Amazon’s Jeff Bezos unseats Elon Musk as world’s richest person, after Tesla stocks slump
- Musk lost his position atop the Bloomberg Billionaires Index to Jeff Bezos after shares in Tesla tumbled 7.2 per cent on Monday
- Musk now has a net worth of US$197.7 billion; Bezos’ fortune is US$200.3 billion. It’s the first time Bezos topped Bloomberg’s ranking since 2021
For the first time in more than nine months, Elon Musk is no longer the world’s richest person.
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Musk’s wealth could take a further hit after a Delaware judge struck down his US$55 billion pay package at Tesla, where he’s chief executive. The decision took the side of an investor who’d challenged Musk’s compensation plan, which had been the largest in history.
The vast majority of Bezos’s fortune comes from his 9 per cent stake in Amazon. He’s the online retailer’s largest shareholder, even after unloading 50 million shares worth about US$8.5 billion last month.
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But a massive rally in Tesla shares left Bezos jockeying with Musk for much of 2021 for the top spot. Late that year, he fell way behind, and didn’t regain the No. 1 position until now.