Elon Musk's stratospheric rise to trillionaire status - in charts
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Elon Musk became the world's first trillionaire on Friday, following the record-breaking stock market debut of his company SpaceX.
Key facts
Musk currently owns a 12% stake in Tesla, a company with a market valuation of around $1.5tn, and a 42% stake in SpaceX, which is now worth more than $2tn
In January 2020, he was only the 35th richest person in the world, with a fortune of around $28bn
With a current estimated net worth of about $1.11tn, Musk sits well above wealthy billionaires topping rich lists, including Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos
By January 2021, the tech mogul had risen to become the world's richest person, briefly overtaking Jeff Bezos
Summary
With a current estimated net worth of about $1.11tn, Musk sits well above wealthy billionaires topping rich lists, including Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and boss of French luxury goods group LVMH, Bernard Arnault. Musk - who first made waves in the tech industry in the late 1990s - hasn't always topped the rich list though. In January 2020, he was only the 35th richest person in the world, with a fortune of around $28bn. But his wealth took off that year as the value of his two biggest companies - electric carmaker Tesla and space exploration and AI firm SpaceX - began to grow sharply.