{"id":7834,"date":"2021-09-29T08:26:13","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T08:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=7834"},"modified":"2021-09-29T08:26:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T08:26:13","slug":"elon-musk-replaces-amazons-jeff-bezos-as-worlds-richest-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/?p=7834","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk replaces Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezos as world\u2019s richest person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Tesla\u2019s CEO Elon Musk replaced Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezos as world\u2019s richest person, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, with a net worth of $213 billion, sent s short email to Jeff Bezoz which read, \u201cI\u2019m sending a giant statue of the digit \u20182\u2019 to Jeffrey B., along with a silver medal,\u201d Musk wrote.<\/p>\n<p>However, the jibe was not  surprising, Mush had earlier taken to Twitter to playfully label Bezos a \u201ccopycat\u201d twice.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, when Amazon announced plans to launch internet-beaming satellites in competition with Musk\u2019s SpaceX and again in June 2020, when Amazon acquired self-driving car company Zoox, which is taking on Tesla.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bloomberg index-real-time data , Jeff Bezos has a net worth of $197 billion, followed by the chairman of Louis Vuitton (LVMH), Bernard Arnault with a net worth of $160 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg stands on fourth followed by Bill Gates at fifth place in the index with a net worth of $132 billion and $128 billion respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2020, Musk\u2019s worth was $24.6 billion, nearly $90 billion less than Bezos at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Bezos became the first-ever person in August 2020, to be worth $200 billion as Amazon stock soared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Tesla\u2019s CEO Elon Musk replaced Amazon\u2019s Jeff Bezos as world\u2019s richest person, according to Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Musk, with a net worth of $213 billion, sent s short email to Jeff Bezoz which read, \u201cI\u2019m sending a giant statue of the digit \u20182\u2019 to Jeffrey B., along with a silver medal,\u201d Musk wrote. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7835,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7836,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7834\/revisions\/7836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncrfrontlinenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}