As Elon Musk zooms past Bill Gates in rich people list, Indians Google who is the richest?

Curious Indians have been googling ‘who is richest person in world’ since Tesla CEO Elon Musk surpassed Microsoft co-found Bill Gates earlier this week and became world’s second-richest person with net worth soaring from $7.2 billion to $127.9 billion. As per Bloomberg Billionaires Index, X CEO ded 100.3 billion in his net worth this year after a sudden surge in Tesla’s share price. In January, among 500 richest people in world, Musk was at number 35. 

Since reports emerged of Musk becoming second-richest person in world just after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and before Gates, Indians have been googling about most wealthy person in world with searches including ‘Elon Musk richest man’ and ‘world richest man’. Some internet users also wanted to kw richest person in Asia or Nepal or top ten richest persons across globe. 

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Musk responds to overtaking Gates

Tesla CEO himself responded to news of overtaking Gates’ wealth and expressed astonishment on Twitter. year 2020 has been pleasantly good for Musk with his fortunes being directly linked to Tesla of which according to Bloomberg, last own 20% of company’s stock. Meanwhile, this year, amid COVID-19 pandemic, Tesla’s stock spiked almost 524% contributing to Musk ding over $100 billion to his wealth. 

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Outside of Tesla, Elon Musk also oversees X, his exploration firm that recently me historic launches including missions in collaboration with NASA. He is also far of six and chairman of Musk Foundation which is an organisation that supporters research into renewable energy along with humans in . Just last week, Tesla was accepted into S&P 500 and is set to join index next month. 

As per reports, Bill Gates would be an even bigger billionaire if t for his philanthropy. Along with his wife Melinda Gates, Microsoft co-founder h donated most of wealth to charity years ago. Currently, Amazon CEO is world’s richest person with net worth being $182 billion. A few months ago, Bezos’ wealth reached a milestone that has never been achieved by any or human being even after justing inflation.

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