Elon Musk net woth reaches $335 billion, 9 times more than Nepal’s GDP

Elon Musk is now worth three times more than investing wizard Warren Buffet, just days after the Tesla CEO became the world’s first person to hit $300 billion in wealth, according to Insider.

The tech mogul’s fortune is now $335 billion, after it jumped by another $24 billion on Monday, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. In comparison, Berkshire Hathaway CEO Buffet is worth $104 billion.

Musk, 50, is also worth more than the entire gross domestic product of his home country, South Africa, which hauled in $301.9 billion last year, per data from the World Bank, according to Insider.

His recent boost in wealth was driven by an 8.5% rise in Tesla’s shares, Bloomberg first reported, as his net worth soared by a total $165 billion in 2021. The multibillionaire owned about 22.4% of the company at the start of the year.

Last week, a 13% leap in Tesla’s stock netted Musk an additional $36 billion — the largest single-day surge Bloomberg has ever recorded — after news emerged that Hertz ordered 100,000 Teslas, Insider reported.

Insider reported that Musk now sits at a comfortable $142 billion above the world’s second-richest man, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who according to Bloomberg’s index is worth $193 billion.

Tesla’s stock has skyrocketed 65.6% since the start of the year, despite dips in March and May.

On Sunday, Musk tweeted he would sell his shares in the electric automaker and spend $6 billion to alleviate world hunger, as long as the World Food Programme could prove that the money would solve the global hunger crisis, according to Insider.