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Elon Musk, Founder of the manufacturer of Tesla high-end electric vehicles, Became the richest man in the world on Thursday thanks to the shooting of the shares of his stock market, according to calculations by the Bloomberg agency.
With the rise of the titles of Tesla bag, and with 18% ownership of the company, the 49-year-old entrepreneur who also runs SpaceX, thus exceeds a Jeff Bezos, The founder of Amazon, who was since 2017 the richest man in the world, according to the agency that has a ranking of billionaires.
Tesla’s stock more than seven times its value in 2020 and continued to rise Wall Street on Thursday, so the fortune of this engineer of South African descent was achieved $ 188.5 billion shortly after the opening of the stock exchange, $ 1.5 billion above what was accumulated by Bezos.
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Wednesday Tesla exceeded for the first time the $ 700 billion market capitalization at the close of the bossa neoyorquna with a nearly 3% rise in its shares to $ 755.98.
On Thursday morning, the stock was hovering around $ 800, up 5.7%.
The group’s sales are still far from those of traditional vehicle manufacturers: Tesla sold 499,550 vehicles in 2020, far from Volkswagen’s 11 million by 2019.
But Tesla is benefiting from investor optimism about the future of electric vehicles and the fact that it managed to make money in five consecutive quarters, which helped enter the prestigious S&P 500 index in December.
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