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BBC: Elon Musk becomes world’s second richest person

By BBC.

Published Nov. 25, 2020. Updated Nov. 25 at 12:57 am

(FILES) In this file photo taken on Sept. 17, 2018, Elon Musk arrives to announce that Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa will be the first private passenger who will fly around the Moon aboard the SpaceX BFR launch vehicle, at the SpaceX headquarters and rocket factory in Hawthorne, California.

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Tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has topped Microsoft founder Bill Gates to become the world’s second richest man after a meteoric rise in his personal fortune. Mr Musk’s net worth jumped by $7.2bn (£5.4bn) to $128bn after shares in his car firm Tesla surged. Only Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is richer, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.