Elon Musk reacts to becoming world's richest person: 'How strange'
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Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk became the world's richest person Thursday, and his reaction is about what one might expect from someone who gained a few billion dollars in wealth on top of his 12-figure net worth.
"How strange," Musk tweeted in response to the news Thursday morning. He followed that up by saying "Well, back to work..."
—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2021Musk - already an extraordinarily rich man at the end of 2019 - saw his wealth grow by more than $150 billion over the past year, according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index. His wealth more than quintupled during a pandemic that has killed more than 300,000 people in the US and put millions more out of work.
And a Thursday morning stock rally was what allowed Musk to overtake Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as the wealthiest person on the planet. Bezos had held the title since 2017.
Read more: Tesla bounced back better than ever after the worst mistake Elon Musk ever madeThe entrepreneur also benefits from a highly complex compensation package that awards him stock when Tesla achieves certain goals. That made Musk the highest-paid executive in 2020.
Musk claims to have ambitious plans for spending his extraordinary wealth. On Thursday, he changed the pinned post on his Twitter profile to a 2018 tweet promising to dedicate his money to problems on Earth and to establishing a colony on Mars.—Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 12, 2018
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