Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday surpassed Amazon's Jeff Bezos to become the richest man in the world, with a net worth of over $185 billion.  Musk surpassed Jeff Bezos on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the world's 500 wealthiest people, thanks to a 4.8% rally in the electric carmaker's share price Thursday. 

After becoming World's richest person, Elon Musk finds it "strange". On Thursday, a Twitter account called 'Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley' shared news to the 49-year-old business magnate becoming the world's richest person and earned a wry response from Mr Musk himself. "How strange," Elon Musk responded, and followed it up by saying, "Well, back to work ..."

How strange

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 7, 2021

Over the past year, Elon Musk's net worth increased by more than $150 billion in possibly the fastest bout of wealth creation in history. In a Tweet in 2018, he explained what he wants to do with the money. He had written, "About half my money is intended to help problems on Earth & half to help establish a self-sustaining city on Mars to ensure the continuation of life (of all species) in case Earth gets hit by a meteor like the dinosaurs or WW3 happens & we destroy ourselves."

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