{"id":190738,"date":"2025-10-02T08:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T04:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=190738"},"modified":"2025-10-02T11:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T07:55:07","slug":"elon-musk-becomes-1st-person-in-world-with-a-500b-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/190738\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk becomes 1st person in World with a $500B fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become the first person in the world whose net worth has reached $500 billion.<\/p>\n<p>According to Forbes billionaire list, Musk&rsquo;s wealth has hit the $500 billion mark. Stock market data shows that by the close of trading, Musk&rsquo;s net worth stood at $499.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Musk&rsquo;s wealth has grown due to the rise in Tesla&rsquo;s stock price as well as the increased valuations of his artificial intelligence company xAI and space exploration company SpaceX. Tesla shares have risen roughly 14% over the year.<\/p>\n<p>On the Forbes billionaire list, Musk is followed by Oracle founder Larry Ellison and Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n<p>Musk&rsquo;s fortune, which surpassed $100 billion in August 2020, first earned him the title of the world&rsquo;s richest person in January 2021, with a net worth of around $190 billion.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla CEO Elon Musk has become the first person in the world whose net worth has reached $500 billion. According to Forbes billionaire list, Musk&rsquo;s wealth has hit the $500 billion mark. Stock market data shows that by the close of trading, Musk&rsquo;s net worth stood at $499.1 billion. Musk&rsquo;s wealth has grown due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":190646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98,47,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en","category-society","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190742,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190738\/revisions\/190742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}