{"id":118138,"date":"2021-01-07T13:22:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T21:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/elon-musk-is-now-the-richest-person-in-the-world-passing-jeff-bezos"},"modified":"2021-01-07T13:22:35","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T21:22:35","slug":"elon-musk-is-now-the-richest-person-in-the-world-passing-jeff-bezos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/elon-musk-is-now-the-richest-person-in-the-world-passing-jeff-bezos","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is now the richest person in the world, passing Jeff Bezos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/elon-musk-is-now-the-richest-person-in-the-world-passing-jeff-bezos2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/elon-musk\/\">Elon Musk<\/a> just became the richest person in the world, with a net worth of more than $185 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday\u2019s increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=TSLA\">Tesla\u2019s<\/a> share price pushed Musk past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/jeff-bezos\/\">Jeff Bezos<\/a>, who had been the richest person since 2017 and is currently worth about $184 billion. Musk\u2019s wealth surge over the past year marks the fastest rise to the top of the rich list in history \u2014 and is a dramatic financial turnaround for the famed entrepreneur who just 18 months ago was in the headlines for Tesla\u2019s rapid cash burn and his personal leverage against the company\u2019s stock.<\/p>\n<p>Musk started 2020 worth about $27 billion, and was barely in the top 50 richest people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk just became the richest person in the world, with a net worth of more than $185 billion. Thursday\u2019s increase in Tesla\u2019s share price pushed Musk past Jeff Bezos, who had been the richest person since 2017 and is currently worth about $184 billion. Musk\u2019s wealth surge over the past year marks the fastest [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}