person in September, when the estimated value of his holdings reached $200 billion.
With about 1.083 billion shares outstanding, the company’s market cap was $1.13 trillion at Monday afternoon’s intraday high.As the owner of 22.4% of Tesla’s shares, Musk saw the value of his stake climb as high as $253.5 billion. The latest surge came on the first day of regular trading after Tesla’s stock closed above $900 for just the second time. The shares rose by as much as 15%, changing hands at $1,045 in Nasdaq trading on Monday. Tesla CEO Elon Musk just got considerably richer, as the world’s wealthiest man saw the value of his flagship company reach an all-time high at $1 trillion, after the electric-vehicle (EV) maker landed a record order from Hertz.
