Elon Musk reaches second place in the list of world’s richest people by beating Bill Gates

New Delhi: Elon Musk became the second richest person in the world by beating Bill Gates. Even though the world is going through an economic downturn due to the Corona transition, the business of Elon Musk, head of American Car maker Company ‘Tesla’, has made a big jump. He has reached second place in the list of the world’s richest people, beating Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

Musk First time on Second place

Musk rose to the second position for the first time in the list of billionaires released by Bloomberg. According to the list, Musk owns assets of $ 127.9 billion, or about Rs 9,474 billion, while Gates has assets of $ 127.7 billion, or Rs 9,459 billion.

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100 billion dollars increased assets

Musk has made a big jump in terms of property growth. After January 2021, his wealth has increased by $ 100 billion i.e. Rs 7,407 billion. With this, he has joined the fastest growing record among the 500 billionaires of the world.

Tesla shares Surge

Electric car maker Tesla stock rose on Monday. This brought the company’s market capitalization to $ 500 billion, or Rs 37,036 billion. The surge increased Musk’s wealth and moved him to second place.

Musk was at number 35 in January

In January, Elon Musk was ranked 35th on the worldwide rich list. At the same time, Bill Gates was defeated in the year 2017 by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos at number two. Now he has fallen back to number three. Let me tell you that Bill Gates donated a lot of money to poor countries last year for improving the health services and education system. Apart from this, during the current pandemic covid-19, they are doing a lot of work to get rid of the crisis. Due to this also their wealth has decreased. At the same time, Elon Musk has made a quantum leap in space recently.

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At present, a look at the world’s rich: –

1- Jeff Bezos-CEO Amazon- 13,481 billion ($ 182 billion)

2- Elon Musk – head of Tesla – 9,474 billion ($ 127.9 billion)

3- Bill Gates – Microsoft co-founder – 9,459 billion ($ 127.7 billion)