New York, (EFE).- The executive director of Tesla, founder of SpaceX and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, recovered this Monday the title of the richest person in the world, thus dethroning the president and executive director of the luxurious LVMH, the Frenchman Bernard Arnault, according to Forbes.
The 52-year-old billionaire managed to regain his job after a rebound in Tesla’s stock value, according to Forbes’ real-time billionaires list.
Musk’s net worth earned $4.1 billion today, increasing his net worth by more than 1.75% to $240.7 billion.
The Musk Effect
At 1:00 p.m. local time (1700 GMT) shares of the electric vehicle company rose almost 2.5%, thus recovering from a fall last week after Tesla’s business results.
Today, Musk is in the news for having changed the blue bird logo of Twitter -a social network that he bought for 44,000 million dollars last year- for an “X”, and although this fact has not influenced his fortune, it has helped him to continue being in the spotlight of the news.
For his part, the assets of Arnault, the 74-year-old owner of Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Tiffany -and who avoids flashes as much as Musk seeks them-, fell 1% -which is equivalent to 4,400 million dollars- to 234,900 million, due to the fall in the value of LVMH shares.
Arnault dethroned Musk on this list last December and since then Musk has clinched the title from time to time, but always for a short period of time.
Last month the two met for lunch at a luxury hotel in Paris.
The third place in this list of the richest people in the world is held by the founder of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, with a fortune of 151,900 million dollars.