This is the fortune of Elon Musk: the richest man on the planet
- Forbes magazine places his wealth as the largest in the world with 255.1 billion dollars of assets
- Twitter has been the last purchase of the CEO of Tesla worth 44 billion dollars
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Elon Musk, since last April 5, has been at the top of the Forbes list as the richest man in the world , with a fortune of 255.1 billion dollars , according to calculations shown by the prestigious American magazine. This list brings together the world's greatest fortunes , including names like Jeff Bezzos, CEO of Amazon, or Amancio Ortega, owner and founder of Inditex. The Forbes list counts in real time all the movements of the great fortunes to place them in the ranking. In addition, through its website you can find out the latest news related to the companies of the world's richest billionaires.
One of these latest news that Elon Musk has starred in is the 'mega-operation' of the purchase of the Twitter company which, according to 'The New York Times', is the largest exclusion from the stock market in the last two decades. For a value of 44 billion dollars, the richest businessman in the world has acquired the company of the little blue bird, adding, together with SpaceX and Tesla, the third of his multinationals.
HOW MUCH MONEY DOES ELON MUSK HAVE?
To calculate the wealth of the richest man on the planet, you have to take into account the value of the companies he owns, because they are Musk 's main source of income . In addition to these companies, the South African American earns passive income from other sources such as his "dogecoin" cryptocurrency, which was launched last year. To get an idea of the real amount of Musk's assets, you have to compare his fortune -247.6 billion dollars- with the GDP of countries such as Greece -190.82 billion dollars-, Iran -204.5 billion dollars- or New Zealand -210.7 billion dollars.
Space X
The American company that works to revolutionize space travel is worth approximately 74 billion dollars as of February 2021. Space X is one of Musk's latest projects to revolutionize the world, the company managed to launch on April 8 with successful first fully private rocket to the International Space Station , one of the greatest feats in a space mission. In addition, the company has great forecasts for the future and development.
Tesla Motors
The signature of the 'T' in the electric vehicles that Musk manufactures and develops , may be his distinguished company, for his career, for his way of revolutionizing the motor world and for being one of the largest companies in the United States and the World. Tesla is the sixth company in the United States to exceed a trillion dollars and Musk owns 21% of the company. The business projections of this company are exceeded every year. This project was the one that since 2003, the year of its foundation, has accompanied the richest man in the world to the top of it.
THE STORY OF THE RICHEST MAN IN THE WORLD
Elon Musk was born in Pretoria (South Africa) on July 28, 1971. Since childhood, Musk has shown a great love for space and programming, at the age of 12 he sold his first video game for a value of 500 dollars. Since then, the richest man in the world has been cultivating his passion that would later help him get where he is today. After his beginnings in South Africa, Musk emigrated to Canada, where a large part of his relatives reside, after which, at the age of 18, he moved to the United States, where he would study economics and physics at the University of Pennsylvania, and later move to California for a Ph.D. Musk only spent two days at this university, since he decided to abandon his studies to finally pursue his dreams.
Currently, Elon Musk resides in Austin (Texas) where he lives with his wife and seven children. From there, and from the main branches of his companies, the richest man in the world manages his fortune and manages his large-scale business projections.
University education
At the age of nineteen, Alan was enrolled in the undergraduate program at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. After two years of education in 1992, it moved to Pennsylonia and completed graduation in Physics at the age of 24 from the College for Art and Science of Pennsylonia State University. At the same time, Alan received a bachelor's degree in economics. In 1995, he moved to California, where he enrolled in a PhD in application physics from Stanford University, but only two days later, he called education a good by so that he was new business in various fields like renewable energy, internet and space travel. Can fulfill the dream of starting. In 2002, Alan acquired US citizenship.
The first website
In 1995, Musk, his brother blanket, and Greg Corey found money from Musk's father and founded the web software company ZIP2. He started the project in a small rental office in Palo Alto, the company developed an Internet City Guide for the publishing industry and marketing it, containing pages containing maps, instructions and phone directives. There were included. According to Elon Musk, he was not able to rent the office or apartment before the website was found. -
The Compacion Company bought ZIP2 in February 1999 for $ 307 million, and Musk received $ 22 million according to its 7 percent share.
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