{"id":58324,"date":"2021-01-08T00:25:41","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T16:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/bloomberg-elon-musk-surpasses-jeff-bezos-to-become-worlds-richest-person-2\/"},"modified":"2021-01-08T00:25:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T16:25:41","slug":"bloomberg-elon-musk-surpasses-jeff-bezos-to-become-worlds-richest-person-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/bloomberg-elon-musk-surpasses-jeff-bezos-to-become-worlds-richest-person-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloomberg: Elon Musk Surpasses Jeff Bezos to Become World\u2019s Richest Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk, the outspoken entrepreneur behind <strong>Tesla Inc.<\/strong> and <strong>SpaceX<\/strong>, is now the richest person on the planet. A 4.8% rally in the electric carmaker\u2019s share price Thursday boosted Musk past <strong>Amazon.com Inc.<\/strong> founder&nbsp;Jeff Bezos&nbsp;on the&nbsp;Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the world\u2019s 500 wealthiest people.<\/p>\n<p>The South Africa-born engineer\u2019s net worth was $188.5 billion at 10:15 a.m. in New York, $1.5 billion more than Bezos, who has held the top spot since October 2017. As chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, Musk is also a rival to Bezos, owner of Blue Origin LLC, in the private space race.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong><em>Read more from Bloomberg &gt;&gt;&gt;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, the outspoken entrepreneur behind Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, is now the richest person on the planet. A 4.8% rally in the electric carmaker\u2019s share price Thursday boosted Musk past Amazon.com Inc. founder&nbsp;Jeff Bezos&nbsp;on the&nbsp;Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the world\u2019s 500 wealthiest people. The South Africa-born engineer\u2019s net worth was $188.5 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58324"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}