Currently occupying the top spot is Twitter’s controversial owner Elon Musk. Musk, according to PayWizard, hauls in an estimated $384,615,384.62 per day, which means that he’s making over $200,000 per minute, even while he sleeps. Most cannot even wrap their head around that kind of money. According to CBS News, much of his wealth comes from the stock he owns (and sometimes sells) in the companies he’s founded, primarily Tesla and SpaceX. Musk’s also got a few billion in assets from Boring Company, a very dull-sounding organization that constructs tunnels. Plus, there’s Twitter, which might, in time, come to earn him some serious pocket change.
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If you’re pea-green with envy, though, keep in mind that Musk has known loss and failure, too — of a sort. In early 2020, he was worth a mere $25.6 billion, something that granted him mid-card billionaire status at best. By late 2021, however, his personal wealth soared to $340 billion, but he’s now dropped back to a more, um, modest $239 billion, as per Bloomberg’s latest check. This means that he lost about 35% of his wealth in a single year, and yet it ultimately still didn’t knock him off the top spot as the world’s richest person. Needless to say, Musk will probably continue to be the No. 1 draft pick in any fantasy billionaire’s league.
