Richer than Zuckerberg: the head of Tesla Elon Musk entered the top three richest people on the planet

Recently, NASA and Elon Musk’s company SpaceX launched the first regular flight to the ISS on a manned

ship Crew Dragon. But for Musk this is not the only significant event this week: he also became one of the three richest people on the planet.

Let's talk about numbers

According to Bloomberg, Musk's wealth has increasedup to $120 billion, which gave him the basis to rise to third place in the ranking. By the way, Elon pushed Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who now has 103 billion in his pocket.

Thus, now only two are richer than Muskpeople: Microsoft creator Bill Gates (128 billion) and Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (183 billion). As you can see, Elon Musk is already very close to Bill Gates’ figure.

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It seems that the reason for the increase in Musk's fortune wasinclusion of Tesla in the S&amp;P 500 index. His account also includes shares of 505 selected companies that are traded on the US stock exchange and have the largest capitalization. Tesla's capitalization now stands at $386 billion, and since the beginning of 2020, the company's shares have grown by more than 400%.

Tesla shares jumped 14% following news that it would join the index. Although in fact, the company will officially join the S&amp;P 500 only next month.

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