DINNER PARTY INTEL: Pretoria’s richest son
Tesla co-founder Elon Musk has overtaken Bill Gates to become the world’s second-richest person
1. Pretoria’s richest son
Tesla co-founder Elon Musk has overtaken Bill Gates to become the world’s second-richest person, after yet another surge in the electric car company’s share price lifted his net worth $7.2bn to $127.9bn. He now sits behind Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, who is worth $181.4bn. Only last week the SA-born entrepreneur bumped Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg out of the third-richest spot. Gates, who has donated $50bn to charity, is worth a paltry $127.7bn. Musk could net a $55.8bn bonus should Tesla’s market value, now almost $500bn, climb to $650bn. Zuckerberg, worth $102bn, fell to fourth spot this week, behind LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault...
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