Jakarta, CNN Indonesia —
Founder of SpaceX Elon Musk managed to widen his gap as the world’s richest man with his rivals Jeff Bezos version of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Quotes CNN BusinessThis happened after his fortune skyrocketed to US$222 billion or equivalent to Rp. 3.1 quadrillion (exchange rate of Rp. 14,216 per US dollar).
His fortune was up US $ 10.6 million after the sale of secondary shares to investors last week. Now his spaceflight startup is worth US$100 billion.
This wealth is far above Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who now sits in the second position of the world’s richest person with a fortune of US $ 191.6 billion or equivalent to Rp. 2.7 quadrillion. Elon Musk even tweeted the second prize emoji in Bezos’ tweet today.
Not only SpaceX, Musk’s wealth has also been boosted by another veteran company, Tesla. The car company’s shares have increased by 743 percent since 2020.
In fact, Musk does not get a penny from the position he holds. But the shares he owns are now worth US$22 billion.
Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are known as the two richest men in the world who competed with each other in space flight. Elon Musk’s SpaceX even provided its inaugural space tour with Inspiration 4 last September.
SpaceX also won a tender to work with NASA and the US Military to fly the most powerful rocket ever.
Meanwhile Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin and billionaire Virgin Richard Branson went on a spacewalk last summer.
But unfortunately, even though they are the richest people in the world, they are still reluctant to fulfill their tax obligations.
The June ProPublica report shows billionaires like Jeff Bezos, to Elon Musk still pay a small amount of tax compared to other Americans.
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