{"id":301127,"date":"2021-01-07T19:41:22","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T18:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=301127"},"modified":"2021-01-07T19:42:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T18:42:54","slug":"elon-musk-overtakes-jeff-bezos-now-worlds-wealthiest-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=301127","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk overtakes Jeff Bezos, now world&#8217;s wealthiest person"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Elon Musk, Tesla CEO is now the world\u2019s wealthiest person.<\/p>\n<p>The South African-born mogul overtakes Amazon boss Jeff Bezos.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, CNBC estimated his wealth at $185 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Bezos, 56, has a net worth of $184 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Musk, 49, the major shareholder Tesla, benefited from Tesla\u2019s surging share price.<\/p>\n<p>Shares of the electric car company surged 5.9 percent to $800.43 in late morning trading, lifting the company\u2019s market capitalization above $750 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Musk is also the founder, CEO, CTO and chief designer of SpaceX; founder of The Boring Company; co-founder of Neuralink; and co-founder and initial co-chairman of OpenAI.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk, Tesla CEO is now the world\u2019s wealthiest person. The South African-born mogul overtakes Amazon boss Jeff Bezos. On Thursday, CNBC estimated his wealth at $185 billion. Bezos, 56, has a net worth of $184 billion. Musk, 49, the major shareholder Tesla, benefited from Tesla\u2019s surging share price. Shares of the electric car company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":301128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,2242,9012,9766,354,9661],"class_list":["post-301127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-amazon","tag-elon-musk","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-south-africa","tag-tesla"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/301128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}