OREANDA-NEWS. The head of SpaceX and Tesla, Elon Musk, for the first time climbed to second place in the Forbes billionaire list Real-Time. According to the rating, on December 7, the entrepreneur’s fortune grew by 1.6 billion US dollars, and now it is 144.7 billion.

At the same time, in the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Musk has been occupying the second line since the end of November. According to Bloomberg, the businessman’s fortune grew by 1.84 billion, to 157 billion dollars.

Musk owns about 21 % of Tesla shares, which have risen in price more than seven times since the beginning of 2020.

Top five richest people according to Forbes are the following: Jeff Bezos (185.4 billion dollars), Elon Musk (144.7 billion), Bernard Arnault (144.3 billion), Bill Gates (118.8 billion), Mark Zuckerberg (104 billion US dollars).