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Elon Musk surpasses Jeff Bezos as world’s richest person

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Elon Musk briefly overtook Jeff Bezos as the world's wealthiest person for the first time, based on calculations using the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
The South Africa-born engineer’s net worth was $188.5 billion at 10:15 a.m. in New York, $1.5 billion more than Bezos, who has held the top spot since October 2017. As chief executive officer of Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, Musk is also a rival to Bezos, owner of Blue Origin LLC, in the private space race.
Musk and Bezos have left other billionaires in their rearview mirrors.
The world's third-richest person, Bill Gates, was worth $132 billion.