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Elon Musk overtakes Amazon's Jeff Bezos to become world's richest person

Jeff Bezos's reign at the top of the big business billionaire charts was surprisingly short lived as electric car pioneer and space explorer Elon Musk.

Tesla and SpaceX brainbox Elon Musk has overtaken Amazon giant Jeff Bezos as the richest man on the planet. Musk is now worth a whopping $184 billion, overtaking Amazon entrepreneur Bezos' highly enviable wealth of $183 billion. An increase in Tesla's share price on Thursday, January 7, pushed Musk past Jeff Bezos. Bezos had been the world's richest person since 2017. Musk is a Tesla Inc chief and billionaire entrepreneur, known for pioneering commercial space travel and electric cars, among other innovations.

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