Telsa and Twitter owner Elon Musk added about $21 billion to his profits over the seven days since last week, according to a Bloomberg-monitored index.
According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Musk’s fortune increased by $21 billion between Jan. 19 and 26. It now stands at around $156 billion.
Recent filings show Musk holds about 423,622,000 shares in electric vehicle maker Tesla worth some $53.87 billion as of Jan. 19. But the total value of Musk’s holdings jumped to $67.89 billion after Thursday’s market closing, according to the Dow Jones Market Data Group tracker, as reported by Fox Business.
Musk, according to Forbes, is currently worth about $177 billion and No. 2 in the world after Bernard Arnault and his family. He also has significant assets and liabilities as the CEO of SpaceX and Twitter, founder of The Boring Company, and the co-founder of Neuralink and ChatGPT maker OpenAI….