Elon Musk — the man behind SpaceX and Tesla — has just become the richest person in the world, surpassing CEO Amazon Jeff Bezos, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which is a comprehensive ranking of the 500 wealthiest people in the world.
Elon Musk is 49 years old, and has profited from Tesla's wild rise in more ways than one. On top of his 20% stake in the company, the entrepreneur is also sitting on roughly $42 billion in unrealized paper gains based on vested stock options. These are securities stemming from grants he was given in 2012 and 2018 — and the 2018 grant was the largest pay deal ever reached between a corporate board and a CEO
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