Elon Musk went around Bill Gates in the ranking of the richest people of the planet

The head of Tesla and the general director of SpaceX, Ilon Musk, bypassed the founder of Microsoft Bill Gates in the ranking of the richest people of the planet Bloomberg Billionaires Index (BBI), taking the second line.

Against the backdrop of the next take-off of Tesla shares (almost $ 595 per paper) and the company's capitalization (now about $ 500 billion), the entrepreneur's condition reached $ 127.9 billion since January 2020, when it was located in Bloomberg in 35, it grew by $ 100 billion.

The first place is still the founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos ($ 182 billion). The state of Gates, which dropped to the third line, is estimated at $ 128 billion.

On December 21, Tesla shares will be included in the S&P 500 index, which allow the 500 largest publicly traded corporations in the United States, showing a profit of at least four quarters in a row. Tesla in October published the best reporting in her history - her profit over the third quarter of the year increased 2.3 times in comparison with the same period of 2019, the company has shown profitability for the fifth quarter in a row. While the other automakers collapsed in 2020, Tesla, following the results of the pandemic year, can go into plus after many years of losses, WSJ wrote .

The company will become the largest in capitalization by adding to the index in its history, and so far it is possible that it will be included there in parts.

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Tesla capitalization first exceeded $ 100 billion only in early February 2020. Investors and skeptics grabbed their heads and did not understand how a company that only became profitable for a couple of months can cost more than giant auto industry. Nine months later, Tesla costs almost $ 500 billion - and it seems that this is not the limit. But absolute leadership among auto producers in market capitalization does not yet guarantee that we will all drive on its electric vehicles. We talked about the reasons for explosive growth and what will happen to the company’s business in one of the recent issues of our technology building, as well as in the special issue of the project “Russian norms!”.