Why Elon Musk’s fortunes keep soaring

Below is the latest real-time update of the richest persons on earth, led by Tesla chief and Space entrepreneur Elon Musk. Source: Forbes.

Musk was named the 2021 Person of the Year by TIME Magazine citing his embodiment of the technological shifts but also troubling trends reshaping people’s lives.

	1	Elon Musk	$252.4 B	▶ $13.0 B | -4.91%	50	Tesla, SpaceX	United States
	2	Jeff Bezos	$195.8 B	▶ $2.5 B | -1.27%	57	Amazon	United States
	3	Bernard Arnault & family	$193.6 B	▶ $288 M | -0.15%	72	LVMH	France
	4	Bill Gates	$138.6 B	▶ $635 M | -0.46%	66	Microsoft	United States
	5	Larry Ellison	$133.9 B	▶ $1.7 B | -1.29%	77	software	United States
	6	Larry Page	$124.7 B	▶ $1.6 B | -1.27%	48	Google	United States
	7	Sergey Brin	$120.2 B	▶ $1.5 B | -1.26%	48	Google	United States
	8	Mark Zuckerberg	$119.2 B	▶ $1.2 B | 1.03%	37	Facebook	United States
	9	Steve Ballmer	$107.2 B	▶ $325 M | -0.30%	65	Microsoft	United States
	10	Warren Buffett	$105.6 B	▶ $764 M | 0.73%	91	Berkshire Hathaway	United States
	11.	Francoise Bettencourt Meyers & family	$92.8 B	▶ $640 M | -0.69%	68	L’Oréal	France
	12.	Mukesh Ambani	$90.6 B	▶ $1.8 B | -2.00%	64	diversified	India
	13	Gautam Adani & family	$80.4 B	▶ $781 M | -0.96%	59	infrastructure, commodities	India
	14	Carlos Slim Helu & family	$77.6 B	▶ $1.0 B | -1.33%	81	telecom	Mexico
	15	Zhong Shanshan	$76.8 B	▶ $83 M | -0.11%	67	beverages, pharmaceuticals	China
	16	Amancio Ortega	$74.3 B	▶ $333 M | -0.45%	85	Zara	Spain
	17	Michael Bloomberg	$70.0 B	$0	79	Bloomberg LP	United States
	18	Jim Walton	$66.1 B	▶ $313 M | 0.48%	73	Walmart	United States
	19	Alice Walton	$65.2 B	▶ $311 M | 0.48%	72	Walmart	United States
	20	Rob Walton	$64.9 B	▶ $308 M | 0.48%	77	Walmart	United States
	21	Phil Knight & family	$60.7 B	▶ $939 M | -1.52%	83	Nike	United States
	22	Zhang Yiming	$59.4 B	$0	37	TikTok	China
	23	Robin Zeng	$59.3 B	▶ $1.7 B | 2.87%	52	batteries	Hong Kong
	24	MacKenzie Scott	$57.1 B	▶ $843 M | -1.46%	51	Amazon	United States
	25	Michael Dell	$56.9 B	▶ $681 M | -1.18%	56	Dell computers	United States