Elon Musk flies past Jeff Bezos, once again world's richest man by far

Warren Buffet is worth $103 billion, Mark Zuckerberg is worth $121 billion, Bill Gates is worth $130 billion, Jeff Bezos is worth $197 billion... but Elon Musk beats them all with a net worth of $236 billion.

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The SpaceX and Tesla founder is now worth an incredible $236,000,000,000 compared to his filthy peasant friends worth less than $200 billion. Musk has been battling Amazon and Blue Origin founder -- and recent space explorer, Jeff Bezos -- for the top spot. Between Musk, Bezos, and Bernard Arnault there's some incredible wealth... but why the sudden surge for Musk?

$60 billion has been added onto Musk's net worth this year thanks to Tesla stock increases, as well as a recent share sale at SpaceX which saw the company valued at over $100 billion. This added another $11 billion to the net worth of Musk and helped bump him over $200B+ net worth.

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