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Elon Musk is a South-African born Canadian-American engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur, born in 1971. He was a co-founder of PayPal, which was sold to Ebay for $1.5 billion. He then founded Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and Tesla Motors. He is chief executive and chief designer at SpaceX and CEO and head of product design at Tesla and chairman of Solar City. Musk purchased Twitter in September 2022.

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4 Apr, 2023

Musk no longer world’s richest person

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Musk loses the top spot on Forbes’ 2023 billionaires list to Bernard Arnault, CEO of LVMH, of France. Arnault gained $53 billion, the biggest gain of any billionaire in 2022, taking his fortune $211 billion, $31 billion more than Musk, according to Forbes’ calculations.