Before him, the title of the richest man in the world had been held by only 3 people till two decades ago and now he has surpassed all the three to come first.
TechCrunch reports that since March 2020, the share price of his company Tesla has risen by 830%.
Jeff Bezos has been the world's richest man since 2017, surpassing Amazon's founder and chief executive officer (CEO) yesterday.
According to the Bloomberg Index, Elon Musk's assets reached ارب 188 billion on Thursday, with his Tesla shares trading up more than 5%.
However, the American magazine Forbes later reported that after being the richest man in the world for some time, Elon Musk came back to the second place.
The Forbes report said that Tesla's shares rose 7.9 percent, after which Elon Musk's total wealth increased by 9. 9.8 billion, but later his total assets reached 5 175.2 billion.
The report said that Jeff Bezos returned to number one with a net worth of 18 186.8 billion.
Today (January 8), however, Elon Musk is far behind the founder of Amazon and is now the richest man in the world.
According to the Bloomberg Index, Elon Musk is now the second richest person in the world after moving up to second place, with a net worth of 195 195 billion.
According to the index, his wealth has increased by 13 13 billion for the last time, while it has increased by 25 25 billion since the previous day.
Jeff Bezos, on the other hand, who is now the second richest man in the world, has a net worth of 185 185 billion and an increase of 1. 1.29 billion.
Elon Musk's rise to the position of the world's richest man is interesting because he has risen to the top so quickly in just one year.
In January 2020, he was ranked 35th on the list of the richest people in the world, but in August he was ranked fourth, then in September he was ranked third and then in November he was ranked second.
The main reason for the increase in Elon Musk's assets is the rise in Tesla's share price, which has reached a market value of 77 774 billion.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates also has assets of 13 134 billion and is now the third richest person in the world.
The world's fourth richest man is Bernard Arnault of France with 116 billion, while Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is at number five with 2 102 billion.
