With his fortune reaching $ 195 billion, Tesla and SpaceX Senior Manager Elon Musk took the first place, surpassing Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos, who is the world's richest. Amazon's founder Jeff Bezos has been on the list of the world's richest people since 2017. Elon Musk, who had a fortune of about $ 30 billion in January 2020, started a rapid rise in April after the coronavirus was declared an epidemic all over the world. This rise of Elon Musk, who added wealth to his wealth, continued steadily until November, surpassing Microsoft's Founder Bill Gates with $ 128 billion. Continuing his rise in 2021, Musk surpassed Bezos, who had been at the top for a long time with his fortune of 195 billion dollars in the first week of 2021, and obtained the title of "the richest person in the world". Tesla, the pupil of Musk's pupil Tesla Musk, seems to be the company that played the biggest role in the rise in Musk's fortune. Tesla, working on electric and autonomous vehicle technology, has become one of the most important companies in a short time, despite being one of the projects that Musk did not start very hopefully. Confessing that Tesla was considering selling the company to Apple due to the troubles that they developed the Model 3 series, Musk stated that Apple's senior manager did not even make an appointment to Musk. Following the decision to include Tesla shares in the S&P 500 index, which includes the largest 500 American companies, the company has accelerated its rise and currently has a market value of $ 816 billion. According to the data on the Clean Technica site, Tesla ranks first among the best-selling electric vehicles in the USA in 2020. Founded in 2003, the company increased its sales by more than 35 percent worldwide in the last year, reaching 500 thousand electronic vehicles. Musk's space travel: SpaceX SpaceX, founded by Musk in 2002 to "colonize Mars", is the first to launch a spacecraft Dragon into space, put it into orbit and successfully bring this spacecraft back to earth on December 9, 2010. The private sector went down in history as a company. SpaceX became the first private company to perform a manned mission in this sense with Crew Dragon, which it sent to space on May 30, 2020. While SpaceX is one of the companies that has increased Elon Musk's popularity around the world, one of the biggest reasons for this is the statements of the US billionaire about the trips to Mars from the world. Last year, after a question from Twitter, Musk said that the trip to Mars (return ticket free) could be made for less than $ 500,000, and attracted attention all over the world. Musk's chip project for the human brain: Neuralink Seeing the future of humanity in a future where artificial intelligence and the human brain are combined, Musk says that thanks to the "Neuralink" project, which is called the attempt to decode the brain's signals with electrodes connected to strings thinner than hair, people will not even need to talk in the future. About the Neuralink project, which is one of the most discussed projects all over the world, Musk said, "I think it is not possible to eliminate the need for language in 5 or 10 years with chips planned to be installed in the brain because there are very new technologies." he used the expressions. Musk continues to work on the project that has been successfully tested on the brain of a pig in recent months and suggests that the project will be applied to the human brain in the near future.
Elon Musk topped the list of the richest people in the world
