Elon Musk has a net worth of $219 billion as of 2022, making him the richest person in the world.
He surpassed Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who went from number two on the 2021 chart to number one in 2022. While his real-time net worth fluctuates, Forbes' Realtime
Billionaires List and Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Musk still tops both lists as the richest person.
Musk is the founder of SpaceX and the co-founder of PayPal and brain technology company Neuralink, among other companies.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the opening of the Berlin Brandenburg Tesla factory in Gruenheide, Germany, on March 22, 2022.
