Elon Musk rakes in the BILLIONS, closes in on world’s richest man

From a personal net worth point of view, South Africa-born Elon Musk won’t look back on 2022 with much fondness, BUT …

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However, 2023 has gotten off to a much, much better start for the 51-year-old from Pretoria.

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As reported by The South African website, Musk entered the Guinness World Record books when he lost $200 billion late last year, becoming the first person in history to lose that amount of money.

NOT the sort of record you want!

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Musk also lost his No 1 spot in the world’s richest person list.

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While he’s still at No 2 in that pecking order after exactly four weeks of 2023, Elon Musk has added a cool $36.5 billion to his net worth this year.

In rand terms that’s R625 billion!

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His total net worth now stands at $174 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index which takes a daily look at the world’s richest people.

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France’s Bernard Arnault remains the new richest person in the world, ‘only’ $19 billion ahead of Musk and they are followed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos who rounds out the Top 3.

The rest of the Top 10, in order, are: Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Steve Ballmer and Carlos Slim.

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Below, the Top 10 richest people in the world as of 3 February 2023.