Elon Musk becomes world's richest person worth $185bn
Source: BBC
Elon Musk has become the world's richest person, as his net worth crossed $185bn (136bn). The Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur was pushed into the top slot after Tesla's share price increased on Thursday. He takes the top spot from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who had held it since 2017. Mr Musk's electric car company Tesla has surged in value this year, and hit a market value of $700bn (516bn) for the first time on Wednesday. That makes the car company worth more than Toyota, Volkswagen, Hyundai, GM and Ford combined. Mr Musk reacted to the news in signature style, replying to a Twitter user sharing the news with the remark "how strange".
An older tweet pinned to the top of his feed offered further insight into his thoughts on personal wealth.
"About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth, and half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure continuation of life (of all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens and we destroy ourselves," it reads, The tycoon's fortunes have been buoyed by politics in the US, where the Democrats will have control of the US Senate in the forthcoming session. Daniel Ives, an analyst with Wedbush Securities wrote: "A Blue Senate is bullish for the [electric vehicle] sector, with a more green-driven agenda now certainly in the cards for the next few years." Expected electric vehicle tax credits would benefit Tesla, "which continues to have an iron grip on the market today", he added.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55578403
live love laugh
(13,100 posts)GentleAlien
(57 posts)Who were generally tight-lipped about Trump and GOP shenanigans until very recently. Here's how he describes interactions with Trump:
"I have spoken to the president about sustainable energy many times and actually there are times when he's been supportive, but then, at the end of the day, he has got way more support from the oil and gas industry because it's way bigger. The electric car industry is small,"
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-discusses-trump-biden-election-voting-2020-9
Pretty one-dimensional viewpoint, isn't it?
Btw Bill Gates donated 50 million + toward the COVID vaccine. Any idea how much this guy donated?
Hiawatha Pete
(1,797 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)Lunabell
(6,078 posts)Zero.
KPN
(15,642 posts)supposedly rescue us from TrumpVirus, i.e., taxpayer dollars.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Im sure hed like that.