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Since Elon Musk snatched Bernard Arnault The richest person title in the world, the South African millionaire has remained in that position retaining a considerable difference with respect to second place. The high point of his fortune It was recorded after Donald Trump’s electoral victory, when Musk’s heritage broke the roof of the 432,000 million dollars overcoming all records.
However, in 2025 his financial empire is going through one of the greatest falls in its recent history. Musk has lost 80,000 million of dollars of your assets so far this year. Paradoxically, the reason that made him reach the peak of his fortune, is the same as can make it lose His status as a richest man in the world: consequences of his passage through politics.
According to him Bloomberg Millionaire Index At present it is estimated that your heritage is around 357,000 million dollars. It may seem unattainable fortune, but other technological titans such as Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg step on their heels driven by the rise of Investments in AI.
Tesla’s falls and its impact on Musk’s fortune
Musk’s relationship with Tesla has become a Roller Financial Mountain. In it Second quarter of 2025the company experienced A fall 12% in their income, reaching 22,496 million dollars. In addition, the net profit of the company suffered a decrease of 16%, placing 1,172 million dollars in that period.
The Tesla problems They have been so notorious that the trust of their shareholders has also resent And its price has dropped 20% so far this year, after 2024 It would almost double and the company will reach a maximum stock market capitalization of 1.4 billion dollars. These fluctuations have made Musk’s fortune, with Tesla as the main source of income, has lost more than 80,000 million dollars.
Some master moves that Musk It has taken out of the sleeve They have caused their personal fortune not to bleed at the same rate as the capitalization of Tesla. An example was the Purchase of X by XAIElon Musk’s company. With this movement, the millionaire made a financial trilero changing x pocket To increase capitalization of Xai and diluting accumulated losses By X.
Musk’s relay
The US economy is suffering a situation truly complicated Making bobbin by the constant regulatory bands for Trump’s tariff war, its commercial balance and the wars of Gaza and Ukraine.
All that instability has turned stock markets into little less than a lottery in which a few days are obtained Milmillionaire gains And the next one is lost Everything achieved.
In that context, Musk is not the only one who has suffered a serious Varapalo in his fortune. Jeff Bezos, for example, went from being the second richest person in the world at the beginning of the year to occupy the fourth, and Bill Gates, A historical In the first positions of this list, has fallen to the fifteenth put in recent months.
However, a determining factor by which Elon Musk could cease to be the richest person in the world in the coming months does not depend so much on their financial movements or the quotes of their companies, but on how good they are going To others.
Larry Ellison, for example, is following the reverse path that Musk. Oracle, the company that founded, has not stopped earning money with the infrastructure of servers in which IA models are developed. Only in 2025, the New York millionaire has increased its fortune by 102,000 million dollars, unseatting Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg to place itself as the second greatest fortune in the world.
Today, just under 60,000 million separate Musk and Ellison in the competition for the throne of the world’s greatest fortune. It is a barbarity of money, but with the rhythm at which losses and benefits of new companies and quoteda bad afternoon and Musk would lose his throne in favor of his good friend Larry Ellison.
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