Elon Musk’s Net Worth Zooms Past Warren Buffett’s, Bloomberg Reports

Elon Musk’s Net Worth Zooms Past Warren Buffett’s, Bloomberg Reports
Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory groundbreaking ceremony in Shanghai on Jan. 7, 2019. Aly Song/Reuters
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Elon Musk’s net worth soared past Warren Buffett on Friday as the chief executive officer of Tesla Inc became the seventh richest person in the world, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Musk’s fortune rose by $6.07 billion on Friday, Bloomberg News said, following a 10.8 percent jump in the electric carmaker’s stock.