Biography & Early Wealth Journey

As I type this article, Zuckerberg is worth $187 billion. Elon is worth $180 billion.

Today, Musk and Zuck's diverging net worths allowed Mark Zuckerberg to become the world's third richest person. In the process, he just drop-kicked Elon to #4. Elon's rank on the list of the world's richest people has not been this low since August 2020, when he first became the fourth richest person in the world. Amazingly, back in August 2020, all it took was $85 billion to be the world's fourth richest person. Today, that net worth would rank you roughly #17.

Back in 2020, when Elon reached #4, the three people ahead of him were:

  • Mark Zuckerberg with $100 billion
  • Bill Gates with $120 billion
  • Jeff Bezos with #190 billion

Primary Income Streams & Multi-Million Contracts

One year and two months after Elon hit #4 with a net worth of $85 billion, his fortune briefly topped $340 billion. Not only did that make him BY FAR the richest person in the world, it also made him the richest human being of all time, topping John D. Rockefeller's 80+ year inflation-adjusted previous record.

So maybe we should count Elon down, but certainly not out… just yet.

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