The CEO of electric car maker Tesla and space company SpaceX, Elon Musk, is with an estimated net worth of 188, 5 billion US Dollar the richest man in the world. This comes from Thursday’s Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Accordingly, Musk has replaced Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the richest man in the world, whose fortune is currently around 187 billion dollars with an increase of 72 should be billions of dollars last year. Bezos had headed Bloomberg’s billionaires list since October 2017.

Tesla asset base Musk’s fortune is billionaire’s list within the last year of 153, $ 7 billion grew to 188, $ 5 billion. He benefited above all from the strong price increase of the Tesla share, the value of which rose by about 700 percent in the same period. On Friday morning the value of a Tesla paper is 691, 20 Euro at currently rising exchange rate.

Musk should continue to expand his fortune in the coming years, provided he succeeds in increasing Tesla’s sales and profits. Tesla shareholders had approved 2018 a generous compensation package that Musk will receive in the form of twelve stock options upon reaching certain milestones at Tesla. So far, Musk has qualified for four of them. However, the payment is only made after all twelve goals have been achieved. This could then bring him several 10 billion dollars.

Who is wealthier? The ranking of billionaires on lists like the Bloomberg Billionaires Index or the Forbes Billionaires List is based mainly on publicly available information about ownership in the form of stocks and real estate and are therefore estimated values.

The ratings on the individual lists, such as the Forbes Billionaires List, vary accordingly. Here Jeff Bezos is with 184, 6 billion dollars ahead of Elon Musk with 177, $ 2 billion and the French entrepreneur Bernard Arnault with his family, who is the richest European with a fortune of 154 , Should own 2 billion. Ex-Microsoft boss Bill Gates is in fourth place with 154, 3 billion dollars.

(olb)