Elon Musk set a record and became the richest man on the planet during the existence of the Forbes rating

In recent years, interest in the Forbes list seems to have waned. Nothing interesting happened there:

Most of the time, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos was in first place and no one tried to “throw him off” from the top. Discuss

But in 2021, Elon Musk began to amaze.First, he removed the former head of the online giant from the first place. True, then he returned to the second line. And now, as it became known, the founder of SpaceX has set a record.

At the time of writing, he owned capital worth $272.3 billion. This, according to Forbes, made Musk "the richest person in world history."

One of the reasons for this dramatic improvementthe financial wealth of the billionaire was a sharp rise in the price of Tesla shares. Their growth for the past Monday alone exceeded 13%. This, by the way, allowed the electric vehicle manufacturer to rise in price to over $ 1 trillion.