ElonMusk passes Bezos as world’s richest person

SANFRANCISCO » TeslaCEOElon Musk likely became the world’s richest person on Thursday, surpassing Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos after an earlymorning stock rally. Bloomberg’s Billionaires Index estimatedMusk’s networth at $181 billion onWednesday, about $3 billion behind Bezos. That was before a 5% stock rally Thursday morning by Tesla, strongly outpacing Amazon’s gains for the morning and likely vaulting Musk to the rank of world’s richest. The wealth estimates are largely based on Musk and Bezos’ stock holdings in Tesla and Amazon, respectively.

“Howstrange,” Musk tweeted, responding to a tweet about the news. “Well, back towork ...,” he added.