SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk poses on the red carpet of the Axel Springer Award 2020 on December 01, 2020 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Britta Pedersen-Pool/Getty Images) Move over, Jeff Bezos.
There's officially a new richest person on the planet.And it's Elon Musk.Musk, 49, now has a net worth of $184 billion, surpassing Bezos' wealth, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The news comes as shares of Tesla, of which Musk is the co-founder and CEO, continue to surge in 2021, following a precipitous run in 2020 that saw the value of the company rise more than 700%.Musk responded to the news on Twitter, tweeting "how strange" and that it was time to get "back to work."AdvertisementMusk also pinned a tweet to his account from.