WEB PAGE: Forbes has reported that Elon Musk, the world’s richest person, is now halfway to becoming the first-ever trillionaire.
The Tesla and SpaceX chief briefly saw his fortune climb to $500.1 billion on Wednesday before settling back to $499.1 billion.
Forbes’ “Real-Time Billionaires” index ranked Oracle’s Larry Ellison in second place with $350.7 billion, followed by Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg at $245.8 billion.
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Musk, 54, first made his millions in the late 1990s after selling a software company to Compaq for more than $300 million.
He later co-founded a venture that merged with PayPal, before launching SpaceX in 2002 and joining Tesla as chairman in 2004.