Exactly four years ago on July 27, 2017. Managed Jeff Bezos founder of the Amazon empire of e-commerce. From the defeat of Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, who was the richest man in the world for years and years.
Yesterday, the era of Bezos ended. Just as Bezos defeated Bill Gates three years ago, Elon Musk defeated Jeff Bezos yesterday, and Elon Musk became the richest man in the world at the beginning of 2021.
And the story of Elon Musk and how he began his life and his journey to become one of the world's richest people. Actually, a story that needs to be talked about in a very recent article.
Elon Musk defeats Jeff Bezos
On Thursday, January 7, 2021, American businessman Elon Musk became the richest man in the world with a fortune exceeding 185 billion dollars. When Elon Musk managed to remove the American billionaire and CEO of "Amazon" Jeff Bezos. He has remained on the throne of the richest man in the world since 2017.
Elon Musk vs. Jeff Bezos
The thing that caused the dizzying jump in Bezos' fortune was the skyrocketing value of shares of the electric car company, Tesla. Elon Musk owns 18% of it in the stock exchange (about 4.9%). On Wednesday, that is, two days after ending the first trading session in 2021. With this, his profits would be 3.4 percent, and this percentage was enough to displace Bezos and take Musk's place.
Tesla had developed a plan and forecast of the number of cars that will be delivered for the year 2020, and they were about 481,261, and perhaps these expectations are due to the Corona epidemic that has swept the world recently and the cause of the economic collapse in many countries of the world. But Tesla delivered about 499,550 cars in the past year, or 2020, a number that no one expected.
Elon Musk with a SpaceX missile
Despite the Corona pandemic, Elon Musk, with his intelligence, was able to overcome the global crisis and amass an astronomical fortune estimated at 146 billion dollars in the last 12 months only.
And from the strange information that you may hear for the first time, Norway is the highest country in the world in terms of the number of Tesla cars that drive on its streets.