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The Washington Post

January 7, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla CEO Elon Musk became the world’s richest person on Thursday, surpassing Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos after an early-morning stock rally.

Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index estimated Musk’s net worth at $181 billion on Wednesday, about $3 billion behind Bezos. That was before a nearly eight percent stock rally Thursday by Tesla, strongly outpacing Amazon’s gains for the day and vaulting Musk to the rank of world’s richest. The wealth estimates are largely based on Musk and Bezos’ stock holdings in Tesla and Amazon, respectively.

“How strange,” Musk tweeted, responding to a tweet about the news. “Well, back to work ...,” he added.

(Bezos owns The Washington Post.)