OREANDA-NEWS. The fortune of entrepreneur Ilon Mask increased over one hour on Wednesday by $ 2.3 billion due to the increase in market capitalization of his company Tesla. This is evidenced by the calculations of the Bloomberg business news agency.

According to the New York Stock Exchange, Tesla stock quotes at the close of trading on Wednesday rose $ 14.09 (2.49%) to $ 580.99. After that, this indicator increased by another 12% to $ 649. This led to the growth of the state of the Mask to about $ 36 billion, of which about $ 14.6 billion falls on its stake in SpaceX.

As of January 29, Forbes estimated Musk’s fortune at $ 32.3 billion. In the list of the richest people in the world compiled by the magazine, Musk rose from 28th to 23rd place. The main investments of the Mask are related to alternative electric power and commercial space services. The entrepreneur is also the head of SpaceX. It uses its own launch vehicles to launch payloads into orbit and is developing a new spacecraft.