Not the richest, but the second richest according to current estimates. Second to Jeff Bezos only, who also massively increased his wealth this year.
https://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/ (I had to disable essentially all content blockers to get this site to load.)
WOW. I knew their stock price has been like a rocket but I dont follow them closely. ( They were over priced ages ago ).
But $660B! Shouldn't that make Elon Musk the richest person on earth? I remember he owns 20% of Tesla?
Edit: Turns out Jeff Bezos [1], even after the divorce settlement , has a net worth of ~$187B. Elon is at $146B. Until SpaceX's IPO at ~$100B [2], which will add roughly $54B to his net worth... he will be the richest on Earth.
I mean I dont know how Tesla is a $600B company, but I sure as hell think SpaceX is worth a lot more than $100B.
[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/sergeiklebnikov/2020/12/19/elon...
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddawkins/2020/10/23/elon-mu...